First post!

So here it is....my very first post!
This is my first official blog, although it is not my first experience in posting in an online journal. I'm not sure if anyone will ever read this, but it would be nice if someone did. I'll try to keep my words intelligent and eloquent...for your benefit as well as mine. But I am inexperienced to a point, so forgive me if need be.

At the moment, I have little else to say, except that life is quite hectic (as it is for the rest of the world). So I'll post one of my favorite poems, the namesake for this blog:

The Rhodora

On Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower

IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,
To please the desert and the sluggish brook.
The purple petals, fallen in the pool,
Made the black water with their beauty gay;
Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,
And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being:
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never thought to ask, I never knew:
But, in my simple ignorance, suppose
The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.

---Ralph Waldo Emerson


Now let us see where that takes us. Good night!