Degrees of Separation

As I was at the AGM last weekend, I found myself contemplating the fulness and richness of my life. Here I was, in Regency dress, promenading through the streets of Brooklyn, kicking up my well-shod heels in country dances, and enjoying my first JASNA AGM.

A mere four weeks earlier, I had been at Wrigley Field, in the pit for a Springsteen Concert. The next night I'd been on the rooftops, watching the action from afar, but still participating with Bruce and the crowd with every fiber of my rain-drenched being.

Whether rain-soaked and rocking on, or turban-topped and gently promenading, I was dancing to the music all around me and experiencing life in its fullest. How lucky am I to be able to indulge in both of my obsessions to the fullest! Am I one of the few who follows with full heart and all enthusiasm the two icons of their times: Jane Austen and Bruce Springsteen? Am I the sole connection between these two disparate but perhaps united artists?

Then, I came to the realization, that this unique connection - my Jane-Bruce obsession - needed to be explored through blogging and sharing my enthusiasm. Since I'm also thoroughly immersed in my new writing classes, it is high time I follow my own advice: write about that which you know best. And so it begins....