Imagine a theater so completely filled by a stage that it has no room at all for any seats. 

Imagine a dance company filling the entire stage, performing a ballet.  The choreographer stands at the front of the stage directing the dance.  Every member of the dance performs in coordination with each of the other dancers.

Imagine again one low, narrow door at the back, so small that you need to duck down and turn sideways to pass through it.  This door leads from the theater, through twisting hallways, up and down stairways, and eventually outside to a wide, flat yard beside the theater. 

The choreographer wants to send the company from the theater - where only he can watch them - to the wide yard outside beside the theater - where anyone who cares to can watch the dance.  But to do so, they must leave one by one through the narrow door, down the twisting halls, up and down the stairs until they reach the yard outside. 

Rather than stopping the dance inside and waiting until they all reassemble outside to restart the dance, the director makes a decision.  He will continue to direct the dance inside the theater while at the same time directing the dancers to leave one by one to go outside.  Once in the yard, he has instructed them to resume their roles in the dance.  One by one the dancers emerge and take up their roles, dancing in the yard outside - at first one, then two, then a few, then a few more.  Gradually the shape of the whole ballet emerges as the dancers continue to emerge from the theater. 

This is a good description of how the material comes to this website and what we hope it will do.  It is all swirling around inside my head but I can send out only little bits of it at a time.  So different sections arrive each week but they are all pieces of a larger, connected whole. 

Hopefully the overall picture will become more and more clear as more and more of the dancers emerge.

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