WELCOME January 18, 1999 Issue

To Our Readers

Russ Gerber

Do you recall your first taste of freedom? Maybe it was the time your parents handed you the keys to the car for your first solo run. Perhaps it was living away from home for the first time, or having your own spending money from your first paycheck.

Singer/songwriter Jimmy Webb described a taste of freedom he'll never forget. It happened when he began working with Broadway producer Michael Bennett, creator of such hits as A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, and others. Webb was shown to his new office on the seventh floor of a theatrical arts complex, where Bennett told him he could do all his songwriting and "never make a mistake." By that, he meant that as far as creativity was concerned, Webb would not be judged, blamed, looked down upon, or anything else negative or restrictive. He was being given wings to write freely, and that meant the world to him.

But the sense of freedom that comes from a change of environment or from having reached some milestone in our lives is not necessarily permanent. Circumstances my change. What felt like a liberating experience the first time may not deliver the same feeling the second.

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