In hindsight, all this observance, praise, and experience of others onstage and off has been just as productive and informative as stepping out on the stage myself.  The eye must be trained and the heart must learn to heal and be still.  And out of all this, re-emergence comes.  Some doubts vanish and new insecurities peak its ugly head yet still the beckoning of the stage, microphone, and blank page stirs up some courage to experience another's pain, belt out the heartache, inspire the hopeless and encounter kindred spirits.