I am still thrilled when a new writer, mechanic, dancer, artist, carpenter, plumber, ventriloquist or in fact any skill, comes onto the stage.

In other words, when someone starts to perform an act, a service, or to make or create in a field they’ve entered.

It is like the opening of a flower from a long-watched winter-surviving bud.

Now it’s your turn. To do just this, or to think of another flower.

Ha! ‘Tis an omen. A good one.