"Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos.  When we offer thanks to God or to another human being, gratitude gifts us with renewal, reflection, reconnection."

                                                -- Sarah Ban Breathnach

 

    "Creativity is a spiritual issue.  Any progress is made by leaps of faith, some small and some large."

                                                -- Julia Cameron

        Creating this site has been a leap of faith . . . . a Fool's leap over the edge, so to speak . . . . and there are some special people who deserve a lot of the credit for helping me make the idea a reality.  My profound gratitude and appreciation go to:

Bob, for providing the foundation . . . . the love, support and encouragement without which this site simply would not have been started, much less built;

Caitlin, who has been very good to play by herself . . . . and who has often commanded me, in that imperious tone which only a quintessential two-year-old can adopt:  "Mama - go BACK to your com-PU-ter!";

My parents, who taught me that if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well;

Neel, technical wizard of immense power, who kept the computer running and the connections up, and Renate, who is brilliant at everything from software to graphics and web design, and who helped in more ways than I can possibly describe;

My dear friends in the Comparative Tarot and Tarot-L online communities, sources of constant and invaluable inspiration;

Patricia Kelly of Pegasus Dreaming and Diane Wilkes of Tarot Passages, who were kind enough to link up early on...and in so doing, gifted me with much-needed confidence to keep writing and creating;

Carolyn and Laurie, who spent untold hours reviewing the site and then meticulously writing up their constructive criticism so I could fix the problems;

All the wonderful people who have contacted me with kind words about the reviews, thus giving me a measure of confidence that I actually had some business doing this;

David Chastain, A.G. Müller, Llewellyn Worldwide, Lo Scarabeo, and U.S. Games Systems, all of whom have been kind enough to let me use images from their tarot decks on this site;

The lively and intelligent folks at Outfront.net, whose discussions and advice have increased my knowledge of FrontPage and web design a thousand-fold;

Charles Ward, the gifted artist who created the logo and gave me my first lessons on FrontPage (I hope he does that tarot deck someday!);

My customers at the Ebay and Amazon auction sites, whose interest in Over the Edge Designs provided early financial support; and

Howard and Jeff, who first encouraged me to go for it.

    "Know this well:  success occurs in clusters and is born in generosity.  Let us form constellations of believing mirrors and move into our powers."

                                                        -- Julia Cameron