At the risk of extreme redundancy, thank you (again) for your kind encouragement...beautifully expressed.

Funny thing is, I teach writing (OK, business writing - very different), and my primary approach to my students is very much what you have expressed - to encourage them to find their own "voices" (their breaths, I suppose), their personal means of expression, which I truly believe is possible even within the proscribed formats required in "formal" writing.

But it's a long leap from injecting personality into a business memo to writing poetry...I'm workin' on it.