Creating a home page that is a page

Hello,

First of all, it would be hard to overstate how wonderful I think this theme is. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I will definitely make a donation.

My question is that i would like to have my greeting page, that is the page that initially greets my visitor, to be a static page, and have the posting page of the blog be a link in the menu bar of the home page.

This way my visitor is greeted with some of my imagery and an introduction, instead of lots of text, and then can click through to my "news" page where all of my bloggery is posted. Does that make sense? Is that something that I can easily engineer through the theme settings? I can't quite figure it out, I was hoping you my be able to provide some insight. Thanks again for all your wonderful work!

Tony