I’m not sure what they are.

They might even been strawberry plants.

I just think they are swell.

So I have been telling people for ages that I love brainstorming and that’s true but I think the part of brainstorming that I really crave is the idea generation.

Especially if things are pretty open-ended, just a few parameters than you can jump off from and go madly off in all directions.

I like seeing how things fit together in new ways, seeing how old things can be used differently, how thanks can be multipurpose.

Brainstorming a solution for a specific thing is fun but letting ideas gallop is the most exciting part.

I can always get back to reality later, I don’t stay in that fantasy space.

I sure like to visit though.

Last night I have the privilege of joining a choir, a violinist, and an opera singer as part of a themed show about stories.

I was quite nervous.

Not about telling stories, per se. I mean, I still get a little nervous about that every time but this wasn’t regular nerves.

My story was being interspersed between other performances so I was dividing it into 3 sections. It was my choice to do so but I had never done that with a story before so it was a new experience.

Was I going to choose the right points to stop?

Could I bring them quickly back to my story when I took the stage again?

Would *I* be able to jump back into the mood of the story quickly?

Would the audience make the connections I needed them to make to earlier parts of the story?

This wasn’t overthinking (for a change!)

These were all valid things for me to consider, things I needed to work around or overcome in order for the story to work.

And I’m happy to say that I made the right choices and things came together marvellously.

It bodes well for my planned story show later in the year.

I don’t think I planted those there last year but I’ll take ‘em!

I completely forgot to do a post yesterday!

This is what comes of doing things out of order, I guess.

Well, I’ll have to keep that in mind from now on.

It’s funny, this feels like a very busy weekend but there’s only three fixed points in it.

This afternoon I’m hosting something online for an hour. This evening I have to go somewhere for an hour and tomorrow evening I’m performing at an event.

So I have big chunks of the day today and the whole daytime tomorrow but still my brain is feeling like ‘Well, that’s a really busy weekend.’

And I think that’s just a sign of how my time feels a bit slippery overall. I always have trouble with a mental clock and a mental calendar but over the past year it has been even more difficult to make the connection between the actual clock/calendar and the one in my brain. I’ve been caught by surprise more often than usual with things like not realizing that the 19th and Tuesday were the same day. Or forgetting that after lunch for me means after 2PM but for other people, it might mean 12:30.

I suspect that I need to spend more time figuring out a calendar and a schedule that is closer to my mental perception of both. And that I probably need more dedicated rest than I am regularly getting.

The rest is not going to come easy because this is a very busy time with setting up things for the future.

But I think that if I really focus for the next few days and then some of the next week, I will be able to get myself into a position where other people can take up more of the tasks at hand.