Last night when I was telling stories onstage, my husband captured this perfect ‘getting the precise details’ gesture of mine. I recognized how it feels from how it looks.
In my element
Artsy Fun
Storytelling week!
Last week, I was organizing events for other people’s fun.
I had fun, too, of course but when you have to remember all the details, it’s hard to really sink into what you’re doing.
This week, though, I’m telling stories at two different festivals and I’ll have to do is show up and tell.
I don’t have to figure anything out.
I don’t have to remember any details.
I don’t have to make sure we have supplies.
I just have to tell stories.
I’m really looking forward to it!
I have a creative project to do!
Well, truth be told, I have a lot of creative projects to do but I have selected a main focus of creative WORK for the next 6 months.
I’m going to make a weekly Zine.
I’ve selected this as part of the Alphabet Superset challenge that Cam at Struthless has designed.
I’m just working out the parameters of what will ‘count’ as a Zine each week now.
I feel really excited about this.
Artsy Fun All Week!
This week I taught a creativity workshop, took a drawing workshop and a Zine workshop, and I told a story on stage at a public event.
Today, I’m going to an ‘Art Crawl’ where people can drop by our organization’s table to try a couple of activities.
I just need to add some writing to my day today and this will be a perfectly creative week.
As often happens, my fears were for naught*
The workshop yesterday was delightful. Exactly what I needed.
And even though I didn’t completely understand what was going on, the instructor’s approach made it safe to feel that way.
It was a really interested exploration of the patterns of our inner worlds – not our mental space but our sense of our bodies from the inside.
*To be clear though, these fears of being the only one who doesn’t get it were not irrational. That exact scenario has played out MANY times.