If you haven’t had
a chance to see it yet, there is still a few more days to view my art
exhibition: “Persistent Creativity Everyday: a whimsical journey” at the
Corridor Gallery (in the lower level of the Recreation Centre at 4501 47a,
At the time of this
writing, I’m almost 4 weeks into the 7-week vocal/singing/songwriting program. While I really enjoy it, and there is a very
lovely supportive group of ladies participating, I have not done any singing
outside of our weekly Zoom gatherings. I
want to sing, I love to sing, and the point of joining the program was to
enhance my singing (and help with some song writing), but for some reason I
find it very difficult to actually let myself sing.
I say “let myself,” because
truthfully, the only reason why I’m not singing is because I’m not letting
myself for some reason. Fear? Lack of support in the past (I’ve had people
tell me not to sing in public before)?
Over-thinking and making it seem harder than it really is? All the above?
As part of the program, we are to create a project over the seven weeks, and while I have lots of ideas of what I could do, I decided that the best area for me to focus on is creating a small daily singing habit as that will ultimately (potentially?) lead into the other ideas I have. One has to learn to crawl before they can even consider running a marathon, so this is a good first step for me. Fingers crossed.
Beth
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