I’m sitting in my car at the railway station car park waiting for the eldest to arrive and I’m so pleased I had this to read while I was waiting. Love all of it and extra pleased that I’m around for your next busking gigs!
I love that fact that you are out there busking! What joy it must be. Scary too, I'm sure, as it is for all us creatives who put ourselves out there in public. I've been doing that too. Publishing my first novel, promoting it to others. Still the joy I felt writing it, getting it out there, outweighs all the scary parts. Being our authentic self, as you say, is so important. And my book When Things Go Missing is about that. I am finding that I've put all the things that are important and meaningful to me in my novel, as I imagine you put all the things important to you in your music. Somehow it's all connected. Thank you for writing and sharing this. And for your music. I play piano, for myself, and there's joy in that too. Leaning into the things I love, as you advise!
Oh that's fabulous to hear! You're so right about the joy outweighing the scary parts - I feel that too. It's like the saying about the magic lying outside of our comfort zone. :) More power to your (writing AND piano-playing) elbow, Deborah!
I’m sitting in my car at the railway station car park waiting for the eldest to arrive and I’m so pleased I had this to read while I was waiting. Love all of it and extra pleased that I’m around for your next busking gigs!
Aww thanks Harriet! (For both reading it and for being there at my busking gigs! :)) x
I love that fact that you are out there busking! What joy it must be. Scary too, I'm sure, as it is for all us creatives who put ourselves out there in public. I've been doing that too. Publishing my first novel, promoting it to others. Still the joy I felt writing it, getting it out there, outweighs all the scary parts. Being our authentic self, as you say, is so important. And my book When Things Go Missing is about that. I am finding that I've put all the things that are important and meaningful to me in my novel, as I imagine you put all the things important to you in your music. Somehow it's all connected. Thank you for writing and sharing this. And for your music. I play piano, for myself, and there's joy in that too. Leaning into the things I love, as you advise!
Oh that's fabulous to hear! You're so right about the joy outweighing the scary parts - I feel that too. It's like the saying about the magic lying outside of our comfort zone. :) More power to your (writing AND piano-playing) elbow, Deborah!