Whew, pulled that off
Mar. 28th, 2011 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soniaAbout a year ago, I suggested a one-day "mini-festival" with a local teacher to our International folk dance group. They promptly put me in charge. Yikes! Fortunately the previous festival chair was willing to walk me through the process.
The festival was this past Saturday. Everyone who had committed to do something for the festival showed up and did it. People came from two and three hours' drive (or train ride) away, and lots of them said they had a great time. Whew!
I didn't realize how much I was worrying about the festival until it was over. Reminds me of no longer owning a car. That first month, I kept tripping over worries I could discard, from registration to maintenance tasks to insurance to possible abrupt malfunctions.
In the festival's case, I can stop worrying about no one attending, or about having to cover for some unexpected lack or surprising event, or being otherwise humiliated in front of the Balkan folk dance community. It went fine. I even, coincidentally, had an extra belt to lend one person and extra shoes to lend someone else.
For me, the hard part of creating isn't having ideas. The hard part of creating (events, articles, bowls, meals for others) is walking face-first into the unknown, taking the risk of making it concrete my own way.
The festival was this past Saturday. Everyone who had committed to do something for the festival showed up and did it. People came from two and three hours' drive (or train ride) away, and lots of them said they had a great time. Whew!
I didn't realize how much I was worrying about the festival until it was over. Reminds me of no longer owning a car. That first month, I kept tripping over worries I could discard, from registration to maintenance tasks to insurance to possible abrupt malfunctions.
In the festival's case, I can stop worrying about no one attending, or about having to cover for some unexpected lack or surprising event, or being otherwise humiliated in front of the Balkan folk dance community. It went fine. I even, coincidentally, had an extra belt to lend one person and extra shoes to lend someone else.
For me, the hard part of creating isn't having ideas. The hard part of creating (events, articles, bowls, meals for others) is walking face-first into the unknown, taking the risk of making it concrete my own way.
