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Recent reading has included Eleanor Self's You'll Never Get There If You Don't Go There, on working up the nerve to go to group yoga classes.
I can relate. While I have a reputation for being intrepid about many things, I have yet to make it to an English country dance class or a shape-note sing in this here town. It City-ness notwithstanding, Nashville remains small enough that I am likely to run into someone I know or someone who knows someone I know no matter what I am dabbling or dipping my toe into. That's daunting when you know you are on the beginner-pocked slope of the learning curve and that falling on your butt (aka borking figures or misreading intervals) is inevitable.
Then again, I've landed on my tail countless times in the studio (hello, awkward pose!) and forgotten about it within minutes. What would it be like to be as okay with all my other not-yet-theres -- to grin at the mirror and move on?
[Posted in response to a Reverb15 prompt at Kat McNally's: "I am wondering what would happen if I allowed a little more out-of-control-ness in my life. So I invite you to consider: where could you (like me) consider turning it up a few notches in the new year?"]
I can relate. While I have a reputation for being intrepid about many things, I have yet to make it to an English country dance class or a shape-note sing in this here town. It City-ness notwithstanding, Nashville remains small enough that I am likely to run into someone I know or someone who knows someone I know no matter what I am dabbling or dipping my toe into. That's daunting when you know you are on the beginner-pocked slope of the learning curve and that falling on your butt (aka borking figures or misreading intervals) is inevitable.
Then again, I've landed on my tail countless times in the studio (hello, awkward pose!) and forgotten about it within minutes. What would it be like to be as okay with all my other not-yet-theres -- to grin at the mirror and move on?
[Posted in response to a Reverb15 prompt at Kat McNally's: "I am wondering what would happen if I allowed a little more out-of-control-ness in my life. So I invite you to consider: where could you (like me) consider turning it up a few notches in the new year?"]
