And For My Next Trick...
Ten days ago we had a retreat for the Board of Directors of Cheryl’s Dreaming Big, the non-profit Brighid started in ‘04. Along with the team building and group-engendering exercises was talk of our involvement in an upcoming city-wide arts festival. It focuses around disability in the arts and since mental illness is considered a disability, it is appropriate that we participate with the theatre component of our programming.
This is no small task; it’s not like we are just doing one or two shows and calling it a run. To kickoff our part in the festival, we are hosting an opening night benefit complete with catered food, drinks, desserts, decorations, nice clothes and maybe a swanky song or two playing in the background. (At least this is the general idea as of right now.) In all, almost 20 people comprise five or six different teams and together are going to pull this whole ting off and guess who’s coordinating it all?
No, not Brighid.
Me.
Truth be told, it’s not that far removed from the Community Center gig – orchestrating a large project with definite deadlines and objectives. The big difference now is that I am working with people to get it done rather than doing 90% of myself and that feels great.
Over the last three weeks I feel like I have not had much to write about with regard to this blog and the reasons I started it. The feedback that I’m getting from many of you is that you enjoy reading about the adventure, have become inspired to take action in your own lives and can relate to much of what I’m learning. All of that spurs me on but simultaneously, I’m thinking I may close shop here for the simple fact that I’m not really planting any flags, with respect to those who have come before me. Right now, I’m just focusing on doing a good job with this festival and applying what I learned from my last job.
That is, of course, one of the truest tests of life – learning from experience so as to not make the same mistakes twice.
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