I'm tired, but it was worth it.
In the future, when I go back to the Thursday night shape note singing group, I will have to leave earlier. Turns out even on a Thursday, parking in Fells Point? Not the greatest.
I got home late, I didn't get enough sleep, and I'm dragging today. But I fully plan on going back! It was a very welcoming group, and a very nice atmosphere. It's hard to say what struck me so about the performance last Saturday that made me feel like hauling up into the city on a weeknight was a good idea, but I'm glad I did.
Since starting guitar lessons almost two years ago, I feel like I'm constantly re-evaluating music's presence in my life. Making music, and making music with others, feels like a very vital kind of experience that I went utterly without for so long, that now I keep seeking it out. And, to bring up my most boringly persistent theme of late, I think part of what that means is that I have to continue to keep my focus on things outside of my work as well as within my work. I've never wanted to be a person who was wholly consumed by work; lately I feel like I've been failing at that a bit. Getting outside - of my home, of my comfort zone, of my usual experiences - was all to the good. So yes, in two weeks (next Thursday's Thanksgiving, after all!), I'll go back. Not with any definitive goal in mind other than letting myself have the experience.
I got home late, I didn't get enough sleep, and I'm dragging today. But I fully plan on going back! It was a very welcoming group, and a very nice atmosphere. It's hard to say what struck me so about the performance last Saturday that made me feel like hauling up into the city on a weeknight was a good idea, but I'm glad I did.
Since starting guitar lessons almost two years ago, I feel like I'm constantly re-evaluating music's presence in my life. Making music, and making music with others, feels like a very vital kind of experience that I went utterly without for so long, that now I keep seeking it out. And, to bring up my most boringly persistent theme of late, I think part of what that means is that I have to continue to keep my focus on things outside of my work as well as within my work. I've never wanted to be a person who was wholly consumed by work; lately I feel like I've been failing at that a bit. Getting outside - of my home, of my comfort zone, of my usual experiences - was all to the good. So yes, in two weeks (next Thursday's Thanksgiving, after all!), I'll go back. Not with any definitive goal in mind other than letting myself have the experience.