Wellspring
Wellspring this year was a challenge to get to {my friends know a bit about it...}. Life events hit me with a whammy the weekend before, and so I could not function enough to pack. However, I made an oath last year to get on stage again, and that alone got me functioning barely enough to make it happen.
And many kudos to qorinda, stephie, merry-death, who helped me onstage with Donate Nobis Pacem {"give us peace"}. Despite all the difficulties getting together to practice it, we did and we did it. and we made mistakes that were OK nevertheless. and i'm told folks liked it and sang along and it sounded much more full than my fuzzy memory allows. And I managed to hold all the after-effects inside well enough that I didn't embarrass myself. Still, I had to grab a full mug of beer and chug it {something I normally cannot pull off} rather quickly to help me.
many thanks to daffydd and brian and aj [yes, aj, for he had tried to save a half-bottle of mead for me that got drunk when he left his post to support me on stage, and he ran interference for me when i was chugging the beer...]. Daffydd supported me by giving me choices [even when i found out that he'd approached merry-death first, lol] and withheld the usual pressures and joshing. and brian who stayed up with me a couple of nights in my insomniac state, never attempting to cross my rather whacked-out boundaries.
and to madoc, who supported me with many many many hugs. and even threw pebbles at the main act because he wanted me to go up in their stead, bless his misguided heart... and to liafal who noticed the pebble-throwing and didn't inform me of my parental neglect, but took care of it herself...
and many thanks to romandruid who finally sat down with us to give insight on how to get a study program together when "the usual methods" don't work "the way they should." she probably thinks she didn't give us much, but boy did she inspire me with a vision that i've been looking for for a long time.
and druidkirk who gave his Integrity workshop that inspired me so much. he was very kind to me last summer, despite the drama that i couldn't control. and his shock of hair does make him more approachable, as others have said. i so admire his capacity for compassion, which is a rare commodity in many places.
there's more to say but later...
And many kudos to qorinda, stephie, merry-death, who helped me onstage with Donate Nobis Pacem {"give us peace"}. Despite all the difficulties getting together to practice it, we did and we did it. and we made mistakes that were OK nevertheless. and i'm told folks liked it and sang along and it sounded much more full than my fuzzy memory allows. And I managed to hold all the after-effects inside well enough that I didn't embarrass myself. Still, I had to grab a full mug of beer and chug it {something I normally cannot pull off} rather quickly to help me.
many thanks to daffydd and brian and aj [yes, aj, for he had tried to save a half-bottle of mead for me that got drunk when he left his post to support me on stage, and he ran interference for me when i was chugging the beer...]. Daffydd supported me by giving me choices [even when i found out that he'd approached merry-death first, lol] and withheld the usual pressures and joshing. and brian who stayed up with me a couple of nights in my insomniac state, never attempting to cross my rather whacked-out boundaries.
and to madoc, who supported me with many many many hugs. and even threw pebbles at the main act because he wanted me to go up in their stead, bless his misguided heart... and to liafal who noticed the pebble-throwing and didn't inform me of my parental neglect, but took care of it herself...
and many thanks to romandruid who finally sat down with us to give insight on how to get a study program together when "the usual methods" don't work "the way they should." she probably thinks she didn't give us much, but boy did she inspire me with a vision that i've been looking for for a long time.
and druidkirk who gave his Integrity workshop that inspired me so much. he was very kind to me last summer, despite the drama that i couldn't control. and his shock of hair does make him more approachable, as others have said. i so admire his capacity for compassion, which is a rare commodity in many places.
there's more to say but later...