A New Dawn

This new dawn brought me into allergy season and I’m having a terrible time even though I didn’t know that I had allergies beyond orange blossoms and there are no orange blossoms around here so I thought I was safe.  Apparently there’s lots of other stuff to bark and snort about and that’s what I’m doing.  BUT…..our swimming pool opens this weekend so that’s a good sign.

Today is my last Memoir-Writing class in this contract and I only have one person signed up for the next contract.  I’m hoping more will spring forth.  I have become totally hooked on this “teaching” thing and I’m being told by members of the group I have now that they are learning a lot – more than in other classes they have taken.

I have also been out on picture-taking events with my friend Edith and it is going swimmingly.  I’m becoming hooked but I think the secret for a successful picture-taking day you need a friend to make it complete and I love our day out.  I think tomorrow I want to make my picture-taking to be about ME.  I have very few good pictures of myself and I want a few good ones to use in my brochures.  Perhaps if I take a thousand or so I’ll get a good one or two.  Fair exchange I think.

I never liked working months and months in advance because I never knew where I would be or how I would feel about it but I think it has become essential now.  I want to start a library lectures series, either entertaining ones about my travels (like I did for the woman’s group last Thursday) or writing/publishing/promoting workshops for the writing groups.  I just learned that nothing really goes on during the summer months and I’m not in BC in the winter months so I’ll start sending out letters for spring or fall lectures. One lecture per week is my goal.

There is just so much to keep up with but I’m going to concentrate on the things that work and totally ignore the ones that don’t.  Wish me luck.      Joei