Getting started and staying there

Oh, hi friends!

I think we underestimate the engine.

Once you start, you can go and go and go.

Finding the keys is the tricky part.

Starting a new hobby, or changing careers, or learning how to be a runner or a traveler or a birder. It all takes some version of starting. But the engine is easy.

I’m thinking about this as my musical theatre workshop wraps up for the summer. (My 10-minute musical is being presented tonight *big gulp* and we are back next year to write full-length musicals!) 

Last September, if you told me about all the songs I’d have to write and feedback I’d receive and both how out of depth and so at home I’d feel, I’d say…uhh, are you serious?! Isn’t it safer to hide way over here, in what I know I can do? 

But class started, and every Monday and every assignment became the engine. And you just kinda…go. 

There might not be a workshop for the things you want to do. But you might be able to find a class, or a friend-of-a-friend, or a YouTube how-to series, or a book telling you how to get started. (Or you could ask me, and I’ll try to help!)

Keys! That’s the secret.

Let’s fly into the week.

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A Sondheim quote about writing that also applies to life:
"Put a show on. Write something. Put it on. Write something. Put it on. Write something. Put it on. Everybody gets discouraged. Just go do it. Write something. Put it on. Write something. Put it on."

From . Always speaks to me!

What books did you love as a kid? This was one of mine — The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. I remember saying, at some point, that it was my FAVORITE book (somehow beating my Roald Dahl shelf?!). 

Well, of course, they turned this into a new musical! (We saw it last night and it was very well-done, with an excellent cast. Btw, there is a lottery on the TodayTix app every day for $25 tickets...) 

But that got me thinking about all the books I ever loved. I’d like to pick them up again, even for a page or two, to say hello, and maybe thank you, and jog my memory of the plots and characters that long ago got fuzzy and crowded out.

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Thanks, as always, for reading.

Love, Kara