Dear Friend🌹 🎶
November News 🎶🌹
In this month's newsletter*Winter Sparkle - a big sparkly invitation to a
big sparkly concert on 11th Dec
*Blog - Courageous Stupidity - creating on the edge!
*Autumn Soup - a poem inspired by Autumn + Inspiration Corner
*Choirs - what, where, when to come and sing
*Coaching - ready to bring on a vocal revolution in your world?
let's talk!🌹 🎶 Courageous Stupidity 🎶🌹Courage is Knowing It Might Hurt and Doing it Anyway: Stupidity is the Same.That is Why Life is Hard - Jeremy Goldberg It's also why life is funny, quirky, exciting, playful and maddeningly uncertain!
In any kind of creative endeavour, including singing, we have to be willing to look stupid. In martial arts classes, the first thing we learned was how to fall - weeks of roly-polys building the courage to face the inevitability of stupidity. After a while, it became quite fun and not so scary to fall. Which is the same with singing or any other risk-taking adventure.
There's a wonderful laugh that rings through a choir when we all make a big clanger. The liberation is palpable - it's such a relief to be human together. Then we have another go and it's better because we've let go of something that was getting in the way - which oftentimes is trying too hard.
Singing often involves letting go of what is in the way - unhelpful thoughts, judgements, conditioning, fears - including the fear of looking stupid. It does take courage, but the reward is that we get closer to the essence of who we are - like Michaelangelo revealing the angel in the stone as he carved. As we let go, something courageous and stupidly beautiful can be born.
Nothing in the digital world can replace the lived experience of being in a room breathing and making sounds with other people and not quite knowing how it's going to work out. When I'm out in front of people, I'm right on the courageous-stupid edge. And yes, whilst it sometimes terrifies me and I know we'd all like to run away, the Bear Hunt story teaches us we can't go round/ over/ under it, we have to go through it. Creativity happens out there on the edge - it needs to live and breathe with passion, inspiration and dynamism - that's why we love it.
So wherever you are in your explorations this November, I hope you can give yourself permission to let go a little more, breathe a little deeper, laugh a little louder, sing a little more courageously, dance a little more stupidly -
I am cheering you on!
Thank you for staying tunedLook forward to seeing and singing with you soon!Your friend in courageous stupidity,
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