Just be you.

It gets weird in my head sometimes. Does it get weird in yours? Do you find yourself worrying and looping, and stuck? 

Feels like old times again, writing again and again about how hard it is to write, and how hard it is to do anything new. So, I'm not writing about that! Here's what's coming up:

• I want to do more storytelling for people. I need practice and time, and people need stories. Not sure if this will be online, or in person, or both.
• I'm thinking about joining the community chorus for "Nature." I love this play so much; it's storytelling at its finest. 
• because Maya suggested it, I read The Big Leap. Looking for my Zone of Genius.
• I've got this wealth of fairytales and connection to stories, and I want to share that with you. Let's tell stories.

When I am not me, I am dried up and tired and old. When I am me, I choose color and texture and light. I sing loudly around the house. I dance. When I am myself, I am late-- not out of disrespect for you or your time, but because I am sure that there is time to do it all. Thank you for waiting. When I am myself, I devour books and eat too much sugar and laugh. I tell stories at bedtime and I stop criticizing. I am full of love, and hope, and sadness, and joy. I look at stars and snuggle babies. I want to chat and check in and suggest things and offer things.

When I am myself, I feel alive, useful, smart, funny. I'm also quiet, puttering around or drifting, it seems, but actually purposeful, working it out behind the scenes.

What are you like, when you are you? What makes your heart light up? What makes the dove in your chest come to life, and the bear in your belly snuggle in for more dreams?