The rehearsal tonight went well, which is great. I’ll be reading a small selection of poems about my recovery journey, as the theme for the night is hearing about aspects of mental health we’re not often exposed to. I’ve also painted a very basic ink painting for each poem as all the performances in the Chronicles of Cracking Up have images on a screen to go with them. I only just found out about that so I was busy this morning! Here’s one of them, to go with a poem called Here in my house on a hill by the sea:

I’ve been very busy lately with so many projects on the go and a lot of study to get done. I would like to have written completely new material for this event, but many of the poems haven’t been heard before and certainly the collection has never been put together in this way. I’m a little bit overloaded and have spent half my day crying on the kind shoulders of various people, so I think being able to make it to the performances at all is a pretty good effort. I was very happy with the warm reception my reading was given by the other performers, so I’m feeling more confident about Friday night.

Please feel welcome to come along, you do need a ticket at a cost of $10, all the details are on the What’s On page as usual. 🙂