People who are too dumb to figure out how to post . . .

This is not a new thread, it is an introduction  … I just can't figure out how to post on the same thread. Unless this ends up in the right place by magic, which, of course, is possible. All in all, while it is a little embarassing to have my first post say I can't figure out how to post, it is a fairly accurate indication of something. : P

Hello Everyone ~

I am Dryad and I have just arrived. I went a little pod-crazy on the day I went through them and ended up with a lot more than I expected to. I was interested to see that this was the one I chose to look at and respond to first. I’m interested in just about everything. I am chronically interested. It’s a problem as well as being, well interesting. I do tend to go chasing off after shiny objects and never get anything throughly finished.

I am a writer, primarily a poet, though I have published essays as well. I was trained as a teacher of teachers and have done a lot of teaching from preschool to university level as well as spent many years teaching creative dance. Two years ago I retired from my last incarnation as the senior editor for a large press nationally syndicated periodical and now I am writing and painting full time. I am terrible at getting things out the door, however, there is always something new - interesting and shinny - going on just a ways down the road.

As far as standing on the stage or sitting in the audience, I guess I’ve spent more time in the wings than anywhere else. I did do some preforming in college, but I can’t sing so I ended up doing speaking, sometimes over music, and dancing. I was part of a multi-ethnic preforming group for awhile. My part was telling the story of “The Song of Norway” over the top of Grieg’s music. I started with my long, blonde hair in a braid over my shoulder and I undid the bottom of the braid, clandestinely, with my hands in my lap, while telling the story. When I started to dance I whipped my head around a couple of times and it all came undone and went flying - very effective and startling. I visited Scandinavia for the first time in the summer of 2005 and had a bit of a religious experience in the fjords of Norway at 2 a.m. in the Midnight Sun.

In the end, my interest is as a writer. I like writing ballads - long ballads that tell a story. I’m not sure what on earth one does with them once one has them, but I do like writing them. The rhyming quatrain is fluid and fun to write at any rate which seems to be the end result for me anyway since I don’t seem to DO anything with anything these days.

I just bought a Celtic Harp after wanting one my entire life. So far I don't sound like Kim Robertson, but hope springs eternal.

Whatever I am writing it is inevitably too long. As you see, I can turn “Hi. I am a writer,” into two pages without even trying!

Cheers ~
Dryad 

Re: People who are too dumb to figure out how to post . . .

Ah ha! Magic is afoot I see!
~ Dryad