I've been in Chicago for nine days and spoke at a special event in front of
more than 200 people. It was just me and a microphone and in front of me was
a pretty big dance floor so the audience was not as up close as I prefer them to
be. It was good experience for me because it's an exercise in being intimate with
an audience even though the audience is far away. I heard the laughter and I had
to be conscious of staying centered when I didn't hear a thing. Trust that the audience
was staying with me. When I was ending my talk I ended with a song I sing at the end of most
of my shows. It's a song I wrote and I sing it without any musical accompaniment,
mostly because that's harder. I got a lot a positive feedback and people and I knew and
didn't know said so many nice things. The key to this 'performance' was to not be
intimidated by the amount of space between me and the audience.
I have been having a lot of fun telling jokes from a joke book. Jokes I heard years ago but had long forgotten. I'm a big fan of clean, funny and puns.
Until next time,
The beat goes on,
Cheers, Maggie
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