And Then There Are the Arts People
I admit I am an artsy person, no a real one. I paint, I write, I dance, I sing I have even been known to build sets and appear on stage. So I can call myself not only a patron of the arts but a participant.
So you'd think it would be okay for me and another fabulous lady (all the way from England) who is also both patron and participant to co-chair a task force charged with looking at the arts today in our community and coming up with recommendations for where we want to be in the year 2020.
Nope.
It seems there are "powers that be" behind the scenes who want to run this group but who don't actually want to do the work. So they pressure the chair of the oversight committee who in turns dumps all over us and meddles and pushes and so forth. We have had to back-track so many times because these "others" have changed their minds about what we should be doing that we have decided we've had enough.
Neither of us are quitters but today we decided to quit. We simply can't take it. And if it isn't fun why do it? This group has become another stress factor instead of something enjoyable and neither of us have any time for this nonsense.
The upside is that I met this lovely lady and have a new friend. It's a shame we had to go through all this crap in order to get together.
Yup, even the arts people in rural areas are weird.
So you'd think it would be okay for me and another fabulous lady (all the way from England) who is also both patron and participant to co-chair a task force charged with looking at the arts today in our community and coming up with recommendations for where we want to be in the year 2020.
Nope.
It seems there are "powers that be" behind the scenes who want to run this group but who don't actually want to do the work. So they pressure the chair of the oversight committee who in turns dumps all over us and meddles and pushes and so forth. We have had to back-track so many times because these "others" have changed their minds about what we should be doing that we have decided we've had enough.
Neither of us are quitters but today we decided to quit. We simply can't take it. And if it isn't fun why do it? This group has become another stress factor instead of something enjoyable and neither of us have any time for this nonsense.
The upside is that I met this lovely lady and have a new friend. It's a shame we had to go through all this crap in order to get together.
Yup, even the arts people in rural areas are weird.
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