Creative Mornings is Four

And I went along to the party at Thomas Morton Hall in Leith. Think the last time I was there was for a ceilidh, eons ago. The event was packed, with young dancers to open the night, then the main topic - a presentation about assisted dying. Yes, an important topic and just the sort of thing you expect at a regular Creative Mornings event but didn't feel quite right for a party, and certainly not at such length. I wonder if the people organising it got a little carried away with the collaborative story and lost sight of the subject's effect on the mood. While running a publicity campaign can work on the same sort of meta level for those inside the project, whatever the campaign is for, the subject makes much more of a difference to the audience. Like taking photographs of something - a lot of the technical aspects are the same, whatever is in the frame. Things picked up again with a poet and a singer/songwriter on guitar to round off the evening. For some reason it didn't seem to work as well for me as a networking event. Perhaps that was just me - it's always a bit of a struggle steeling myself to speak to strangers, and I didn't really get into conversations with the people I knew already either. Felt a little on the edge of it all - all these creative people here, what am I doing here? I was the photographer for their first birthday, three years ago, so maybe a feeling of having gone backwards as well. Got an unexpected lift back to Porty from someone I'd never met before which was good though!