Serendipitous Occasions! (as of week 3)

I'm supposed to be looking for times/opportunities that my dreams are being presented to me instead of skeptically dismissing them as happenstance or coincidence.

Here are the things that have come up for me artistically since I started working The Artist's Way:

** I got referred to a puppetry gig, The Magic Paintbox
** I got referred to a second puppetry gig, Cinderella
(How I would dismiss this: the referrals come from the same person- Tim - who is married to Emily, my Artist's Way partner. Ergo they "don't count." I'm not saying they ACTUALLY don't count, I'm just giving an example of the kind of sabotage that seems to be wired into the brain.)
** I found the AVE Q audition notice on Facebook
** Dave's friend Megan mentioned the RENT audition that I'm going to tonight.
(These "don't count" because I would have been on FB anyway and... I don't have a good excuse for Rent, actually... BUT I think it is totally valid to surmise that if I weren't working The Artist's Way, I would not have followed through...)
** I got a call from Fairyland about a gig directing at their summer camp AND I was referred by a colleague that I *thought* was displeased with my work.

You may notice that they are all performance oriented... I haven't done a show in two, maybe two and a half years, which is probably a record. I wasn't really looking for shows while I was singing with Con Alma, and then I consciously took some time off to plan my wedding... but I haven't gone back yet (despite the fact that it has been a year since I got married/left Con Alma).

Dang, the transition from "day-job-with-night-time-hobby" performer to "teach-it-all-day-and-do-it-at-night" performer is way tougher than one would think. There's definitely a drain on the creative resources that I wasn't challenged by before when I wasn't passionate about my job and I could just phone it in at work.

Anyway, according to Julia Cameron (or Ju-Cam as I like to think of her~ all the celebrities are doing it!), these things have come to me because I have put my intention out into the universe and it is giving me what I want. That's a little too "The Secret" for me... but I think it's safe to say that you SEE more opportunities when you are LOOKING for them.