My birthday ceremony in California got canceled two days out because the airlines canceled our flight for maintenance!! I spent 48 hours in a dark place, like, c'mon Universe! I spent a year planning not to be alone on this milestone birthday and you're gonna play me like that? I sobbed on my meditation pillow searching for the lesson. It felt too late to plan anything else, not to mention I was tired of planning…

I have entered into an understanding with source energy + my higher self. I let go of my audience, I let go of who my art may or may not impact, I release the limiting belief that I am responsible for any of that. My new story is that my self-expression through art is only between myself and source energy. In fact, I no longer call it self-expression, I just call it being.

The Brothers Koren invited us to explore our Musical Cosmology at the beginning of their nine-month Songwriter’s Journey. They needed to know which songs got us singing for the first time, which songs formed our love for music, and which songs inspired us to this day. This was no easy assignment. Impossible, in fact. It angered me. I mean, COME ON! How’re you gonna ask a sound-obsessed, music worshiping human to whittle down a lifetime of crushes and love affairs with songs into a one-page document?