I'd rather be Tidal.

I just keep feeding into power.

Here we have me practicing yoga balances -for the 32nd year of doing so. Also, working on the aspects and heavy demands of the front walkover I plan to pull off one day.

And, an amazing drink from the lovely eve of my 22nd anniversary of being married to Brad. I’m a lightweight and was drunk for several days after this one delicious drink.

We are starting to have players come in to the studio put down parts for the album. (In this pic keys are being played by the lovely Max Bergmanis who came up from LA.) It’s coming along. I’m 11 songs deep with writing and maybe one more to go. About half of the songs are expressions from the powerful and often tulmulteous experiences from the last few years. Some songs are written from my viewpoint, some I wrote from the viewpoint of my younger daughter. Other songs touch upon my personal life experience at this point- maybe best described as midlife reawakening. I know I likely won’t always feel as alive and able as I feel right now…but I might make it my life’s work to try.

Also- an image of Wild Bergamot from my garden which I planted for the bees and butterflies. The garden is slowly morphing from Summer to Fall. (I hate Fall, truth be known. I hate pumpkins and sweaters and if you love those things, no need to share.) We had some food from our garden this Summer, and some problems as well. Still could not fully beat the rats when it came to the tomatoes. ‘Bout a 50/50 split….eh..maybe 60/40, their favor. It wasn’t an amazing garden in terms of bounty, but it certainly wasn’t bad either. Still eating from it: basil, herbs, zucchinis, the occasional carrot and cucumber….

Currently I am experiencing two things: I feel a lot of power at this point in my life, like I’m a tidal wave that no one can stop. Unfortunately I also feel a lot of voices that tell me I'm just a tiny little puddle and will always be. The puddle voice is pretty convincing as it uses past and current imagery from my life to prove its point. The good news is, I tend to lean into the voice of the tidal wave these days. I don’t really have time for the puddle voice, even if it’s right, I’d rather be tidal.

The first single off the album “Healer” will be released early this Fall. I’m excited! For those of you who live locally, I’ll be playing set at Roy in SB on Thursday October 1 with some friends who have a weekly songwriters night. Save the date, come down, get some dinner and/or drinks and hear some of my new songs played live just as I wrote them (sitting on my bed with my guitar.) Also- if you are not yet following me on Insta, please do to see videos of the music being created and plenty of arm balances.

xoxo