This is the magic of nature. Nature can restore us to our true identity. It can heal our shame, and dissolve the blocks to our creative voice - both metaphorically and physically. We are reminded of our creative nature, which is as natural to us as breathing. But many of us, actually most of us, have been blocked from this ability thru trauma, poor education, and growing up in a world gone mad.
But it's still there. We never loose it, even when it's neglected and forgotten.
Read MoreFor many years, I’ve been quiet about my faith. I was raised Catholic, but just after confirmation, started exploring ALL other options. In college, I was surrounded by Evangelical Christians who displayed behavior 6.5 days of the week. Then for that Sunday morning, they were shined up and full of judgement for the rest of us. I spent my 20’s running as far away from Christianity as possible. I never wanted to be like those Sorority Girls who gave Jesus a bad name. But no matter what religion I researched, from Buddism to Atheism, they just weren’t it for me. I’m thankful I had the courage to seek, and ask questions, to learn and explore. This is what the 20’s is for, in my opinion.
Read MoreI wrote this song in 2017 after Hurricane Harvey finally made it's way up to New York City. I sat in a LES bar watching the rain, sick with guilt on how this very storm had ravaged my hometown. Back in Houston, most of my friends and family were dealing with devastating flooding and destruction of their homes. It was so strange to see falling so softly on NYC, as tame as a kitten by then.
Read MoreBewitched, Bothered and Bewildered am I… This was the title of the last episode of 'And Just Like That' (Sex and the City Reboot) and it made me think of this song instantly. Ironically, I never heard the song on the episode nor did I see the connection to the title, but like the plot of this reboot, filling in the blanks with my own imagination can provide some interesting insight.
I'll confess here first, that I LOVED Sex in the City back in the day. I watched the seasons as they came out, and then binge watched them for years after.
I was a single 20 something who was newly awakened to my artistic nature. Carrie Bradshaw was a hero who was making a living on her art in what seemed like the center of the Universe, New York City. Breaking the mold of step-ford wife was very real for me. This show offered a glimpse to another life.
I was living in Austin, working a corporate job, and dreaming of the day when I could paint, play music and write full time for a receptive audience. I am thankful to Carrie Bradshaw for helping me to inspire me to dream this dream.
Read MoreI first heard the idea of Infinite Patience from a Course in Miracles. I loved the idea instantly. Somehow, for an anxious person like me, it just worked like butter to calm my nerves. It set my mind in a different place. Rather than setting goal posts which I continually failed, and berated myself for failing, instead it was a quiet confidence that I would reach the goal, even if it took 9 lifetimes. What is time to an infinite universe? What is time to our souls?
Read MoreGood Bye 2021!
2021 was Bittersweet for me. I played this song all the time. My partner captured me in a moment of honestly as I played it in a beautiful old home in Philly. The sound quality is not great, and the performance is not flawless, but I wanted to share on this last day of 2021. I've always love this song, but it never made more sense that in 2021.
Read MoreKnowledge, Light, Insight.
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This song is written from my soul. It's a a part of me that has confidence from beyond my personality's scope. So much of my life I've been plagued by timidity, hesitation, and doubt. I wrote this song so long ago, I don't remember when actually.
But the lyrics were what I needed to hear today, this very hour.
“All this knowledge, all this light, all this glory and fabulous insight!”
Read MoreNo where is this more obvious than in nature where the illusions of our world are forgotten completely. The endless games of pretense and money are reduced to absolute nothingness in the face of the grandeur of time and space. The beauty and the abundance, the peace and the joy that are found in nature have nothing to do with Wall Street. In fact, it's being threatened by Wall Street.
Nature reminds us that we can't fix our problems with more striving, more money, more prestige.
We have to remember who we are in connection to this perfection that surrounds us. And that starts by just being still. That starts by listening to your own heart, your own emotions. That starts by expressing who you are right now, no judgment. That starts by facing our shadows and knowing that nothing is grander than true and real love. Can you feel that today? Have you ever felt that?
Read MoreBut I've noticed I'm starting to admire women who embrace their dark side; the ones who are tough. The ones that won't bury their heads under miles of inappropriate optimism. There is a strength in that kind of awareness.
I used to judge women like this. I’ve always been a Christian Woman in my heart. My image of myself was that I should be all love and light, to all people all the time. I was so fooled by a lot of new age beliefs. I tried relentlessly to live up to impossible ideals. It was like living half a life. I continually rejected the ugly parts of myself. I was hiding from myself because I was scared of what I’d find.
I wrote this song a year ago, when I had to return to my childhood home for a time. This was the house I grew up in and it was painful. Ghosts from my past and seemingly ancient memories haunted me in vivid colors.
I wrote this song to those express voices and personas from my past. These voices no longer express who I am anymore. But hearing them so clearly again pulled up so much that needed to be healed and laid to rest. I was hearing them, viewing them from my updated perspective. From a girl grown up who could listen with compassion to the cries of my inner child. And offer the wisdom I didn’t have back then.
Read MoreIf you are a creative, you know how hard such comments can be. It can shut down that fragile and mysterious flow which brings forth great creative gifts. But his resilience kept him composing, and we are all the richer today for it. This same resilience keeps me composing and creating everyday. Even though I can not say that we are out of danger at this moment. I can not say much with certainty anymore. But I do know that I'll keep being creative, keep living my life, keep evolving as a human, keep loving my neighbors no matter what.
Read MoreI'm so thankful for being part of 100 + years of music making and music education in the dear, dear building in Park Slope.
But I now start the part of the story that comes after you realize your dreams. No one talks about that. What happens after you get exactly what you want, and life just keeps going. It doesn't end like it does in the movies...
All of what I'm living now was not expected, in both good and bad ways.
Read MoreI wrote this full length Theme Song for Lawson Leong - Comedian, Wrestler and Co-Founder of Brooklyn Battle Comedy. I offer packages of $150 - $350 for Theme Songs - Custom made in any style, guaranteed to inspire you and your audiences to greatness. I’ve composed for Podcasts, TV Series, All manner of creative projects. Email me through my website for more information.
Read MoreWhy Do We Fall is a jazzy tune about Narcissist/Empath relationship patterns. It was a rabbit hole I went down at the time whilst having a crush on a guy who was in a toxic relationship with a girl who was treating him like dirt.
You can check it out here in video form, or buy the single for $1.
Read More"Lyndol spins a beautiful story with this bouncy, whimsical song. Jazzy, funky, inspiring, all of the lightness and magic we all need so badly right now.
The video is lovely too, a sweet and simple, indie representation of the themes of the song. Artists struggling to make ends meet, while the act to create persists. Shot on location in Brooklyn, we see the hero, actor/wrestler/comedian Lawson Leong, as he paces the streets on a mission to rid himself, quite literally, of what represents his own personal artistry, only to have it returned to him.
Read MoreSnow’s falling, outside and I’m feeling the warmth of your love as we hide inside.
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I just dropped this video last week, after a huge blizzard hit NYC on Monday. Then we got punched again with snow yesterday. It’s a cold mess, but it’s also so beautiful. I saw a sunset last night I’ve never seen before, pink sky on top of white snow. Wow!
Read MoreGoing Back to Analogue is a original instrumental set to my recent phone videos. I wanted to communicate the idea of a return to a simpler, cleaner lifestyle, closer to nature, as God intended. How this will look? That's what I'm interested in igniting hearts and imaginations towards...
Read MoreRedemption is a word that has been on my lips for months now. Singing Bob Marley's Redemption Song has been SUCH a comfort to me. It came into my mind early in the spring lockdown and I just couldn't play or sing it enough. In our solitude, my guy and I would jam on it together in my little Jersey City apartment. No matter how rough it got, we would find the fortitude we needed in that Redemption song; in those lyrics especially.
It's only now that I am finally in a place to better understand it’s power and share it with others through this impromptu video we did from one of our jam sessions.
I just learned this was Bob Marley's last song, on his last album. He performed it solo with only acoustic guitar; totally stripped of that classic Whailers’ sound. It makes his message stand out all the more. And what is that message? What does Redemption mean? It's hard to put into words.
Read MoreI wrote this song 8 years ago; my first year in Brooklyn. I was hustling hard, renting a room and barely making rent. I was surrounded by all the grossness of NYC that you have to experience on a daily basis; from pollution to rotting garbage to poverty to dilapidated living spaces that cost more than a whole house back home.But despite what surrounded me, I felt more alive than ever. I was songwriting like crazy, performing weekly and teaching music to children from all walks of life. I was so just so thankful for the experience. I really did feel a whole new level of joy and peace on the inside.
Read MoreIn 2018, I composed a song called Fairy Jam and shared it with one of my favorite Youtuber’s Magenta Pixie. Her videos had been inspiring me for a while and continue to this day; bringing me insight and upliftement even in the middle of this unprecedented turmoil.
She ended up using the track multiple times, including a recent Solstice video that fulfilled my purpose for my music on a whole new level… to uplift and inspire others to unlock their creative genius.
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