Pinnacles of 2009: Through song lyrics and days to remember

January: HAWAII

“They’ll make statues of us and put it on a mountaintop”

February: INDIA (Four weeks of ashram life. Hari Om.)

“This postcard can’t deliver what I see”

2.02 Hong Kong

2.03 Mumbai

2.06 Yoga Vidya Dahm Yoga Teacher Training

March: INDIA (Amonth of borrowed time in the heat)

“You’re karma’s best idea for me”

3.09 In the recording studio

3.11 Happy Holi!

3.12 Goa

3.19 Hampi

3.24 Pondicherry

4.02 Udaipur

4.07 Longest day ever. Mumbai - Hong Kong - Los Angeles

April: CALIFORNIA (back to the real world)

“Someday I hope to find my horizon”

4.30 First American gig of the year in Hermosa Beach

May: OREGON + ALASKA

“Can the world be more like a black and white film or photograph”

5.03 Reiki Certified

5.13-18 Portland

5.17 Jimi’s Graduation. MBA.

5.18-24 Alaska

June: PORTLAND

“I’m free to do this and a little bit of that”

July: LOS ANGELES

“Music is my aeroplane”

7.05 Death Cab for Cutie @ the Hollywood Bowl. Fireworks!

7.12 Ray Lamontagne @ the Hollywood Bowl

7.23 Blink 182’s first show back in Las Vegas

August: NEW YORK

“The city won’t let me pretend”

8.02 Blink 182 in Jersey. Front row surprise. Confetti. Smile.

September: HAWAII

“There’s so much in this world to make me believe”

9.30 Pearl Jam @ Gibson Amphitheater

October: THE MIDDLE

“It’s the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me”

10.01 Kudos Uncle Ted

10.23 Ben Gibbard @ the El Rey

10.28 Foo Fighters Storytellers

November: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

“Hold your own, know your name, go your own way”

11.11-15 Music Therapy Conference in San Diego

11.15 A burrito at Sombreros!

11.17 Them Crooked Vultures @ the Wiltern

11.21 Released my first album: Our Little India

11.22 30

December: PLANET EARTH

“A moment, a love, a dream, a laugh, a kiss, a cry, our rights, our wrongs, a moment”

12.13 A lucky library book

12.03,12,&17 Acoustic Sessions in Redondo Beach

12.26 Reunited with beautiful Aussies in Hawaii

I feel as though I lived ten years of experience in this one. I travelled approximately 26,000 miles by airplane. The huge changes I made in 2008 paid off well for me to live this one as a year in transition. Nothing felt permanent, and one of my biggest accomplishments of the year was being better at okay with that. I learned such a tremendous amount about the world and about myself that I looked back on 2009 feeling a bit exhausted, but excited to enter a new decade with greater awareness and greater potential to live my best.

Thank you to every single person who was a part of it. Thank YOU.