It's ALL happening!

Sitting here in a moment of pure potential, one of those moments of anticipation..... where you know something great is about to happen, it's just a matter of days, hours, or minutes. It's like that feeling I get before getting on an airplane and knowing my bags are packed and I have my ticket in hand it's just a matter of my row being called to board and off I go into possibility. Or the feeling of meeting someone new and knowing there is a connection, there just needs to be that spark to light it up. Or that feeling of seeing Dave Grohl standing across the room and thinking, "I'm about to meet one of my biggest heroes. My life is about to change. Whooaaa this is gonna be good."

All that's happened to me many times. But this moment of anticipation is about change, goals, and joy manifested by:

LIVING:

I'm going to be moving! And I've never been more excited to live in an apartment. I have enjoyed my living situation with the Kawazoes over the past two years. I am immensely grateful for their generosity and giving me a comfortable home to come back to while I explored the world. It allowed me to have so much freedom that I got to do every single thing I wanted. However it's now time for another kind of freedom and for me to get back on my own two feet a little more independently. I've decided to do this by the beach. One thing that hit me on my last trip was how truly great Southern California is and I am going to live it up in everything she has to offer me.

So in this coming week I am moving into an apartment just off of Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach! All I have to do is turn the corner, walk a few minutes to the end of the street, down some stairs, and there is the sand and the ocean and the dolphins. I'm going to buy a bike (2 bikes even! so that you can ride with me!) and some new running shoes. And I'm going to get a new turntable and listen to my vinyl records again and get my queen size mattress set up and I'm going to paint my room a pretty shade of green and get some wood furniture and wine glasses and have guests over and become friends with my new roomies. So exciting.

FUN:

Tomorrow starts the first of 10 straight days of work but I don't mind being that I've had so much free time over the past couple weeks and I've enjoyed it with all my heart. A couple Wednesdays ago I met up with Nat in Fullerton and we spent the entire afternoon at a hookah lounge smoking up some yummy organic non-tobacco hookah and eating falafels. I've been seeing lots of live music from my friends who I am so proud of to John Cruz to a band called Deigo's Umbrella that was the craziest mix of genres all in one set. Last night was reggae night and I got to dance and drink two dollar beers and feel happy.

MUSIC:

Yesterday was another source of excitement in full effect. Scott and I spent most of the day laying down tracks for the new version of Little Crow. My new album is in the works. I plan to make it a 10 song LP that we will slowly work on. The project is getting my creative mind spinning and working hard. For a couple of weeks last month I was in a dry spell musically and had little motivation to pick up my guitar, but it's all come back with a vengence. When I was younger, recorded music seemed to be something that came from some other world. But here I am doing it too.

CAREER:

Lots of doors opening up. I've started teaching yoga privately (and loooving it). I kept saying that I got my yoga certification without the intention of actually teaching, but I've been enjoying it so much. I've gotten in touch with a local music store and will soon be starting up music therapy sessions there. And my vision of my long term business goals are slowly becoming clearer.

Magic in the air. Anticipation. Excitement. Optimism.

Thank you.