January 21, 2012
Join me on my epic journey to embrace all that life has to offer! We get to design our lives. We create our world. My world is filled with love, light, laughter and beauty. I designed it that way.
This is positive life affirming music! Send your “intellect packing”! Dare to admit you “bake to lick the batter”. Allow yourself to “Shnug” people. Get Groovy;-) Proclaim that you and all people are “The Light of the World!”. Help me manifest a huge party at the Rose Bowl with me singing on the Jumbotron! Go Green. Experience and pass on “Unexpected Kindness”. Bask in your “Kitschy-ness”. Never settle. Take the Cash AND the Prize! “Find the light, See the Light, Free the Light, BE the Light” And don’t forget to “Just Breathe”.
LIFE is the Party. That party doesn’t start later, or happen after death. (Although there is much partying on the spirit side of life;-) The Party is happening NOW. The Party IS LIFE! I hope you will let me inspire you with my gifts to BE who you want to be in this world!
Click on the CD Cover to LISTEN and buy this music. It is available for download on CD baby and itunes. (hard copy available only on CD baby)
January 21, 2012
My latest music project “Life is the Party” is now out on CDbaby and itunes! The music production is “off the charts” amazing and I’ve never been happier with how CC Thomas Jr. captured my voice. Still, I keep getting requests for just me and the piano. That is where my songs start, at least most of them. And the proof of a good song is in its “NAKED” form. So here it is. No studio sound. No cool production. No killer background vocals(my favorite thing to create), no wall of sound. Just me, my muse (Yamaha C7 Grand) and my soul mate daughter.
This song (track 4) was the first song I wrote on this project. It is my core message to the world and my healing song for myself. I am the child on the hill who was hiding her light. I joke that I have been under a rock for 20 years. This was the beginning of my emerging from that place.
My daughter, Elizabeth, is a huge part of my healing process. In my quest to assure that she will never find herself under that rock, I made a decision to show her what it looks like to shine in the full glory of my brilliance. Somewhere along the way, I stopped doing it for her and allowed myself to BE who I really am.
I am not there yet. But I am right where I need to be. I am a work in progress and loving the journey now more than ever. We get to design our lives. We create our world. My world is filled with love, light, laughter and beauty. I designed it that way.
LIFE is the Party. That party doesn’t start later, or happen after death. (Although there is much partying on the spirit side of life;-) The Party IS LIFE! I hope you will let me inspire you with my gifts to BE who you want to be in this world!
January 17, 2012
“You Know My Heart” is a song I wrote about my husband AND about God. It is from my Album “Speak the Word”. This music video was directed, shot and produced in 2003 by Kimberley Clayton Blaine. I didn’t know it at the time, but she showed me a whole new passion for creativity with a video camera. As I begin to create and produce music videos for my new music project, “Life is the Party”, I thought it would be appropriate to honor my first music video which was a GIFT from an amazing woman I am blessed to call my friend.
January 6, 2012
This is the 4th year Elizabeth and I performed the Sisters number from White Christmas as a gift for Larry, my husband. The first year it was a complete surprise. We decided to make it a family tradition every year since and record it so we can see Elizabeth grow into the beautiful young lady she is. I put her in charge and there is no stress to make it perfect. If we aren’t having fun, we’re not doing it. And this year we had more fun than ever. What do you do each year as a tradition? We want to know!
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