Hello!!! Happy Tuesday to you. The leaves are changing, fall tours are either in swing or are looming and the temperatures are starting to dip. My team and I have been busy working on a new membership program on Patreon for you and it’s almost time for it to go LIVE. You will be the first…
Blog
A Sparkle Load (aka a crap load) of Uses for Coconut Oil
Coconut oil is the rock star of oils and I’m totally a groupie. This oil is amazing for a bazillion different reasons and it can be used in whatever number is greater than bazillion number of ways. It works for everything from cooking, frying, baking, moisturizing, cleaning your teeth, sunscreen and deodorant, just to name…
Why it’s important to seek out the musicians that speak our language
I hope you are having the most amazing summer ever. I’ve been so busy seeing so much music that I haven’t been keeping up with connecting with all of you via this blog and for that I apologize. My commitment to you is that I will keep in touch more regularly. You are VERY important…
Five more things I’ve learned from being a human for awhile
Last week I shared with you that laughter truly is medicine, when life gives you lemons, it’s best to turn it into psychedelic lemonade, that life is much better without so much stuff, that seeing live music is important to your health and why it’s important to exercise your body consistently in a fun way….
Five things I’ve learned while traveling in a meat suit for 42 years
My birthday was on Sunday. I’ve accomplished something really great. I survived 42 years on earth! Even though I think that I’m 28 in my head, the truth is that I’ve been in this meat suit of mine for much longer. During my time experiencing life in this vehicle I’ve been given, I’ve used and…
Why the good life starts on your plate. Recipes included!
Summer festival and tour season is underway. Yay!!!! When I was craving a life that felt as good as life feels at a festival, I didn’t know where to begin. The easiest place for me was to start changing the foods on my plate from fried and processed to naturally colorful and whole. I thought,…
Well that was an interesting choice
I’m sitting with some friends at a co-working space in Denver, Colorado and I was stumped on what to write about today. I asked them what they’d like to learn from me and one of the ladies said, “I’d like to know how you re-frame ‘bad’ thoughts into ones that aren’t’ bad’.” This subject came up…
Why I wear sparkles
I’m back in the states inspired with so much stuff to share with all of you. By slowing down my doing and upping up my be-ing, I ended up doing so much without forcing. Another thing that happened that I didn’t expect was that I got bit by a bug. The dance bug! While in Costa Rica every…
Nikhil P. Yerawadekar & Low Mentality come to Vermont to spread their message of love
Nikhil P. Yerawadekar and Low Mentality make some of the best music coming out of NYC. Not the best Afrobeat, not the best post-highlife, not the best South African psychedelic disco. Some of the best music, period. – Saxon Baird, Afropop Worldwide After reading a testimonial about a band like that, I can’t help but…
Why musicians are the chefs serving up the most important meals of our lives
You’ve heard me say that music is the soul food that I need in order to survive and now there’s research that proves it to be true. We as music fanatics knew it all along, but it’s nice to know it’s really true and to be able to explain why it’s so important to our survival to…