Hello Love,

Happy Friday to you! I've been getting messages all morning from friends that this has been one helluva week. I feel that.

Deep breath, anyone? Big exhale... aaaaaaaaah...

Keep doing that.

I'm popping in your inbox with a bit of fun and excitement today!

I'll be heading to the desert next week and doing something I haven't done in over 9 years. I'm attending Joshua Tree Music Festival as a guest artist doing LIVE painting!

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From the JTMF website:

"Just a stone’s throw from the otherworldly Joshua Tree National Park, Joshua Tree Music Festival has been drawing music lovers to the mystical Mojave desert since 2003. The four-day festivals are immersive, community-centric, family friendly, conscientiously inclusive experiences. Attendees are seasoned festival goers and first-timers alike, a passionate community coming together with a mission to experience social interaction on a deeper level, and foster positive, life-changing moments."

This is a returning, not just to a place or activity that I love doing, but to a part of myself that needs remembering. (There's nothing quite like creating in the open air, with live music pumping, dancing humans everywhere.)

Music has always been a spiritual medicine for me. From my first Grateful Dead concert in 1992, to working behind the scenes at many festivals 'back in the day', this is where I blossomed into the heart-wide open, freedom is for everyone, Love is the answer, person you know today.

So going back to touch this energy, meet other artists, dance with humans known and unknown... the timing feels potent.

I'm ready to remember that part of who I am, renew that sense of possibility and wonder, shake off the heaviness of news and too much screen time. Connect with the truth, that most people are kind, fun-loving, generous souls, when we boil it all down.

I'm excited and just slightly nervous (going to a festival at 48 is a lot different than 20 something). But I know she's in there.

Sharing this today for 2 reasons:
1. There are still tickets available and this festival is top tier awesome.

2. Is there a part of yourself that needs remembering? Some essence of joy, love, creativity that you've put on a shelf for too long, when remembered, could give you a wellspring of energy and a feeling of being home inside yourself?

Where can you revisit that essence and reignite a spark of life force energy? It may be just the medicine you need to blossom into the next chapter.

My wish for us all is that those parts of us that are wildly unique and creative get explored once more.

Thanks for taking a little trip down memory lane with me. I'll be sure to take lots of photos and have lots of fun!

See you on the flip side.

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