Something big is happening in my life in a few months that I want to share with you all. When I started Lost at Last in 1997 in Maui, I had 2 daughters with me, 3 and 7. The band took off so fast and required so much of my time that I had to give my older daughter back to her father in Oregon for a few years. But I was a single parent with my younger one, so I decided to give her to my family in Florida.
She is 14 now, and we’ve all decided that she will come and live with me in Oregon
from this summer on. My first daughter is off to college, and now I have one starting high school. I will be a single parent again. I am both daunted and honored with the task. I definitely notice that most touring kirtan singers are not single parents, if parents at all. I am so inspired to tour and keep producing albums, but my touring will be somewhat limited over the next 4 years. At least, I plan to do kirtans in Hawaii and So Cal once a year, the Bay area and Oregon twice a year, and random trips to England and Italy. And, I will just keep the albums coming. Because, I really do have a lot of music in me. Most of the chants that I do I create the melodies and arrange myself - I am very inspired to create new chants that people can sing. I don’t have an in depth knowledge of Sanskrit - but it’s really about the Names anyway. Harinam Sankirtan Ki Jai!! (All Glories to the Holy Names!) Anyway, more than ever I feel so dependent upon the grace of God, more vulnerable and more surrendered to do what I need to do here on this planet, with gratitude and love. I feel caverns opening up inside of me, I feel my roots reaching deep into the earth. I taste the salty and the sweet. I have tears for the world’s suffering as well as my own losses and attachments as I let go and let myself glide down the river of life...towards the ocean of Bliss (which is, of course, accessible at any given moment)