Happy New Year! Like everyone, I had ups and downs in 2015, but overall it was\u00a0a\u00a0very good\u00a0year: I successfully completed a fundraising campaign, finished my first album, made my first music video, completed my first\u00a0house concert tour, a great CD Release Concert (nearly sold out!), found a wonderfully lovely partner, experienced improved\u00a0health and wealth, and\u00a0continued\u00a0beautiful\u00a0relationships with friends and family. \u00a0I (finally) got furniture – including a dining table and chairs! \u00a0No more living like a monk, eating meals\u00a0on the floor while sitting on a yoga mat! I guess it’s time to start throwing dinner parties!! Yay!!<\/p>\n
In 2015, several of my friends lost\u00a0a parent\u00a0(Jeannine, Zoe, Ashling,\u00a0Cynthia, the Birchers, among others), bringing to mind the mortality of my own parents. \u00a0I try to be grateful for them, as well as my extended family and friends, everyday.<\/p>\n
After so many years of fabulous touring and television,\u00a0I’m back to the world of the hustling artist (no fabulous, celebrity based gig at the moment), but for the first\u00a0time I’m promoting myself as a recording and performing artist in my own right, booking my own gigs! \u00a0It’s\u00a0a major evolution for me. \u00a0It’s not easy, but is definitely and incredibly thrilling! \u00a0Having\u00a0an audience sing my song along with me? Priceless…<\/p>\n
I wish you all a most beautiful, prosperous, healthy, happy and purposeful 2016! \u00a0May all your dreams come true, may your\u00a0best\u00a0efforts\u00a0come to fruition, may your\u00a0life be an example of\u00a0love, light\u00a0and joy. \u00a0Let\u00a0there be peace on\u00a0Earth…<\/p>\n
RESOLUTION<\/p>\n
I’m a perfectionistic, workaholic. \u00a0I don’t have any vices (seriously…ask anyone who knows me), or\u00a0typical, run-of-the-mill bad habits. Given my inclinations,\u00a0I think the most useful resolution for me is to plan to take a real vacation in 2016. \u00a0I observe\u00a0my\u00a0friends and family members with “real jobs” as they talk about their annual vacations and weekends away, but never, and I mean never, make plans for myself to purposefully relax.<\/p>\n
So, I resolve that in 2016, I will make a conscious effort to not be a non-stop work machine, and to actually plan a real vacation (at least 7 days away from work – yikes!!!) sometime before October 2016.<\/p>\n
What’s your resolution?<\/p>\n
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UPCOMING EVENTS<\/p>\n
VT Trio @ California Jazz Conservatory<\/a> – January 9<\/p>\n The Musical Life Workshop<\/a> @ California Jazz Conservatory – January 10<\/p>\n <\/p>\n