2020 has been a wild ride so far and is only getting more unreliable. In these times we find solace in our friends and the adventures of life. Luckily, not too soon was a beautiful adventure to Joshua Tree, specifically a place called Moon Ranch. 
At Moon Ranch there are stars, hot tubs and a strange stillness. I am from rural, middle of nowhere land and it still becomes easy to forget what things are like outside the massive human conglomerate that is Los Angeles. Anyways, we rested, cooked dinner, had wine, sang songs, took pictures and kept up the appearance of freewheeling Millenials discovering nature in a luxurious alternate reality. Regardless of appearance, the respite was much needed and I am very grateful for such great friends like Tina and Z.
Joshua Tree reminded me faintly of Burning Man and the beauty of adventuring far and wide. I am about to release a song that I wrote after coming home from my 2nd year at Burning Man. I tried many things for the first time because I am one who must learn through doing, but I also found a feeling of trust, love and hope that I had not experienced since my terrible breakup a year prior. For anyone heartbreak is absolutely wrenching, sometimes a complete ripping of the soul. Heartbreak meets writer/creator, and kills the ideals of love, trust and vision. How strange and joyous is that feeling of hope, the spring of our rebirth and the rebirth into spring. Through this experience, I was able to rediscover a part of myself I had written off as the hopeless romantic. The watching of too many noir films meshed with the reality that I had felt solely as a warm body harboring a cold, empty soul to the destiny of love. All along learning that with love and the rediscovery of finding self-love in all the conventional and unconventional ways candles to begin to light the way.
To create one must know about the light as well the dark parts of life. We must know the pain of loss and in our greatest hours of sadness, do that, which is our very nature - when music takes over for the powerlessness of only words in certain moments. So inspiring are the dark nights, yet also is the sun when it rises in the morning and spills its insatiable rays upon the floor of the universe, Earth, how plain you feel beneath the exuberant smile of the bright star sun.