About last night...

Setting: a dining room table that seven people are gathered around, six of them have instruments. There is a blueberry cheesecake and mango sticky rice on the table. A pitty bull dog is drooling and waiting for scraps, little yips turning into a song of howls for more mango.

The song Zombie by the cranberries begins to be played, one instrument at a time until I am singing the words, carefully, clearly and then with all of my power. Tears are streaming down my face as I sing this anti-war song:

🎶 with their tanks
and their bombs
and their bombs
and their guns,
in your head,
in your head
they are fighting! 🎶

I've been performing in some capacity since I was 3 years old. But sitting in a dining room, finding and amplifying the groove together, singing for each other, is the most intimate of performances. It lit me up!

Have you ever sang to your friends or family in this way? Or is the best music found on a stage?

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Three Good things :

-stopping to find orange colored flowers for my altar at a roadside shop. Found gorgeous orange orchids for 20 baht

-the same little shop had monkoot! One of my favorite fruits. We bought a kilo and when we got home we ate them in less than 5 minutes. Happy mammals making happy fruit eating sound

-at the same shop we found lychee and when I asked the aunties about it, they offered a taste and begin peeling them for me to try, we drove away on motorbike, hair in the wind, lychee on my tongue.

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Three Good things (mango season edition)

1- mangoes are most often free, or 10 baht per kilo
2- husband peeling and chopping faster than I can eat them, holding juicy mango slices in both hands as I chomp, juice running everywhere
3- saving and planting the very best of the season, 4 new trees coming up

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Doing my best to recognize the good when I experience it:

1- the delightful feeling of motorbiking on a sunny day, wind in my hair, passing a body of water, the breeze cools all around us.

2- appreciating the people here who are calling out bullshit and lifting up those that are struggling. If ever there was a week I want to quit fedi, it's this week. Please be kind.

3- meditating with Buddha at my favorite temple I hear the sound of someone imitating the birds calling around us. I peek to see a young father, restless baby in his arms. He is calming her by simply holding her, walking gently, listening to the environment and responding with his own calls, teaching his daughter the language of birds, birds calling to let us know it's safe here, no predators around.

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1-my cat Lucky was yowling away and I looked at her and said, what's the matter? Come here! She listened and ran into my arms, let me hold her like a baby, and began purring and calming with every little touch I offered. I may not be able to calm the world, but I can calm myself and my cat, and that's good.

2- a couple days off from baking, and I'm already dreaming up new cookie flavors, dark chocolate mango coming soon!

3- almost have all of the tracks for an edm mantra remix album, featuring several mastodonites. Very excited to hear their different takes on my vocal arrangement. Very excited to share once we find someone that can master these tracks.

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Take a moment to breathe with banana trees

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