As of January 2024, I’m celebrating 5 years on my music creation journey. This is an important milestone, one that I am thrilled to have reached. To honor this season, I’ve taken some time to reflect and call to remembrance the steps I’ve taken on this journey thus far. I’ve also considered what the next few steps ahead could look like. And most importantly, calling my “why” to the forefront.

2023 saw a turn in the focus of my artistry, from the stream of continual song creation from 2019-2022, to a shift to live performance, visual accompaniments, and social media connections. I went to a professional recording studio for the first time. I also created some of my favorite tunes to date (looking at you, Everything’s Bars, Guud Boi, Gon’n Get It, Warped Tour Nostalgia…).

In 2024, I’m allowing myself to savor the climb I’ve accomplished so far. I’ve been invited to be a featured poet at FemmeFest 2024 and seeking to expand the community I engage with through my artistic expressions. I’m revitalizing my original mediums of poetry and narrative, with a fresh fusion of my newfound production and engineering skills. Somewhere in the mix, I’m teaching myself piano!

I am grateful…

• To the people who demonstrated that music is possible for me, who made artistry seem like a reachable experience. I am making dreams all the time.
• For the ways the crowd sang my song with me at my first open mic
• For awakening to the ways I can support and mentor fledgling artists
• For producing and mixing my first songs
• For the ways meaning of art layers upon itself like lotus petals
• For being nominated for song competitions that I was hesitant to submit to myself
• For the ways I’ve been exploring heartbreak and tense contradictions and lost love
• To all the artists who have reached out for collaborations, and all those who’ve accepted my requests
• For the ways I’ve grown to know and appreciate and be kind to my voice. And for strengthening and clearing my throat chakra for an unmasked connection to the raw truth of my expression and experience
• For every moment of this dream of an experience, I am grateful

Gleeful to announce The Orchard is planted and fruiting! Who knows what flavors and deliciousness will sprout from the ideas here. I am happy to tend to these beginnings with care. And trying not to overwhelm myself with doing it all at once! Though it can be tempting.

Upcoming projects include: Chakra EP, Affirmation EP, NaNoWriMo Collection, Substack of my fiction writings and musings (check it out!)… to name a few!

Many thanks to those who witness, contribute to, appreciate, and walk with me on this journey. Looking forward to many more years of growth, love, alchemy, art.