My journey began like many, leaving high school with only one goal in mind, marriage, kids, and white picket fences. No career aspirations, no personal vision, just simply a wife and mother, yes that would be perfect.
Life had other plans for me. Oh I did marry at age 20 and had 2 beautiful children by 30 and by 32 I was a single full time working mother. That was NOT the plan, but that is what it was. At 40 I was exhausted, burnt out from the corporate world and trying to hold life together and crashed into deep depression. When glimmers of light began to shine I remember talking about purpose and passion and having no clue what that meant for me. Perhaps I needed more freedom, a different career, yes that’s it. I decided to be an entrepreneur and worked on contract, I developed a whole bunch new of skills, strengths and stresses and tumbled some more.
In 2005 the first spark of this new life would show up, a little glowing ember disguised as an inspiration to pull out a dusty guitar and write a song. That ember grew into a CD release inside a Pyramid Winery (in 2009) full of candles and iridescent dragonflies and 120 of my favorite people, a peak moment for sure.
Not long after that however life would take an unexpected turn and my entire world turned upside down and inside out. That event left me with the intense feeling that I was no longer willing to do life like I had. I had done it like everyone else and it was really not working out so well. So at the age of 51 I guess I went on an, eat, pray, love sort of thing, a journey across Canada with a guitar and no agenda, 4 months to discover me. And oh what I discovered…. But that is a tale for another day.
For now let’s just say I returned with new ideas, a new sense of freedom and knowing that magic is possible. I forget now and again, but each time I am nudged with some discomfort only to reawaken and step back into that which calls to me from within. A Creative Soul with wings to fly and a song to sing.
I saw this recently and knew exactly what it meant.
She took the leap and built her wings on the way down." quote from a book titled "Her" by Kobi Yamada
Life had other plans for me. Oh I did marry at age 20 and had 2 beautiful children by 30 and by 32 I was a single full time working mother. That was NOT the plan, but that is what it was. At 40 I was exhausted, burnt out from the corporate world and trying to hold life together and crashed into deep depression. When glimmers of light began to shine I remember talking about purpose and passion and having no clue what that meant for me. Perhaps I needed more freedom, a different career, yes that’s it. I decided to be an entrepreneur and worked on contract, I developed a whole bunch new of skills, strengths and stresses and tumbled some more.
In 2005 the first spark of this new life would show up, a little glowing ember disguised as an inspiration to pull out a dusty guitar and write a song. That ember grew into a CD release inside a Pyramid Winery (in 2009) full of candles and iridescent dragonflies and 120 of my favorite people, a peak moment for sure.
Not long after that however life would take an unexpected turn and my entire world turned upside down and inside out. That event left me with the intense feeling that I was no longer willing to do life like I had. I had done it like everyone else and it was really not working out so well. So at the age of 51 I guess I went on an, eat, pray, love sort of thing, a journey across Canada with a guitar and no agenda, 4 months to discover me. And oh what I discovered…. But that is a tale for another day.
For now let’s just say I returned with new ideas, a new sense of freedom and knowing that magic is possible. I forget now and again, but each time I am nudged with some discomfort only to reawaken and step back into that which calls to me from within. A Creative Soul with wings to fly and a song to sing.
I saw this recently and knew exactly what it meant.
She took the leap and built her wings on the way down." quote from a book titled "Her" by Kobi Yamada