KICKSTARTER!!!!

http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1690022869

So it's almost Halloween and Game 7 of the World Series is on TV and I'm finishing final edits on the Kickstarter video and about to launch!! I know that in a few hours so many people are gonna see this thing and so I'm trying to make it as good as I can (and not suck!!). I feel like a lot is on the line - basically the risk public humiliation and pure and abject failure- not to mention a lot of people's making their first impression of me as a musician (and person)- but I feel excited and already grateful for all the energy and excitement this project has caused - my creative juices are flowing in a way I haven't felt for some time! There's nothing like working on a big project and giving yourself a deadline (tonight!!!).


And I love how synchronicity works - in the last couple of days I've run into just about every musician that I was wanting to contact to be on this project - Ben Leinbach showed up on the mat next to me in yoga class, Dan Zemelman in the car behind me in town, Tom Finch on line at the Good Earth grocery store - and all said YES to being a part of this project, to recording and playing out with me in support of this CD. Not to mention how this whole project began - I sat in Cafe Roma in Berkeley waiting for my car to get serviced and sat next to incredible violinist David Balakrishnan (Turtle Island Quartet) and his wife - whose name I'm spacing on -- but who suggested that I do this kickstarter project to raise $$ for my CD. And then David said yes to playing on the project!!

Oh, and if you didn't get it the first time, here's the link to my kickstarter.com homepage; http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1690022869

So it's been like that, feeling invisible hands - as well as many human ones- guiding me forward on this thing, this journey. And I know that after 40 days (I know, how biblical!!)- the period I'm setting to meet my $10,000 fundraising goal - I will be in a totally different place in my life....so here's to ACTION, to jumping off the cliff of the unknown, to taking risks and trusting that whatever happens is meant to happen. But it can't happen if I don't take action - so here goes......something......

(It's the top of the 9th now, the Cards about to win it all for all of us come-from-behind underdogs!! The baseball season is 3 outs from being over, but it's the beginning of something really big, a different season in my life, the season of the courage, the season of the heart.......)

May we all be fierce and courageous in pursuing our dreams!!!

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