Singer-Songwriting
Streamer on Twitch. The COVID-19 pandemic reawakened my long-held dream to make and share music. What first seemed like a whim turned into a beautiful soul-to-soul experience with my livestream chatters. I’m writing and producing my first collection of songs, due for release in 2022.
(image created by twitch.tv/thestreamscribe)
Community-Building
Peaceful Pioneers is an online community I created to help humane leaders lift their spirits, and strengthen their voices. Between the political upheaval of the late 2010s, and the COVID-19 pandemic, I searched for a space and place to practice a greater sense of wholeness, expression and impact. It didn’t seem to exist in quite the configuration I needed, and so Peaceful Pioneers was born.
Re-Orienting
This is my “Inner Peace” project. Life is a series of sense-and-respond experiences, so the current flux and uncertainty we feel may just be more of the same. But those of us who are more attuned to the rhythms and flows of the universe know that this “disturbance in the force” is different.
Energetically, the rise of women, and of the Eastern or Southern Hemispheres, is calling the existing world order into question. Having personally thrived relatively well in this dominant Western (and masculine) world order, I find myself growing into a richer sense of my feminine energy as a leader, and as someone who was born and raised in the East.
The shifts we see on the evening news are the same forces that “fight” inside me. With time, patience and intense self-reflection, I’m finding more ways to reconcile masculine and feminine, East and West, North and South. I’m beginning to understand the ways that we lead differently, and I’m on an ongoing quest of tearing down my own assumptions that “the way it is” means it’s “the way it has to always be.”
Exploring
This is my “World Peace” project. I constantly find myself at the intersection of contradictory concepts. Through instinct and experience, I’ve learned that’s often where both the deepest wounds of the world, and the most profound expressions of the human spirit reside. And so, I’m endlessly fascinated by the clash between things like:
- old and new
- centralization and decentralization
- chaos and order (or war and peace)
- convention and innovation
- the economy and the environment
- individualism and the common good
May these become articles, books and conversations that we generate together.