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These songs were not originally intended to be a collection.
Each one was written to help me cope with a series of extremely challenging experiences I was going through at that period
in my life. I was dealing simultaneously with serious health problems and multiple joint replacement surgeries that ultimately
forced me to be unable to play guitar and serious repercusions from Autism that my only son began to experience as he approached
adulthood. Music and songwriting gave me a way to cope with life and remember to keep focused on the spiritual perspective
of the things I was experiencing.
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I was performing regularly during this time and often played original
songs in my performances. Friends encouraged me to record some of my songs. I had originally intended to record many
more songs, but my life completely fell apart as I had hand surgery that made it impossible for me to continue to
play guitar and simultaneoulsy lost the legal right to be involved in my son's life, lost my home and lost my relationship
with the man I had considered my best friend, under tragic circumstances. |
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The recording project was put on hold as I struggled to survive
and make sense of my life. My relationship with my Guru was the only thing that kept me alive at this time. Struggling
to let go of the dual identites of "mother" and "musician" I went into seclusion for several months and
then decided to return to college and focus my teaching career. I ended up getting both a Masters Degree and a
Doctorate in Education and then went on to work with troubled youth, using music, drama and meditation with them, before
I ultimately became unable to work full time. The one thing that kept me going was my faith in my guru and that some
day it would all make sense.
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For several years
the master of this recording was stored in my closet. In a moment of inspiration I gave a copy of it to a fellow disciple
of Paramahansa Yogananda. He was inspired by it and believed that others might find some inspiration and hope in these
songs as well. He encouraged me to revive the project. It is to him that I owe all the credit for daring to bring
this recording into being. I pray he is right, that others may find some inspiration from it, as well.
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