Spring Travels, 4/10/07

Ah, Spring... time to breath in deeply the prana of outdoors and the sweet fragrance of flowers. Everything just feels different, no? Dolyatra has come and gone, and now we look forward to Ananda Purnima, the birthday of Shrii Shrii Ananda Murtiji. His auspicious birthday falls on May 2nd, one day before my precious jewel, Prashanta - turning six on May 3rd. Each year at Ananda Purnima, my overgrown gardenias bloom out in full! It is a blissful phenomenum.

We took a wonderful trip to northern Missourri, back down again through Tennessee all the way to Asheville, NC. I sang songs that I had learned as a youth along the way. We stopped in Joplin MO overnight, and I just couldn't believe it! I'd been singing Route 66 for years before, "Well you go through St. Louis, Joplin Missourri..." And while in Kansas City, like a mantra the song just would not stop, "Going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come...". Well, we did go through St. Louis - what a beautiful town. And down we headed to the Blue Ridge Mountains, "Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains...". It just made perfect sense to me why they wrote these songs. Asheville was heaven on earth, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and progressives, oh my!

I am overwhelmingly graced by people downloading my songs from MySpace and putting them on their pages. I thank you all humbly for allowing the sweet vibration of kiirtan to flow from your pages, or the images of strong and spiritual women in the world; and the feeling and knowing that "Love is All There Is." I am so happy to be able to serve in this way. Please go to http://www.anandamarga.org/ to find out more about the spirit behind the music; the practices that create a subtle body and mind, compassion in our hearts and infinite love for all....