I mean, we’re in a pandemic, I work from home, I definitely have the time for more joy, fulfillment, excitement, hobbies - so what am I filling that time with?

Our newest challenge is as Senior Producers, to guide and support the team and continue to steer it, and for me, that’s opened up a space in my life that I’ve been using to make personal transitions of my own, leaning into the Kristeena-ness, taking it through new doors, down new paths into new intervals of possibility. I don’t know where they all lead yet but I’m enjoying the experience of expansion and the time with me.

goodies, while we continue to attempt to cope with the dumpster fire that is 2020, please, if you have a spare moment, take some time to look at how perfectionism has his claws in your life and how you can tell him to snatch his hand back before you break it off, with love and to counteract his evil with patience, love and kindness.

I love Sundays. They’re slow, quiet, and comforting in all the right ways. Sundays just make me want to love on myself, like I look in the mirror and see this young woman who just needs more pampering, more love, more soul time and I just want to treat her right and show her what’s good you know?

Before they could vote, our ancestors dreamed of freedom when it was utterly impossible. They found slavery and racism to be abhorrent in every way even when it was normal and they dreamt up ways to resist it. It’s important that we not accept the world as it’s presented to us, accept the systems we’ve inherited but rather dream of how they could work for us and read/talk with each other and do research so we can dream bigger and better.

How I’m parenting myself through what I'm calling the “Covid Exhaustion-Wave Background” of 2020

Anyone who’s ever worked on a team knows that team dynamics can have major impact on output. We've got some of the basics down pat when it comes to helping differently tuned people with disparate, maybe even oppositional energies, to create beautiful music together.

Oh man! So about a year ago I went to China for the 3rd UNESCO International Youth Forum on Creativity and Heritage along the Silk Roads and it was awesome, so behold, 10 highlights!