Cooking plus Service equals Music

Most recently I have found myself mercilessly domesticated and cooking .. a lot.  As in breakfast lunch and dinner for me and mine.  I am delighted to say that for some reason unknown to my naked eye, I am ecstatically delighted about this.  Who knew?  Who knew that the thinking about, the planning, the preparing, the coking and the serving would bring my Spirit such delight.

Since Monday 10/26/09 I have been starting at least one song a day.   Yes, at least one song starter a day.  Up until today I had been blessed with at least a melodic hook and lyric.  Today after drawing a few blanks, enough to twitter about it, I made a simple breakfast.  Apples sliced and yogurt.  I arranged this meal on a plate and before I knew it, 3 rhythm based melodies emerged one after another.  No lyrics, just the rhythm and the melodic baseline.  Could there be  correlation between the serving and the receiving of melodic content from the big downloader in the Sky?

Well, I’ve learned to leave the pondering of such BIG questions to those more equipped with time and space to pursue the answer.  My job now is to harness the newfound source of energy and dive een more into the delights of cooking for me and mine and serving the delicious melody infused delights to … whomever’s coming to dinner.

Tonight’s dinner consisted of artichokes still steaming and whole grain pasta stir fried with porcini mushrooms, peas, sundried tomatoes, olive oil and a few cooked shrimp.

No we are off to finally see Michael Jackson’s This Is It.  I think for now this really Is it.  Cooking + Service = Music.

Blessings 🙂

Nkechi

Life, Cocoon, & a Belly Button Birthday

AUGUST 29th :: The Butterfly Effect VIP & PIV Fundraiser Party

Happy Birthday 2 Me!  I am blessed to be on earth celebrating another day of Life.  Despite my most recent temper tantrums to my spiritually wise mentors,  I have found myself so amazingly and unsuspectedly lifted up and inspired by the daily habit of lifting up others.  In my weary age of … okay so i’m exaggerating .. whose counting anyway .. I have accidentally ended up wiser than I would have predicted by this time.  YES, meanwhile back at the ranch, despite my raving protests, my Life seems to be being pruned of all insanity.   Uh oh, somehow I seem to be veering towards the sane and .. well this is odd considering I am a full blown creative who basks in a bit of creative insanity 🙂 A gal pal said to me last why not “do both” as in use your left and right brain and .. well I am considering.  SO now back to the COCOON.  For the last few months I have opted to live by my lonesome, usually I have housemate, in order to stew and brew in the true essence of me.  Little did I know that intuitive decision would be a gateway to a new life.   A gateway to Reliance.  This new life which is really just another twenty four hour day where I get to practice a living faith that moves mountains by exercising the Muse to create, connect, and respect the gifts so freely given me.  A new voice has emerged,  though at first a little whiny, just like a new born screaming at the top of her lungs as her awareness opens to the fact that she is no longer in the womb.  The womb, the cocoon, my apartment same difference,  I’m awakening with a Joy for the entirety of my journey thus far on planet Earth.  My soul keeps reminding me she is bigger than my body and that if I want a bit of Heaven all I have to do is ask .. bodly.  SO I’m asking.  And I’m So grateful to be at the mercy of God within.  I am excited to begin this journey of listening in.  Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending she transformed into a Butterfly.  I can tell the cocooning period ends today!  Happy Birthday Butterfly ME 🙂  SO Saturday’s Fundraiser is doubling as a celebration of My and Michael Jackson’s Birthday.   Come celebrate with us the releasing of of a few Butterflies!

Deeply Profound

Something deeply profound is happening to me. I’m in a delightfully quiet space. This is unusual for me. I seem to be delightfully pleased with all that is in my life. The good and the bad. I am especially enamored with many people whom are I call true friend’s. True ralliers. Supporters of the Heart. Creatives need these types. Those who accept and love me as I am. In My Entirety. I can’t help that I see angels and the good in the most distressed of souls. Yet lately I have quietly accepted the fact that this is not most people’s reality.

So I make music and songs so that hopefully one day “they” will get to see what I see.

I deeply miss my angel brother Michael Joseph Jackson (1958-2009).  His heart and soul are so sweet

Blessinsg 2 U

NKECHI

http://www.nkechi.com

Settling In

I feel somethang coming over me.  A settling in, a good settling in of sorts.  I guess today is just as good a day as any to settle in and let in all the good I’ve been accumulating lately.  Right now my belly is full on fettucini with clams from a cafe in Sausalito and my eyes are feasting on a bunch of happy souls enjoying a fellow musical artist doing her thang.  Sing-ang her jazzy thang.  Nice.  Watching the listeners smile through their discomfort of walking in front of everyone to fill up the tip jar…is exhilarating.   I am amused and pleasantly delighted that this IS my life.  Listening, learning, yearning, being, growing,singing and settling in 🙂

Expansion

I am delighted by the idea that nothing is really as it seems.  Thank God.   In that,  sometimes  for no reason at all,  as in out of the blue, life can suddenly expand to accommodate the outskirts of our wildest hopes, dreams, and aspirations, and trump our wildest imaginations =.  Just like that!  I love when my thoughts are overridden by a more favorable Reality.  Presently I am on such a journey.  My hope and vision for what life as a full blown music recording artist will be like is coming in to view.  My mind and imagination are stretched to capacity.  This state is all I’ve ever wanted.  I ask today for a clear path to . towards the . miracles that are evidence of this blessed music anointing.   Blessings 🙂 Nkechi

Blogging as a A Way Of Life

Seems to me that blogging has become a necessary way to express the delight of one’s finite self while living in the midst of the Infinite realm of God.  Neat 🙂 Nkechi

She

So today I write a free flowing stream of consciousness blog while my abdomen aches with cramps that I am told are confirmation of my fertility. A big day comes soon. Tomorrow! A big day yes, ‘cuz beautiful things are coming true which I have wished for for a long time. Music. Yes! More and more music will come through me until fulfillment. The still of time. The distillation of time through a clearer perspective. And always that phone call from someone who heard of.. yes the music that is waiting to make its way through and just needs a little impetus to feel and reveal itself in all its glory “Write me!” this new song cries. “Write me, soon, lest I slither away into the cranals of the mind that only get remembered when you have no pen to write and no recorder to record.” “Write me soon”. she cries and now at least we know she is a she. What wil you be about? “Me” she cries. I won’t know who I am until you put pen to paper and then put finger to guitar. Wirte me soon, she cries again. And so I will. We will call her She. And so it is. May the Spirit she carries make it through to the album.

Blesisngs 🙂
NKECHI
Astral Soul Songstress