If you will, allow me the space to be fully Candi (translated: fully nerd) with you for this post. :)
If you didn’t know, I am a musician. Since the age of two I have been singing, and believe it or not, a few short years after that I started regularly making money with my voice. Music has always been an important part of my life and will continue to be, even if it isn’t something I do as a main career focus anymore. The power of music is a universally accepted force. Humans are drawn to and affected by music in fascinating, almost magical ways. 

I nearly miss it in my hurry to find the Michelangelo exhibition. Brisk steps through the ornate hallway of European paintings are fixed on the destination and I almost keep my gaze forward-only. But a force greater than me, something so strong I nearly feel its fingers on my shoulder, pulls me leftward, taking control of my eyes and causing me to stop dead in my tracks.

* I started 2020 by taking part in the Michael Hyatt BusinessAccelerator program. You know, before 2020 made many of us question whether there was any business left to accelerate. What you are about to read was written before the world shut down, but I think it is still fitting and hopefully helpful to a handful of you out there.

Several months back I teased out on Facebook and Instagram how I was working on new music for the first time in years. I admit I was thrilled to hear many of you were excited about the prospect, but to be honest, I started working on it because I needed to. It was for me before it was for anyone else. Which is why I think this project might be my favorite one to date.

“It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.” — Annie Dillard, Teaching A Stone To Talk

You were made to scale the mountains
But you must write.
You were knit together to undo the hearts of humankind
But you must write today the drudgery and details of a thing.