4) When do you lose track of time?

I lose track of time when I’m doing things I love like writing a new song, gardening, cooking or taking a bath.

5) Describe one instance in which you experienced time as faster or slower than ‘normal.’

This summer has been unbelievably fast.  It seems like winter just left and fall is now here.  I was in Tennessee last week, and my niece is starting back to school already.   It seems like time moves faster as I get older.

6) How does your profession influence your relationship with time?

Rhythm and time is probably one of the most important things about playing music.  I don’t have natural rhythm.  I wanted to learn to play an instrument to help me at clapping my hands along to a song.  I have spent days and years of my life sitting with a song and learning to tap my foot at the same time.  It’s like tapping your head and patting your tummy!

7) What, would you say, is your current relationship with time?

Time is one of my greatest teachers.  I think there is order in time.  Things that don’t really make sense today, can somehow become understandable with time.  Like how a certain thing might happen that’s unjust or unfair, but in time you can see how that thing was a great teacher that helped push you in a new direction.

How has that relationship changed in over the course of your life?

That relationship just gets stronger as I get older and I put more trust in time.  I trust that my present actions create my future and shape my view of the past.

8) How much do you focus on the past, present, and future, respectively?

I feel like I move between them all on a moment by moment basis and call on each one as  needed to help me in creating the events of my life.

10) How do you visualize time? For example, if you could draw it, what would it look like? If you could sculpt it, what would it look like?

I sing about it a lot!  I think my songs paint the picture of how I see time.  I move back and forth between the existence of time and the illusion of time.

As human beings who co-create our own realities, we have to allow ourselves to go to the place where time does not exist in order to plant seeds for the things we want to see manifest here on earth (where time is very real).  So it’s a lot like gardening to me.  You plant a seed.  You don’t really know if anything is going to emerge from the soil, but you water it and give it sun anyway.  You imagine what it will look like if it begins to sprout.  This is all happening in the place where time is an illusion. Then, if you’re lucky, a sprout emerges.  That sprout is the first proof of the existence of time.  And so on and so on…

So it exists and it doesn’t exist all at once.

10)What are the first 5 emotions that come to mind when you think about time?

Happiness Sadness Bittersweet Scared Optimistic