What a magical scenery! It is truly refreshing after all those weeks of running around so many different cities between America, Europe, and Africa! It is a huge blessing for me to feel like I am at home! As I was running through the only narrow path there is on this hill, I had a hard time looking straight forward as I was truly amazed by all those purple, yellow, and white flowers coming to life all around me in this very animated forest! Gotta love this time of the year around here in Virginia, witnessing this amazing circle of life taking its reign back over these long silenced woods where the sound of the wind is overruled by hundreds of colorful birds, all pretty busy building their new homes in the hopes of sharing it with a new life partner!

As I was trying to breathe again after I finally made it back to the top, I realized I was exactly at the same place, precisely a year ago, doing the exact same thing, as we were starting to work on a musical journey called “Springtime” under the umbrella project “All the Violence in the World”, the profits of which would be sent to Ukraine, to an organization ran by a dear friend of mine, Music Saves UA. I was simply mesmerized to see all this nature coming back to life, and here I was a year later, the war in Ukraine tragically still raging…