i'm writing this from a wifi enabled restaurant in Santa Fe, New Mexico. i'm here playing with tamara at a large festival for Native American art and artists. the downtown is very beautiful... not the typical skyscraper type of skyline... i didnt' expect that at all! instead it's a lot of fairly low-lying plastar building that kinda feels like i've left the US and found myself in Mexico.
well, almost.

unfortunately this trip is full of mixed feelings....the good news is that i left toronto with 10 potentially finished mixes on my iPod. I haven't listened to them yet, as i need to give myself a couple days' distance to hear them with fresh ears... but i feel fairly confident that my hard work last week paid off and that i'm on the road to mastering fairly soon. there will be touchups to these mixes, but i think they are fairly close. it's a nice feeling, a feeling of achievement.

the bad news is yesterday during my day of airports and connecting flights i received word that my grandmother passed away. it kinda gives everything a surreal quality. i just booked a flight home to winnipeg for the funeral for a few hours after i return to toronto.

karen