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@jenamalone : When I was 29 years old I woke every day to what felt like horses pounding in my heart. I felt there was so much to see and so much to express before I crossed the imaginary threshold of 30. I was working like mad , I think I filmed 5 films that year and was still touring and promoting my last album with @theshoeperforms and still felt this desire for more. Some invisible pulse that was aching. On a good friends recommendation I ended up taking a couple of weeks off from my life and went traveling thru Myanmar. I was a solo traveler but sought the help of a travel agency that works with local women in the country and ended up spending the most beautiful time getting lost and getting to know a deep part of me that was aching to be found. To be guided by a fellow woman , who spoke the language and could let me stumble step in awe and fumble for my camera in each town square , to know I could actually sit down and communicate with people instead of the three minute charade of smiles and gestures changed everything for me. We hiked up mountains together and thru tiny ancient villages where grandpas cooked me lunch while the kids chased me thru their hidden spaces and shared a can of soda with me . I slept on the floor in old temples , were the novice monks allowed me to join their games of soccer and movie nights of National Geographic on vhs. I was embraced and given so much love that just came mirroring right back out of me. By the end of the trip my feet were light and my face ached from that incredible gift of being human, smiling so damn much. One of my last days on the journey I visited a small temple to sit and allowed myself to fall into a deep mediation. This was where I was given the vision that my life would change. I would become a mother to a beautiful boy. And he and his father would point me into the direction I had been longing to go but never had the words to articulate. I left their sobbing, just giant wet face and nose and ears and hands wringing my