welcome to shaheensheik.com!  this is my blog page.  here i get to ramble a bit about what’s happening with the release of rock candy and my musings about the world.  so here goes…

is it possible to detour into paradise?  well, somehow I managed to!  i am in paia, maui.  the trip was a gift from a dear friend of mine who felt after spending three months in the studio creating rock candy, i deserved a little break. 

the album was mastered by stephen on monday.  we were done by 5 pm.  tuesday, rebecca and i put together a bunch of packets with early copies of the cd to friends and family. 

as the resident wiccan witch at azadi, rebecca created a little prayer space for us so that we could send out the cds with lots of love and good wishes to everyone who was to receive them.  after the prayers, we promptly broke open a bottle of champagne and toasted a bit more than we should have.  by thursday morning, i was on the 8am aloha airlines flight to maui. 

it is so lovely here.  have managed to sleep a lot and hang with the locals at the wind surfing contest.  you cannot believe what an extreme sport this is.  it’s so fantastic!  and really beatiful to watch.  there must have been 50 windsurfers skating over the water at about 40 miles per hour all out at once and we were perched on top of the bluff looking down at them all.  poetic. 

when we got back to the house today, we were starving. i haven’t made anything in the kitchen since before i left for india in december (aside from  the toasted bagles with cream cheese i’ve sustained myself on during production).  today, i broke the dry spell and made some guacamole from scratch - spicy like i like it.  next stop, my friend’s backyard, aka the beach!  gotta run.  more soon.  pictures too. 

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