A reminder ⏱

Claudia Lenti — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:32:54 +0000

I don’t plan on making this a long blog, but let’s see how it goes…

I have always found September to be a weird month. It is the end of Summer, the weather changes and the cold begins to set in. For many, it is a difficult month. Less parties, darker days, that looming idea that Winter is coming. It may be the reason that it puts people off their axis. I generally end up retreating in the month of September. Energy is important and so is the exchange of it. People act kind of funny and odd, and it is most likely because they are going through something, but I am still careful about what I choose to absorb and not. Same goes for what I choose to transmit. It appears this blog might be longer than I expected.

Retreating for me is a moment of self-reflection. I will spend some days doing absolutely nothing and just relax, and this pause will allow for more creativity and ideas to bloom. I also get back into my workouts and healthy eating in a more consistent fashion. My more structured self helps balance out my unstructured self, and together, they kind of make it happen.

Writing is my saving grace. Some texts I keep, some turn into songs, others are just ideas on hold for a future time. The coloured post-its can be seen all over my room, and I end up stacking the notebooks in my purse. Without noticing, I end up healing and flowing into the future of my art. This is how my art is born. So in summary, it is in loving myself, setting boundaries, and taking the time that I need for me, that I re-energize and blossom into something better; moving from one season to the next.

As the seasons change, so can we

Months ago, in May to be exact, I wrote a song called Love Yourself. Like many of my songs, they sit somewhere on the back-burner until I feel the time is right to share it with the world. I have been hoarding one too many so I am letting this one free.

I feel that now is the time. The lyrics are very direct and clear. It is a song I wrote for all women who have been mistreated and who fear leaving an uncomfortable yet abusively comfortable relationship. Maybe, as October sets in, and the season changes, and the leaves change colours, we too, can change our season, our clock, what we choose to accept and what we choose to let go.

So, I will end this blog here and remind everyone, as I remind myself daily, that you need to Love Yourself.

Peace peeps and be well

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Chapter 4: Next Single – GLOW

Claudia Lenti — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 20:32:24 +0000

The Story behind 'GLOW'

You know that look someone gives you when they are completely infatuated with you? Their eyes light up and glow and something inside of them, and you, comes alive. Sometimes it’s love, other times its passion, and it can also be both.

Can we agree to disagree that it can mean different things for the parties involved? Is it safe to say that “love” is not as simple as we imagined it to be, after watching all those wonderful Disney movies (some of which I still watch over and over today – HA!).

As humans, we glow for many reasons. We glow for lust and for the unattainable. We glow because we feel loved, or simply because we have someone’s attention. We can glow in unknown places when there is a lack of it in our current love nest, and sometimes despite all the love, we can still glow for someone else. We can also glow for ourselves…

Love triangles have existed for a long time. For the sake of this song, I am referring to an exclusive couple whereby one of the two is involved with someone else, a.k.a. cheating to many. So many stories exist with many different points of views and feelings and this blog is not intended to offend any point of view but rather, respect them.

There are happily coupled people, others not so much. At times, one or both are involved with others. Some outside party relations exist because albeit their unhappiness, they are stigmatized by divorce and afraid of the gossip it will spew should they leave each other. Some are bound for financial reasons. Some are in love with someone else of the same gender, but they have not yet come out to their family and friends, or don’t plan to. Some are simply in other relations for sexual purposes.

The point is, there are many reasons for why love triangles exist. As a society I believe we have work to do when it comes to judging these triangles. I am sure we each know someone with a story. I can tell you that I do, and they are all good people, living in complicated situations.

And so, in this next song, I explore and touch upon this subject lightly, with the underlying message being that the decisions of accepting or not accepting any complicated situation really comes down to you. If you are happy in your situation then live it. If one day you are not, then don’t. I will let the lyrics and the video tell the rest of this story….

It can be easy to start off in any relationship with a temporary status in mind, an expiration date if you will. Sometimes promises are made and not kept and so that can keep a person in a situation longer. Yet, one can also lose track of time and find themselves changing and realizing that they are no longer comfortable in a situation. Just like, someone may be unhappily married and accept to suffer for years until one day, they just can’t suffer anymore.

Bottom line: we are all human, in search of love and all its surrounding parts.

‘Glow’ tries to encompass just that, with one tiny story amongst so many that are all worth attention and care.

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A reminder ⏱

As the seasons change, so can we

Chapter 4: Next Single – GLOW

The Story behind 'GLOW'