I am writing this to you as I sit at my kitchen table looking out at the mountain view listening to my dog snoring in the corner. Today is a perfect summer day. How can people still be in denial of global warming with these record breaking temperatures!!! Sofia is in her room drawing hearts. We just
returned from a long day which started on the soccer field this morning for for Sofia’s soccer pics!! Yes, I am officially a soccer mom!!! After soccer Sofia went to a friends here in the canyon for a slip and slide party, remember those days!!! I wanted to slide down it too but Sofia said ,”It’s just for kids”!!! Along with the season changing once again to summer, there are life changes too. My dog Marley of 14 years is dying of Lymphoma and I have been trying to make him more comfortable during this heat wave as well as dealing with the reality of letting him go. 5 years ago I lost my other dog Truly and I had tried to save her life by doing so many surgeries and taking doggie drugs, I V’s only to exhaust her more and have her die one month later. So I have vowed to not put Marley through that and let nature take it’s course. I took him to the doctor today and they suggested some steroid drug to make him more comfortable and there is always that question if the animal is suffering than it is more humane to put him to sleep. I guess part of me is still in denial and I have to face this reality and make some decisions. The doctor said that this drug he gave him may make him feel better and we go on some walks and have some more time together maybe another month. I miss my walking buddy!!!!

On a different note, I have been working hard on booking my own tour this summer and I am excited to travel with my band and get deeper into the music. We have been Jammin on a new funky song and I am trying to finish it to put on a compilation CD. There are some great conscious events going on and I am inspired to be part of this movement which is so powerful and positive with a pure intention to heal. I will be getting the new pressing of “Sky Is Open” late this week. The cover is the same art that is on donnadelory.com and I love that there are hummingbirds surrounding me. Here is something I read about hummingbirds which is very inspiring. “Legends saythat hummingbirds float free of time, carrying our hopes for love, joy and celebration. Like a hummingbird we aspire to hover and savor each moment as it passes, embrace all that life has to offer and to celebrate the joy ofeveryday. The hummingbirds delicate grace reminds us that life is rich, beauty is everywhere, every personal connection has meaning and that laughter is life’s sweet creation”. Isn’t that sweet? It looks like the Mantra CD won’t be out until late summer but I will put some music up on my myspace page soon. Thank you for all of the support and if any of you have
some words of wisdom about helping a pet make their transition I’d love to hear it.
Peace, love and light,
Donna

We are having so much fun out here on the road. I love being with my musical soul brothers, Cameron and Dave. We also have our new assistant, great friend Stephanie with us selling merch and making sure we get everywhere on time with food!! Sedona was so beautiful, wish we could have spent more time there. So many great people here. Today on our way to Tucson we are stopping to eat at an organic Café called Mandala. They said that we could play some music there if we felt like it too. I’ll play for organic food any day!!

Tonight is our last concert of this tour and I am excited to play again in a new place. I’ll write more later. Hope everyone is staying inspired and thankful today for this beautiful life.
Blessed always,
Donna

The windows are open this morning as I sit here in my office in Topanga looking out at the mountains. The chimes are gently singing and the air is warming and calling me outside. Life is good and I feel blessed as always. There is a little bird flying in front of my window now. I just got home from spending the weekend in Santa Barbara. I was there singing at an event at Santa Barbara City College up on the hill over looking the ocean. I thought what a mind opening inspiring place to put a school and revel in nature. I love Santa Barbara and it is my getaway now as Topanga was when I
lived in North Hollywood closer to the City. I took a walk Friday night after playing the event to venture out to a Global organic Restaurant that I was excited to try. The air was so sweet, I couldn’t get enough and it seemed that the whole town was fragrant with this sweet bliss, jasmine, orange blossoms. I arrived at the restaurant to find a cozy dimly lit bistro set up in an old house, one room filled with the smell of Indian spices. My senses were happy. I talked to the waiter about the pure food they so consciously serve and the wonderful local farmers they get it from. I decided to go for the house salad with mango vinaigrette and the Indian curry extra spicy. It was comforting to know that I would be eating as well as I did at home and this food I would be putting in my body was so consciously grown and prepared. I am so happy to know that these businesses exist now. The next day Rob and Sofia came there to join me for the day. We rented one of those bikes that two people pedal and had Sofia in the front seat ringing the bell every time we would pass someone on the bike path. At the end of the day as the sun was setting Sofia got on her bike and headed towards the drum circle on the grass in front of the ocean. She parked her bike and started to dance in the glow. She was so free moving in the wind running ans spinning then falling into the grass. I danced too but mostly watched her letting the moment sink in so deep that it would be something I would never forget.

Well, it is good to be home drinking my Silver needle tea on a Monday morning looking out on my view of open sky thinking about all I am pulling together creatively. The Mantra CD is finished. After a long process of sending mixes back and forth from New York I feel happy with the mixes and
the sounds and I can’t wait for someone else to hear it as a complete form not the way I have been hearing it during the mixing process isolating bits, eq’s vocals and beats…. I have also given the tracks to Mac Quayle to do remixes. He will start with the first track Aham Prema to a house beat which means I am divine love…pure and still…united with the source. If you have any great ideas for re mixers please let me know. I will have a couple of the tracks up on my myspace page soon after mastering at the end of this
month. That is a process when another mixer makes sure that the levels match from song to song and they work on the overall EQ as well as do edits and fades. I am debating on doing edits since this is a Mantra Cd and the whole idea is to get in a zone and stay in it. Paul came over to visit yesterday and said that he liked it more than my last Mantra CD “The Lover and The Beloved” and that it was more emotional. That made me feel good. Well I better go now, I forgot about daylight savings time!!!

Let’s all keep holding positive thoughts especially for those who are being challenged right now with a recent loss or needed some strength and healing in their lives. Most of all let’s let each other know that we are here for each other, here to help to listen and to give. I was just asked to play for a benefit to raise money to help cover healthcare costs for a man who has returned to Topanga to heal himself from Cancer. A friend asked if I would be interested in helping I wrote back immediately, YES! It feels so good to know that I can give something to help. I think we all have something to give, don’t you?

I hope to see you this summer when I go on tour.

Check my myspace page for updates.

Love and Light,
Donna Eve

I just returned from my daily walk with my dog Marley. He is fourteen years old now and he seems to be walking slower everyday so I found myself having to slow down even more and appreciate the warm breeze and the hint of spring everywhere. This time of year is always so inspiring for me and I find myself sitting at the piano more, with the windows open, listening to the chimes on the Oak tree and letting some new ideas flow through me.It is always a sacred time for me with everyone out of the house when I can return to this space and get back to me. I am looking out from my desk at the big open sky now. I have been working on artwork for my re-packaging of “sky Is Open”.  So many details and decisions.

I have been finding inspiration from looking at some old album covers from Joni Mitchell with the beautiful illustrations. The booklet for the package is beautiful with all the lyrics and some new pics. We are touching up the mixes on my Mantra CD and I will start to work on the art for that soon. I’d love to have you help me decide which song to do a video on. Soon I will put up the new songs on my Myspace page and you can let me know what you think. The summer calendar is beginning to fill up and I am trying to keep everything straight. I remember some great advise I got from M about putting post its up everywhere. I have a big board now by my desk filled with pink and yellow post its of the places I may tour this year. Please let me know if you have any suggestions!!!

Hope you are enjoying your lives and staying healthy. This is an exciting year with big changes around the corner, yeah!!! Remember…YES WE CAN!!!!!!

All love and light,
Donna

“Be the change you want to see in the world”-Gandhi

I am in the studio again and we are wrapping these mixes up. I am very inspired now because this song we are mixing is sounding so GREAT!!!! Yeah I love it when that happens. We are mixing Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu. I can’t wait for you to hear it. It is my peace song shanti, shanti.

I can’t believe I have been inside for 5 days here in New York I have barely gone out because it is so cold!!!!!!!! Every night I leave here and walk back to my hotel it is actually refreshing in a freezing kind of way. I will fly back to LA tomorrow and take my mixes with me then after a couple of days I will listen to the songs and give Kevin my notes. I need to start to work on the artwork now and get this out soon right. Any ideas for re mixers??????

Love and Light and beautiful inspiration to you,

Donna

I am in New York sitting in the studio now. Kevin Killen who is the mixer I am working with is in the next room trying to sort through some vocals. This song Jai Ma that we are mixing now is a bit unorganized you could say but it is grooving pretty hard. I wanted to have a song on the CD that was a bit more electronic/remix sounding. The songs that we have mixed sound great and we are moving through the songs pretty well except for a few missing files that didn’t make their way to New York on the hard drive.

I am happy to be done with the recording and ready to move on with my plans for touring this year. It is so cold here (20 degrees) that I didn’t go for my afternoon walk today. The days are passing quickly and soon I will be home with my little Sofia again. I just bought yet another yoga mat today so I could do some stretching while I am here.

The Hotel where I am staying is right down the street from Whole Foods so that makes it so much easier to be away from home and still get good food. Well, I better go back and tell Kevin my notes on the mix.

Donna

I am sitting in front of the glowing fire now writing this to you. 2007 is coming to a close quickly and it is easy to look back and reflect on all of the life experiences of this past year. It has been a big year for growing up and opening my eyes of inner vision to greater truth.

After my Nana passed in February, I realized more how she is not gone but living inside of me and I have gracefully stepped more into this Matriarch role within myself and with my family. I could tell right away by the way I related to Sofia that I had changed. I have missed the comfort that Nana brought to me but have tried to be there to give it to myself with the greatest compassion. I have realized more this year the miracle of life that we are living and have committed more than ever to nurture the wellness of my body as well as the wellness of our mother earth.

Music as always has been a great part of my life and always a part of my healing. I started and finished (almost) my Mantra CD coming out soon which I am filled with ideas thinking of a name for now. I toured in some new Cities where I have always wanted to go to, like Austin, Boulder, Lake Tahoe and Maui!! A peak moment was lying on the rocks beneath the waterfall in the bamboo forest in Maui.

I found a new drummer this year, Dave Allen, and found new inspiration with my band, Cameron Stone and Mark Gorman and how far we can go making music to experience the transcendent. This year I released a video of “Sky Is open” and within the first couple of weeks we had 6,000 views on You Tube, thank you for that and all of the love you send my way on myspace and supporting my live shows. Most of all, I have realized how everyday is a gift. Knowing that this is all going by so fast I have tried to breath deeper in the moment, thankful for what is here in front of me now. Appreciating it all, the pleasure and the pain. So I hope this is true for you and that you are living your bliss, feeling blessed and surrounded by those you love this Holiday.

Peace, Love and Light to you this New Year and always,

Donna

“Seek to know the power that is within you” - Joseph Campbell
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings” - Hippocrates

Hello beautiful people,

It is Thanksgiving morning and I am sitting up in bed with my green tea close by writing this to you. I am thinking of how much gratitude I can possibly feel today. Gratitude for my life, my home, my many loves, music, my health and the gifts that I have been given to share. We are graced to just be alive in this moment taking this breath, feeling what we feel.

I was once again reminded of how blessed I am as well as the power each one of us has to make a change in our world when I saw the film, “Darfur Now”. I met the director of the film, Ted on the airplane on my way back from Austin two weeks ago. It was one of those magical connections with a new friend that makes you say, I love how life works. I couldn’t wait to go see the film after hearing him talk so much about it and the deep spirit Journey he took while making it. The film was moving and informative but most of all it made me feel an incredible oneness with the people of Darfur. I was so moved by their strength and their faith. Despite the fact that they had lost everything they still had hope, there was so much light in their eyes as they pulled together to help one another through tragedy.

My daughter asked me after I had seen the film, “Mommy tell me what it was about”. She could see how moved and inspired I was. I explained to her that those people, many of them children have nothing they have lost everything, their homes their land and their families. I told her that the only way that they can survive is for people like us to care about them so much to send them food. She took a few moments thinking about this and said,”we can just put some food in a box and send it to them and I have some money saved up that I can give to them”. It made me think how innate and natural giving is. When our hearts are open it is so easy to feel the oneness and take care of one another. I know that our lives are really about giving and we have so easily forgotten that along the way. I know I have.

So today I am giving thanks and thinking of more ways that I can give. Enjoy this beautiful day!!
With Thanksgiving I’ll be a living Sanctuary for you,
Donna

We are leaving Maui now. I am sitting in a coffee shop in the old plantation town of Paia. This is the only place that I can get internet, organic cappuccino and hot pink Crocs for Sofia. I feel so energized and rejuvenated
from this trip.

We were in the bamboo forest two days ago and lying under waterfalls. It was so great to share this experience with Paul and Sofia and our new friend Johnny. He was our guide giving us a real Hawaiian experience as he would say. I am already looking forward to coming back to share more music, explore more of the island and get to know more beautiful people
here.

Well it’s back home to my routine and finishing the Cd. I plan to go to New York to mix in December with Kevin Killen. Look for a spontaneous performance maybe at Jivamukti. Thank you for all of the support in getting the word out about the new video “Sky is Open” we have already had over 5,000 views!!!!

Sending you sweet Maui love,

Donna

Hello friends,

Here we are in Maui, Hawaii and it is heavenly healing. I feel the city
washing away with each sunset swim here in Kehei. You came to a place like this and realize that you don’t really know how to relax. With every breath I am soaking in this paradise. Saw the most amazing rainbow yesterday shooting out of a cloud into the water on the North side. I met some great conscious people here that I feel will be friends for a long time. Jammed with some new musicians, one a beautiful fairy yogi cellist named Ashana. Tomorrow is my performance here. It is in a huge yoga studio/performance space/community center. I will be playing with Daniel Paul on Tabla’s who plays with Jai Uttal, well known here and My friend Johnny Perez on groovy acoustic guitar as well as Ashana who will improvise on the cello. We are not getting together to rehearse but she assured me that when she plays she just shuts off her mind and lets her fingers go to a place that is straight from the heart. That is how I feel when I sing…more and more I am learning to just let go and stop trying to control everything to tap into this place of endless bliss.

Donna