tag:kaciny.com,2005:/blogs/here-s-to-2020Blog2022-01-03T15:30:00-06:00Kacinyfalsetag:kaciny.com,2005:Post/68575922022-01-03T15:30:00-06:002023-10-16T09:57:29-05:00Updates + 52 Weeks of Song<p>Hello world! Kaciny here. </p>
<p>First, an update.</p>
<p>I cannot thank you enough for your support.</p>
<p>I'm happy to say that the EP is coming together beautifully. I'm so grateful to the team of people working together to make it a reality. 2022 is the year that you see all of the hard work pay off, so be on the lookout in the next few months. I'm excited to share this story. I hope it helps you the way it's helped me.</p>
<p>Second, an invitation.<br> <br>I'm embarking on a little journey here that I want to invite you in on. <br> <br>Consistency has been tough for me, particularly in the past couple of years (AKA a whole panorama). I know I'm not the only one this is true for. <br> <br>I was doing a lot of healing and shedding and not as much writing as I wanted to. In all honesty, I wasn't prioritizing it. And for that season of life, that was OK. The season of life I was in was very much about replenishing an empty well. It was good and necessary for that time. But now, I want to try something a little different. A little more vulnerable. <br> <br>I'm going on a journey to write 2 songs a week (minimum) for 52 weeks. To some, that may sound daunting. To others, that may sound like not enough. For me, it's a good place to graduate from letting inspiration run with me like I have in the past 2 years. Good songwriters can craft words and tell stories whenever they feel the calling to do so. But great writers? They're the ones who are consistent. They show up daily. They try and fail and try and fail and pick up their pen like a sword to do battle with their own inner critic until something beautiful comes from that fight. <br> <br>This year, I'm choosing to do battle. Anyone coming with me? </p>
<p>-K</p>Kacinytag:kaciny.com,2005:Post/62896752020-04-21T17:26:31-05:002021-11-22T09:21:20-06:00Home - Nwaneri ft. Carrie Giita<p>I can remember the day Osi (Nwaneri) told me that he'd found someone on Craigslist to work with. I thought he was insane. But I've never been more grateful for that website because we met Carrie. Soft-spoken, with her guitar or ukulele, she drew us in with some songs she had written up to that point. A poet, she drew us in with her images. I was so excited because these were some of my first legitimate recording sessions. I knew I wanted to be a songwriter and this was the real deal.</p>
<p>Home was one of the first ones we did together.</p>
<p>You can find it on all digital streaming platforms.</p>
<p>Let me know what you think, and keep an eye out for more from Nwaneri.</p>
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<p>-K</p>Kacinytag:kaciny.com,2005:Post/62538142020-03-18T12:49:57-05:002021-11-22T09:20:36-06:00Made for This Love - The Crossing Collective<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/446763/5cd47b01f955c8a7da5514c9ffea64941deee64c/original/made-for-this-love.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>My first song of 2020 is out for the world to hear. I wrote this with Quimi Eaves, the Spanish translation is thanks to Karol Krawchuk, and production by Michael Paquette.</p>
<p>It was a song I started writing from a place of hopelessness and fear in my own life. I was singing what I needed to believe. I needed to believe that I wasn't alone, I was supported, and I was loved.</p>
<p>I hope this song gives you that same encouragement in these crazy times.</p>
<p>Stay safe, stay healthy, stay you.</p>
<p>-K</p>Kacinytag:kaciny.com,2005:Post/62243932020-02-22T18:47:54-06:002021-11-22T09:21:05-06:00Here's to 2020.<p>I knew that I wanted 2020 to be different. It's easy to say it, and a lot harder to actually make it happen.</p>
<p>But there's something unique about the power of intention.</p>
<p>I think for a while I was floating. I kind of let life just happen to me rather than living with a specific purpose. Insert major life change here, and all of a sudden, I'm in a space where I have to evaluate what I want to do and why I want to do it. It feels a little like being in high school and filling out college applications again. So far, there have been 2 specific lessons that have come in this time.</p>
<p>1. I have a lot more growing up to do. I think everyone has a moment of reckoning with themselves when they realize that they have to put some old ways of living and thinking to death to get to the good part.</p>
<p>2. I think my 7-year-old self had a lot more wisdom than I realized. We lose sight... I lost sight of the idea that anything was possible. You get older and it's so much easier to put limitations on ourselves until we place ourselves on the outside of our purpose. While I know that I need to be reasonable, I think there's a place for the giant, scary dreams that I had when I was a kid. Cause those giant, scary dreams push me towards my purpose.</p>
<p>So here's to 2020.</p>
<p>The year of intention.</p>
<p>-K</p>Kaciny