We got started!

At our Assisi wedding (July 18, 2004)

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~ Walt Disney

I was thrilled to see this quote on my Momentum Dash this afternoon, because it was completely aligned with today’s reality.

That fact is that Ramesha and I have been talking about a particular (and very special) project for over a year, but today the talking was over and we did something about it!

The “something” is our new Patreon account: “Bhagavati & Ramesha”, which we just launched!

This morning we recorded our Patreon intro video, as well as one of our earliest Harmony Duo song arrangements (which we hadn’t performed in probably ten years).

The intro video is not published yet, although you can see a sneak preview by clicking here.

There’s a lot I’d like to say about Patreon, why we’re doing it, the process of getting to this point, and how cancer proved to be a clarifying factor…but these are topics that will have to wait for a future blog post.

The fortunate one

Swami Kriyananda blessing us during a satsang at Ananda Los Angeles.

Tonight I’m reflecting on the meaning of the spiritual name that Swami Kriyananda blessed me with back in 2005.

It had been an exceptionally powerful weekend. For starters we were invited to celebrate our first anniversary at a small dinner with Swamiji and a few of the leaders of the Assisi community — amazing evening!

Then we were informed that Swamiji would be blessing us as ministers and giving us our spiritual names at the same time.

Whoa! Talk about a doozy of a day.

I share this to explain how it came about that — although Swamiji shared several aspects of what the name meant — I was so blissed out that the only part of his explanation that stuck in my mind was “the fortunate one”.

But after close to twenty years of being Bhagavati I’m beginning to think that it was no accident that I couldn’t retain the other information, because “the fortunate one” so perfectly describes my life and I’m very grateful to be reminded of it all the time.