by Cathy AJ Hardy | Jun 9, 2018
The song, Rest, came out of an experience in 2006. I experienced a situation where I knew much desolation. I can’t remember what happened, but I do remember being extremely frustrated and desolate. I remember feeling discombobulated. That was the word....
by Cathy AJ Hardy | Mar 10, 2018
Song of the Red Tent – (from the new release Remain in Love) It was in the summer of 2016 that I began to co-lead a group of 12 women in a circle we called Anam Cara, which means Soul Friend in Gaelic. This circle was created to allow space for deeper personal...
by Cathy AJ Hardy | Feb 2, 2018
Song Stories – Breathing Together (as recorded on the Love Shines Album) I loved Christmas eve as a child. I loved that night so much. Going to a candlelight service was so meaningful to me; a lover of ceremony, ritual and story. I loved the sense of community,...
by Cathy AJ Hardy | Jan 15, 2018
Rise Up My mother taught me a love for the woods. Living in Harrison Hot springs for the first 10 years of my life, I soaked in the forest, the mountain and the lake. They became part of my inner landscape. Mom prepared incredible flower arrangements for the front of...
by Cathy AJ Hardy | Dec 9, 2017
She Was A Wanderer and A Stranger It is a raw & wild song of my heart a song of a wild woman, a song of a wild birth, a song of a wild love. As I watched the many refugees walking across Europe in the past two years, my heart leaped out and ached. I saw...
by Cathy AJ Hardy | Nov 9, 2017
Song Stories III – Winter Is Over Recently I shared with my nephew of the story behind Winter is Over. And as we enter the winter of 2017/2018……it feels we are entering a VERY cold season here in the Fraser Valley of BC. And so maybe it is a bit...
by Cathy AJ Hardy | Sep 29, 2017
Love’s One Desire – Song Stories from the upcoming album release, Remain in Love. This is the 2nd in a series of song stories from Remain in Love, the album I am currently working on. I am so excited to share with you some of the journey and background of...
by Cathy AJ Hardy | Sep 22, 2017
Remain in Love – Song Stories I Today I am beginning a weekly blog of telling the song stories from the present musical project I am working on. And then I will journey back over the past decade and share stories from each album I have had the privilege of...
by Cathy AJ Hardy | Aug 10, 2017
No Dead ends……..Just Another turn……. I was introduced to the labyrinth almost 20 years ago during my years in Atlanta, GA. My friend Christina taught me to draw the 7 circuit labyrinth and I have had fun drawing it all over the place; in...
by Cathy AJ Hardy | Jun 28, 2017
Turning 50…. June 29th When I was girl, I never thought I’d be a middle-age woman…ask any 8 year old if she can imagine being 50….utter disbelief! And here it is. June 29th – I’m here at 50. A moment. A milestone. A marker....
