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There’s nothing hard about this. Love thy neighb

There’s nothing hard about this. Love thy neighbor. #wearamask 💟☮️

I was back on John Riley Project this week. I real

I was back on John Riley Project this week. I really enjoyed this podcast as it was less about what I do and more about my why and my how, which is all about being in the flow for me. I teach about being #intheflow in my @kathrynthegrape series. If you’re interested in listening this podcast discussion and watching the new #kathrynthegrape “Just Be in The Flow” music video, you can do so on my website’s press tab linked above. There might be some nuggets shared that will resonate with you. We talk about becoming unblocked and some tools that have helped me in life to keep going, and more. 💜✨🎧 @johnrileyproject

The new @guitargirlmag is out now. I love being pa

The new @guitargirlmag is out now. I love being part of this fabulous publication! My article titled “MAP Out Your Goals” is on pages 59-60. I share about how my process for completing my first marathon 21 years ago has inspired me all of these years with the basics of having endurance and focus for manifesting my desires. If you’re seeking some mindful motivation, may you glean some inspiration from it for your journey. Click the press link on my website above to read this issue of #guitargirlmag. 🎸💜

“He helped me feel brave with the courage to try

“He helped me feel brave with the courage to try.” 💜❤️🙏🏼😇 Lately more than ever I am aware of just how much I am like my dad. I’m so glad! So much of who I am is because of his full spectrum positive impact on my life. He’s appeared to me a lot in my dream state in recent months with clear messages. He is light and love, and I’m happy to have the honor of being his only daughter. #mydad #fathersday

“You will never be able to escape from your hear

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.” — @paulocoelho 💜🪁🦋🙏🏼

Everyone processes differently. Everyone expresses

Everyone processes differently. Everyone expresses themselves differently. While some people may lead the charge to shift the status quo by giving speeches, writing impactful manifestos, or creating thought-provoking change-making viral graphics, others write songs and poetry, draw and paint, sing and compose, craft and create.

Some take action immediately and loudly. Some process into taking action a bit slower and with less volume.

May our collective intention be pure, heart-centered, transformative goodness. We never know what’s happening within someone else that manifests in the capacity to ripple out goodness in beautiful, change-making ways.

We are awakening. We are elevating. We are receptive to understanding, accepting, listening, helping, transforming, shifting, apologizing, taking action, being unconditional—and loving unconditionally.

I got to experience the process of this artist. His art is speaking. His heart is rippling. 🎨💟🙏🏼🖤 @vincentghoste

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This was me in La Mesa Village yesterday at 3:06pm

This was me in La Mesa Village yesterday at 3:06pm. Chase bank is behind me. By 3:06am, Chase was burned to the ground along with other buildings and cars. Businesses vandalized, stores looted, and graffiti messages sprayed everywhere. What transpired yesterday evening into the early morning in La Mesa — post peaceful protest!! — is absolutely indescribable. The escalation of energy that emerged and erupted wasn’t from the peaceful gatherers. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
It’s 10am and graffiti has been painted over. Ash and shattered glass swept up. La Mesa is coined “the jewel of the hills” of San Diego County and people are peacefully united this morning swiftly restoring this gem of a community. 💎 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
And yes, the position of the fountain water looks like it’s coming out of me which was so hysterical yesterday. But this morning, it serves more of a benchmark for what the fountain will be restored back to thanks to community clean-up... a cleaning that never should have been needed. 🙏🏼⛲️ 🧹

Are you willing to take the stake out of the groun

Are you willing to take the stake out of the ground of what’s been your constant, and allow yourself to wander into the great wide open? How open are you to the process of discovering what’s awaiting you? What if the freedom of untethering from what’s been is the simple key for you to experience the fullness of your truest desires and the grandest expression of personal fulfillment? What if that one thing you’re most afraid of doing, saying, feeling, and experiencing is exactly what your loving angelic ancestors are trying to guide you to do, say, feel, and experience? What would it mean for you to trust without explanation the gentle nudges you feel, the messages delivered to you from visitors in your dreams, or the voice you hear when you first wake up? What would it be like to trust without doubt the constant flow of Divine guidance and love that streams through you that’s manifested by way of your innate senses? You already know. ✨✨

#Repost @kathrynthegrape 💜✨💜 ・・・ Gue

#Repost @kathrynthegrape 💜✨💜
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Guess what’s making a music video debut soon??? Kathryn the Grape’s magical wand! More new videos coming soon. 💜 Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel for your children at https://YouTube.com/kathrynthegrape

So, I have basically worn the same pieces of activ

So, I have basically worn the same pieces of active and lounge clothing non-stop for almost 3 months. Wear, wash, repeat... and I’m loving it. 💟🤗 #walkingthrough

I’m gearing up to record lead vocals for my bran

This was us as we waited to see the Thunderbirds f

This was us as we waited to see the Thunderbirds fly over in tribute to coronavirus frontline workers. ✈️😷 There are so many angels among us.

A few years ago, my friend @frangarfgreenstein con

A few years ago, my friend @frangarfgreenstein connected me with @lynnhopkins11 and the @mpssociety. One thing led to another, and I wrote a song called “Heroes” to help shine a light of love and awareness on the rare disease community. When I met @michellehopkinsrare in person and got to know her more, I felt guided to invite her to sing lead on the @kathrynthegrape youth version of #Heroes. Singing is one of her greatest joys and I knew I could provide that gateway for her to experience dream living joy. It was meant to be. We shot a music video with her for the song at the International MPS Symposium. “Heroes” got on the @recordingacademy #GRAMMY ballot for consideration in a few categories, which was cool for everyone. 💜 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
For the past year, I’ve been working with Michelle and her family to bring an entire album of songs to light that share Michelle’s story, her heart, and her encouraging hope for everyone. Writing and producing this album is a highlight for me. I’m proud of the incredible team I brought in to help make it happen with aligned creative energy and a heart for making one of Michelle’s dreams come true. Michelle’s seven-song #HaveHope album will be releasing in the fall and I can’t wait for these songs to ripple love and light to you. ✨💟✨ There is always a way forward to manifest your desires and dreams, you just have to believe, take action, and have hope. 💜🎤💙 @pacificbeatrecording @stoneybass @megnguyen @hiimenzo @drumplayer100 @rockandrollsd @carinafleckner_photography #michellehopkinsrare

Our character is revealed in the decisions we make

Our character is revealed in the decisions we make. In business, decision makers care about working with people who have integrity — with character attributes firmly rooted in loyalty and honesty. Talent may open doors but integrity keeps the door open. Our true character shapes our reputation. They go hand in hand, and that holds true in all aspects of our lives. When the sun sets in the evening, we trust that it will reveal light in the morning because it has been shown to us over and over again to be what’s true. This level of trust and consistency is what many of us desire in our lives on all levels, from others and hopefully above all else from ourselves. ✨✨✨✨

Oh yo! We have signed off on final design approval

Oh yo! We have signed off on final design approval for @michellehopkinsrare’s #HaveHope album cover. Michelle will be revealing it this Friday 5/15 in alignment with #MPSawarenessday. I am so proud of the purposeful and joyful work we’ve done together to bring forth a collection of songs that share her heart, her story, and her hope for the world. 💜 @mpssociety 💜 #michellehopkinsrare

Sooooo much goodness is manifesting. My 12th @kath

#Repost @carinafleckner_photography — (Thank you

What an impressive group of SoCal women to be feat

What an impressive group of SoCal women to be featured with in @redtricycle. I’m honored and grateful! I love the photo of Landon and me that’s included. The article link is in my bio above. 💜❤️

Wrapping up another circle around the sun and this

Wrapping up another circle around the sun and this message caught my eye while walking. Of course it did. 💜🌈🔑✨🦋

When you’re not in anyone’s pocket, no one can

When you’re not in anyone’s pocket, no one can control you. And trust me when I say this... not having control over you scares them. Always be extremely discerning about who you choose to align with. If it doesn’t feel right to you, it’s not right for you. 🗝💜✨🦋

I saw this on my walk. It caught my eye. Pushing t

I saw this on my walk. It caught my eye. Pushing through the rocks meant to block growth, purple grows through and blooms. Yes. 💜

Four years ago my songwriting earned me a spot to

Four years ago my songwriting earned me a spot to perform on this iconic stage for my first time. It was a magical night and a welcome memory to see today. @thetroubadour 💜🗝🎸

From beige to colorful. 🌈 I share a new blog po

From beige to colorful. 🌈 I share a new blog post on my website — https://kathryncloward.com/i-am-colorful 💜❤️🦋 “One day, metaphorically gripping an energetically wielded mallet, I started shattering the illusion of the perfect life I had crafted. No longer desiring to be a survivalist by adaptation, I stopped people-pleasing. I stopped being a chameleon. And even though my remodeling of my home including knocking down walls to create a great open space, I was boxed in by beige.”

I wrote #LetsStay six years ago on a summer mornin

I wrote #LetsStay six years ago on a summer morning after liberating myself from a circumstance I wrestled with for far tooooooo long. I know others have lived similar stories to this one, maybe you’re currently living it. I get it. 💜

I encountered this beautiful rose on my walk. She

I encountered this beautiful rose on my walk. She was surrounded by other roses at various stages of growth and bloom, even some that were withering. But this rose was in full bloom. She was open, vibrant, symmetrical, healthy, and multilayered. For a rose to reach this level of growth, she’s survived through a lot. She’s weathered storms and sustained through drought. And still, she blooms. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
As I got closer to take a photo, I noticed cascading thorns lining her stalk. What was apparent was how thick and sharp her thorns were. Anyone seeking to cut this rose down would most certainly feel the pain of their own choice to do so. Her thorns aren’t weapons. They are protection! She doesn’t go around stabbing people. She simply is aligned with what she is here to do and does it. But she’s been wise in her evolution and knows that self-preservation includes self-protection. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
We are like the blooming rose. We weather storms, sustain through droughts, and still we grow and bloom. Some may try to cut us down but we aren’t allowing that — not without a thorny intervention.
Keep growing. Keep blooming. 🌹❤️🌹❤️

They love our strength when our passionate #warrio

They love our strength when our passionate #warriorwoman energy takes a stand on matters of injustice for them. They love when our truth talking, fact revealing and status quo disrupting benefits them. They respect us. They say we’re inspiring, fierce, strong, protective. They are glad we’re on their side. They stand taller with us. They sometimes even wish they were like us. They hope their daughters become empowered like us.

But the thing is this — our unwavering, justice-oriented scale-balancing doesn’t take sides. We aren’t easily influenced. We don’t need a tribe to be strong. We know when to retreat, and when to stand up and speak up.

So when our passionate, protective, courageous energy takes a stand on matters of their injustice, they are repelled by us. They say we’re aggressive, angry, emotional, confrontational, loud. They say we’re difficult. They say we’re too much. They say we’re not being ladylike. They want us to be less. They talk in the shadows, seeking others to agree with them to gain strength in numbers. They say we’re b*tches.

And maybe we are all of those things. Maybe. But we’re for sure all of those things to them because that’s how they need to perceive us within their own level of awareness.

But does that even matter? Does it matter how they perceive us when all that really matters to us is that we know how we became this way?

We didn’t become strong by being compliant. We became strong by feeling everything and showing up to life anyway.

We have been fearfully brave going deep into ourselves to excavate and reclaim our treasures. We’ve reclaimed our little girl within and given her back everything she didn’t know she didn’t have.

We’ve elevated ourselves out of the overpowering vibrational pull to keep us contained, conformed and controlled. We don’t waste energy. We have important stuff to do. Warrior women don’t need swords because light cuts through darkness.

Warrior women are torch-holding, light-bringing, energy-shifting, form-defying disruptors. And no, that’s not ladylike. Thank goodness.

“I’m just a girl discovering my place in this

“I’m just a girl discovering my place in this world.” — My Name is Divine (jina langu ni Divine)🎵🇿🇼 💜

The past few days have been rough. That’s the tr

The past few days have been rough. That’s the truth. I had to dive into some places I didn’t know I needed to go and simmer in some discomfort. All of which brought forth clarity and understanding. Thankfully and symbolically, the sun is breaking through today and I get to resume my sacred walks. And bonus... I just said “no” to some stuff that I just don’t want to do now. All in all, #shelterinplace goodness. 🌞💜✨🗝🦋💡

“Let’s choose to ripple love. Let peace be our

“Let’s choose to ripple love. Let peace be our energy.” 💜🎥🦋✨🗝

#Repost @kathrynthegrape 💜 ・・・ Every deta

#Repost @kathrynthegrape 💜 ・・・
Every details in this series has meaning and purpose. Everything is interconnected and it all roots back to little girl me. It took me a long time to rediscover my colorful light and have courage to shine without dimming myself to fit in. As I acquired tools of self-love, I wanted others to have them too. I envisioned a road map for manifesting and sharing those tools in simplified lessons and concepts through stories and songs. ✨✨✨✨✨✨
When I was growing up, I never wanted to be a princess or a star of someone else’s creation. I just wanted to be understood. I wanted to feel seen and heard. Many of us have felt that way, and perhaps still feel that way. Our children are the same. They desire to be seen, heard, and understood. I get that. That’s why I do what I do. 💜🌈🗝

🎸💜 @guitargirlmag 🎸💜 I just received m

🎸💜 @guitargirlmag 🎸💜 I just received my Spring issue of the magazine that I’m featured in twice. You can read the articles on the “press” page on my website linked above.

I was live on @guitargirlmag’s Facebook page sha

I was live on @guitargirlmag’s Facebook page sharing a few songs and stories. You can watch the video replay on Facebook or my website’s blog — linked above. 💜🎸

#wereallinthistogether 💜My KC version of this s

#wereallinthistogether 💜My KC version of this song is called "Ripple Love" and I perform it at every show. This song came through when I was on a walk. The lyrics and melody rushed in with ease, clarity, and urgency. I hurried home and wrote the full song in less than 20 minutes. It was a Divine gift, as they all are. 🙏🏼 #RippleLove knocked #WarriorWoman out of the title track slot for what would become my third full-length album. The core message felt so important that I rewrote some of the lyrics to become a @kathrynthegrape song as well (this!) and is the title track of that award-winning album.
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My dear friend Barry Rosenbaum helped me compose some of the music for the core song. Since he passed prior to both songs releasing, I ensured his children @john_rosenbaum1 and @katierosenbaum got established with @ascap so they would be credited as songwriters in their dad's place.
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It just so happen that I shot this KTG video with @jonohamm a while ago and he completed editing this week. In beautiful Divine timing, I'm sure Barry's angel wings are fluttering close to help us all absorb this message at such a time as this.
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I’m a writer. A storyteller. A wordsmith. Words matter to me tremendously. Words are how Spirit manifests through me to share. 🗝 To mindfully assist our children with feeling ease in this time, sharing encouraging messages of hope, love and unity are helpful. Perhaps this video will provide some love and light for them...and for you. I’ve shared the full video on my Facebook pages and it’s on YouTube for easy viewing for children. 💜🗝✨🙏🏼😇

This was me four years ago in my dressing room bef

This was me four years ago in my dressing room before opening for Nashville Unplugged in Las Vegas. This was a huge opportunity for me. And I was crazy, crazy sick! I could barely keep my head up. It felt like a 20lb weight on my neck. My mind was mushy and I had a fever. But I wouldn’t cancel. I had to do it. I smiled through my haze and no one knew how much I was struggling. I remember sweating through my black tank top before stepping out on stage. It wasn’t my best performance by far, but I did my best with all things considered. ✨✨✨
My friend Barry drove me to and from Vegas. I slept the entire time both directions. He always took such good care of me. It was the weekend of the AMC Awards and everyone in the country music scene was in town. But I didn’t want to attend any events. I wanted to get home. My mind and my heart were there. Dad was terminal and I didn’t want to be away. Having had a vision months before of being with him when he passed, being hours away stressed me out. ✨✨✨
Looking back to this captured moment, all of the emotions of that time well up in me. This was when everything around me was started to be like a tornado — a swirling storm that lasted for a really long time. In the coming month, so many hugely painful things happened in a condensed amount of time with dad’s death and Barry’s death being the worst for me. Two men who were my rocks, gone within months. Two men who understood me, gone in the same season. ✨✨✨
With much turmoil happening with other people in my immediate family, I tabled my grief. I showed up. Stood up. I was strong. Most often I was in the storm’s eye able to see with clarity next right steps, but at times I too was swirling in the chaos. It was a murky time. The energy was dense. I sought refuge. I made spontaneous life decisions hopeful for sanctuary. I needed more “help” with Landon. My wings were heavy. Wounded. It took a lot of time to flutter my way out of the swampy vibration of compounded grief. Yet, the freedom of my flight felt different. I was different. I am different in wonderful ways. What a Divine gift that only time could help me fully see...in this photo of me looking back at me. ⏳

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes fr

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” — Oprah 💜✨

This guy. ❤️ #mycrimsonheart

This guy. ❤️ #mycrimsonheart

When you’re scrolling to find a pic and pause at

When you’re scrolling to find a pic and pause at the good old days of last summer cruising the bay celebrating Brooke+Paul, and think, “Was this the last time we all got together???” 🤷🏻‍♀️ I do love this captured moment! @bee_loo and I never run out of things to chat about. 🚢✨ And this was clearly pre #robbase #ittakestwo 🥃💃🏻 and @brookiecookie619’s jazzercise inspired mother/son dance duet 💃🕺and before it got 🇬🇷 real. #opa 💙 Who would have known... #stayhome

Well, here’s what a joyful ending looks like! Wi

Well, here’s what a joyful ending looks like! With a negative test result and completing 21 days of quarantine — 14 that were federally mandated — this matriarch has completed her most interesting cruise ship journey ever. 🛳💗

This was me exactly a year ago hiking in Sedona in

This was me exactly a year ago hiking in Sedona in Boyton Canyon on my way to Kachina Woman. You can see her rock formation above my head — like a cluster of women standing together. The feminine power of this specific place always draws me in. She calls to me. Sedona is my place. Some trips have been for healing. Some trips have been for writing. Some trips have been for sanctuary. This trip was for gratitude. I had just ended a decade long creative journey and I need to go there to reflect upon my growth with abundant gratitude. Guided by pure love, I filled up on what I needed. 🗝 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Then the last morning of the trip, hours before leaving, I woke up at 3am flooded with the words and visuals of what would become, “My Treasure Box with Tools of Love” — the single book that simplifies my seven-book affirmation series. The story just channeled through me with ease and clarity. I always say every song and every book I write comes through me — they’re not of me. But it’s taken the mindful discipline of reducing noise in my life to be an open conduit for receiving Divine flow and to fully trust the messages. Fast forward a year and that book just picked up a Mom’s Choice Award and many children have enjoyed its messages of affirming self-love and unifying compassion. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨Sharing about this today feels appropriate because we never know what’s ahead and what Spirit desires to manifest through us. But my goodness, what a beautiful journey of discovery we are able to embark upon when we allow our lives to be shaped by Divine wisdom flowing through us — absent of ego’s need for a clearly defined outcome. So in this season of quieting our lives and simplifying all that’s non-essential, may we mindfully choose to allow ourselves to be more open and receptive of the flow of pure goodness. What’s desiring to be manifested through you? 🙏🏼✨💜🗝🦋

Awe, it’s always so nice to see @carinafleckner_

Awe, it’s always so nice to see @carinafleckner_photography share photos from our sessions. 📷💜 I’ve brought Carina in to shoot for other artists too. Shots from sessions with her have been used for album covers, lyric videos, print and online publications, promotional pieces, website banners, and so much more! She also captured my go-to @kathrynthegrape thumbs up photo that will be on the cover of my next KTG album! Why do I work with Carina over and over? She is willing to do what it takes to get the shot! She has a positive can-do attitude. She has a grateful and generous spirit. She puts people at ease. She’s blazing her own trail and being fierce, which I love and respect wholeheartedly. I guess this just became my “I recommend Carina” post. Check out her work — go to her page and click on her website. When you need photos, consider her. 💎

Do you have kiddos at home??? I hope you’ll foll

Do you have kiddos at home??? I hope you’ll follow along with my @kathrynthegrape page and subscribe to my #YouTube channel at https://YouTube.com/kathrynthegrape as I help engage children with mindful music and positive messages! 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️🌈

I’ve been walking a lot since my son and I start

I’ve been walking a lot since my son and I started our quarantine. Not confined to specific time frames with school transportation and meetings/events, I’ve welcomed a change of pace. As Landon sleeps, I go for a long morning walk. This is what I saw on my walk today. I had been following behind them for a while. The boy often running ahead and his dad running behind him. Then they’d unite and hold hands. Such is life. Even when the path is muddy and uncertainty looms, there is so much space for unifying joy and love. I’m sending love to everyone during these uncertain times. We all are doing whatever we need to do for our families and for the greater good. I trust that to be so for us all. 💟☮️ @kathrynthegrape

It felt amazing to wake up to the new issue of @gu

It felt amazing to wake up to the new issue of @guitargirlmag and see these articles alongside features of so many incredible women in music. 🎸💜 I met #GuitarGirl Publisher Tara Low at the @the_wimn #SheRocksAwards. We chatted on the phone weeks later and got to know each other. Within that conversation she decided to feature me in her magazine and asked me to write motivational / empowerment articles for each issue. Naturally, I said yes with gratitude and honor. 🙏🏼 I’m featured on page 64 and share #empowerment tips on page 78. I’d love for you to read the articles on the magazine’s website and/or read them on my website’s “press” tab — linked above in my bio.

I share about this photo, quarantine, and my lione

I share about this photo, quarantine, and my lioness stance in a new blog post on my website — linked above. 🦁 “Parents, a lioness doesn’t seek counsel from the tribe. She isn’t wishy-washy. She doesn’t wait to see what others do and then make a decision for her cub(s) based on the consensus. No. She simply protects! Her primal instinct is to keep her loves safe no matter what.”

It’s been a fierce five days. I took this photo

It’s been a fierce five days. I took this photo last Thursday while waiting to pick my son up from school to tell him about Grandma and Ed (cousin) being on the Grand Princess cruise ship that brought the realities of Coronavirus into our immediate focus. And this right here — @dangelicony hand sanitizer from #namm2020 — has proven to be the most genius and timely marketing freebie ever! And, it’s the only bottle of hand sanitizer I have. #soldout ✨✨ Liquid gold. ✨✨

Who just knocked it out of the park on a lead voca

Who just knocked it out of the park on a lead vocals session? This determined young lady! Michelle’s #HaveHope album is coming along nicely. I’m so proud of these songs, this whole project, and this special friendship. 🎤🎵💜💙 @michellehopkinsrare #michellehopkinsrare

For daughters and dads. ❤️💜

For daughters and dads. ❤️💜

This was my view last #LeapDay. Dad had asked me t

This was my view last #LeapDay. Dad had asked me to breakfast and it alarmed me at first since he was on a chemo break at the time. His intention was just to connect and chat. We had a really beautiful talk that day. Beautiful. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
He looks healthy in this photo. It’s so strange to realize it was less than 11 weeks later when I held his hand as he crossed over. 🙏🏼 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Dad taught me many things in life but all life lessons can be summed up in him teaching me to put up my own tent. ⛺️ ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
By the time I was in junior high, I had my own tent for camping and he expected me be to responsible for all aspects of my own gear on every level. He taught me. He showed me. But he never did it for me. He fully expected me to be empowered to do it for myself. His hard line for DIY empowerment annoyed me sometimes. But, I always ended up sleeping in my own tent that I put up myself. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Dad helped me with many “tent” lessons in life. And throughout the years whenever I was erecting a new venture, he would always say, “Keep going. You’re doing it.” ❤️⛺️💜 Keep going. You’re doing it.

“I’m a warrior woman I’ve got nothing to pro

“I’m a warrior woman I’ve got nothing to prove. Power within guides every fluid move. Peace is my weapon and love is my truth. Content with myself living as I choose.” #WarriorWoman 💜👑🦋 Watch the full music video for this song on my YouTube channel linked in my website above. I had blonde hair the summer I shot that video, symbolic of my journey back to little girl me and no longer being a #SecretKeeper. 👱‍♀️🙏🏼✨

So, I legit can’t handle rides anymore. I tried,

So, I legit can’t handle rides anymore. I tried, again. But I don’t have the stomach for them. Do you??? I rocked the studio tour tram “ride” though. 😆🚌 And in case this info will come in handy some day... please know there are two @starbucks at @universalstudioscalifornia. They are strategically located for maximum caffeination, which I took full advantage of since I woke up super early with a song desiring to be finished. The guys are having a blast and that’s the goal. So, winning. ❤️💜 #boymom #sundayfunday

This photo was taken at the very first @birchaquar

This photo was taken at the very first @birchaquarium Toddler Time event a year ago. I had done a TV appearance with them to help promote the event. The staff was hoping to have 25-30 people show up. Well, we ended up having 250+ people. 😲🤗 Since we had planned for a @kathrynthegrape musical storytime program, I didn’t have amplification. (Lesson learned!) It was a fun event with so many parents, grandparents and caregivers singing along with their younger loves. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
I’ve been performing for Birch Aquarium ever since. I feel tremendous gratitude for their partnership with me as my series and shows continue to expand. The program has since moved outside with their picturesque La Jolla Shores backdrop. I now ensure having amplification at every event, no matter what. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
This May, when I release my new Kathryn the Grape album, Birch Aquarium will be one of the first shows for debuting my new collection. I can’t wait! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
What we dream about we can bring about with trust, time, and a willingness to brave transformation. 🦋💜🦋💜

There once was a time when I wished for this. #man

There once was a time when I wished for this. #manifestdestiny 💜👑🦋

“When tears crowd my eyes and silence calls, tha

“When tears crowd my eyes and silence calls, that’s when I need a soft place to fall.” ✨✨ Songwriting for me is often about lyrically articulating what’s hardest for me to actually say. My inner feelings reserved for the sanctuary of a melody’s cradle. I wrote this song six years ago, but the message is a timeless and simple vignette of my process of life. (Perhaps yours too??) #ASoftPlaceToFall received the 2015 West Coast CMA for Best Traditional Country Album. While my sound and songwriting has evolved a lot since then, the vulnerability of my lyrical stories continues (even deepening with my 2017 #SecretKeeper album and with the newer KC songs I’ve written the past months). When this album came out, many people who had known me for years were shocked by vulnerability. It’s not the me I revealed outwardly prior to then. It is my norm now. It’s just what is. Writing has helped me experience freedom and fulfillment by fully feeling the spectrum of living a passionate life, without attachment to specific outcomes. At times it can be scary but far less scary than the alternative, at least for me. Onward it flows...🙏🏼💜✨ @kathrynclowardandtheroyals @kathrynthegrape

For reals! It’s usually pennies on my path as si

For reals! It’s usually pennies on my path as signs of love and confirmation. Today, this was on my path — folder up, wet in the gutter as I crossed the street — right after having a rad big vision conversation. So fun! I save every penny I pick up. I’ll do the same with this. Trusting signs. Honoring goodness. ✨✨💜🦋 #signs #trust #guided

I 💜 my life! We had another huge crowd at @birc

I 💜 my life! We had another huge crowd at @birchaquarium this morning for my @kathrynthegrape show. I can’t even describe how amazing it feels to arrive at an event and hear children excitedly saying, “Kathryn the Grape is here! Kathryn the Grape is here!” My cup overflows....💜🦋🗝🧩🙏🏼

This is the bed Father Joe sleeps in every night,

This is the bed Father Joe sleeps in every night, in the humble home he resides in across the street from the homeless shelter he’s dedicated decades of his life to energizing — to help others experience dignity. ✨✨
This bed was a donation from the VA Hospital. It’s many decades old. It’s not state-of-the-art or flashy, or even level. But to Father Joe, it’s enough. It does what it’s intended to do. He is begrudgingly getting a new bed soon, as one of his care providers wants him to be in a more comfortable and suitable bed, especially since Father Joe is a double amputee below the knee. ✨✨
To me, this bed is a metaphor for his life. It’s unassuming, simple and serves its purpose. That’s the man “Joey Carroll” grew up to be because that’s who he’s always been. Unassuming. Simple. Purposeful. That’s how I perceive him. That’s my experience of him spanning four decades, from when I met him as a little girl to now as a grown woman invited to be his life’s storyteller. ✨✨
I took this photo the other day when I dropped by to surprise him with a song I wrote about him — a lyrical story of how I’ve taken the harvest of his life story and simplified it down to the seeds of love he planted. While harvest is what many desire to experience and what’s most often glorified in this day and age, every story roots back to the intention that energizes seed planting. Father Joe dug deep to provide countless neighbors with dignity. He did so with an unassuming simple purpose — yet he’s been able to have a “mega” impact. ✨✨
That’s the story I have been guided to share, and it’s personal for me because Kathryn the Grape is actually rooted in his landscape of goodness as my mom bought my signature @kathrynthegrape purple outfit at the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store in the 1980s when she worked for him as his first employee. ✨✨
There are many people like me who can trace back to how this man impacted their lives. Soon, I will share the golden seeds I’ve extracted from the stories of his life’s harvest. ✨✨
And may we be reminded by the photo of this bed that there are many people cultivating mega impact living humble lives. There’s so much goodness being watered every day.

I just sent over the last of 11 songs for my next

I just sent over the last of 11 songs for my next Kathryn the Grape album. Pressing send on “I Feel Good About Myself” felt good. It’s the title track lyrical story that glues everything together and reveals how deliberate my creative journey has been for the past decade, piece by piece to complete the big picture vision cast upon me years ago. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ I use the puzzle metaphor in one of my @kathrynthegrape books and here because that’s what this entire process has felt like for me. I’ve been piecing together a puzzle. For anyone who has ever taken the time to put together a big puzzle, you know it starts with seeing the end vision first, and then sorting through each individual piece to figure out how to connect them one by one. We need to be patient and allow ourselves time to do so because puzzles aren’t for hasty. There’s no get rich quick infomercials for puzzlers. No one can “coach” us into actually finishing. We can be encouraged, but the doing part is our choice and our choice alone. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Sometimes puzzling warrants pausing to regain perspective. Sometimes the outer frame is shaped with ease, mainly because the edges are clear. But it’s often the interior sections that are challenging and seemingly random. But to a visionary, the holder of the puzzle’s big picture, nothing is random. Piece by piece, section by section, it eventually is clear. It’s done. Pieced into one. Whole. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Looking back, some of my lessons — my pieces — were more painful to put into place than others, but I needed those pieces, each and every one of them, because they made me whole. Piece by piece I have become whole. I’m stronger and braver. I’m more compassionate, truthful, loving, introspective, aware and forgiving. More natural. And the center piece — I am more vulnerable. Revealing my heart and my truth at times is crazy scary, but it’s far less scary than having to face the complacency of never knowing what could be on the other side of revealing real, whole me. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ I am the puzzle. You are the puzzle. We are the puzzle. Piece by piece. We are whole. 🧩

Awe, the gift of time! Back in 2012 I gave a #TEDx

Awe, the gift of time! Back in 2012 I gave a #TEDx talk that included a story of how I finally stepped back into experiencing the joy of singing again, which was a lot more than the no-action paralyzing self-doubt I had been cementing myself in. Eight years later and I’ve woven my artistic expression and risk-taking business aptitude into a colorful tapestry. I’m not in anyone’s pocket and I’ve never kissed the ring. I’m proud of my purple path. 💜 I met Lorin Beller @changemakernation eight years ago when we shared the stage together, so for her to see me this way feels good. To be seen and feel understood is pure gold. ✨

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This gorgeous soul, Kathryn Cloward also known as Kathryn The Grape. There are many things that I feel make Kathryn a Change Maker... the first is her music geared to kids and adults, is uplifting and inspiring us all to be our greatest version of ourselves. Second she is a true artist/musician and it’s her ‘work’ too. She’s figured out how to make it her ‘work’. I always admire people that find what they love and make it their life's work. I love when artists figure that out for themselves. Third, Kathryn has a huge heart. She sets intention, follows through and it ripples outward. It’s simply how she lives her life. She is a true #changemaker.⁠
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