Over the summer, I've treated myself to a bit of radio silence. My days were instead filled with amazing adventures, road trips, and fruitful projects. Dropping off the grid was just what my head and heart needed to experience life to the fullest. I earnestly recommend it. So, here's a few life updates that blissfully blur the line between my personal and professional worlds:

• For two weeks in July, I poured every ounce of my energy into Dispatch:Zimbabwe, three sold-out concerts at Madison Square Garden featuring my friends Brad, Chad, & Pete, the awesome African Children's Choir, and the coolest drummers around. I hosted, danced, handed out merch, laughed, toured, schmoozed, prayed, and sang along with 20,000 people each night. What a thrill!


• I released my travel documentary, The Road Trip, that follows four friends into upstate New York for a wedding. It's thirty minutes of hilarious antics.


• At the Museum, we introduced a new planetarium show called Field Trip to the Moon, and produced a rich collection of educational materials to go with it.


• In August, I spent an incredible eight days in Nicaragua with my Love Light & Melody family. We worked with the La Chureca community in Managua, where hundreds of people live in a trash dump, rode the waves in the Pacific, and started vision-casting our organization's next steps. There are so many stories to share: I filled an entire moleskine journal!


• The Deutsche Bank Building across the street from my apartment caught fire, forcing me to evacuate for a day. Yikes.


• I relaunched two incredible sites this week. Dispatch Foundation, who is distributing the proceeds from the Dispatch concerts to grassroots organizations in Zimbabwe and inspiring fans to change the world. And Metropolis Ensemble, a NYC-based orchestra of young emerging musicians and composers.

It's been a busy and abundant summer of opportunity. And this fall promises to be more of the same. Haven starts up in a couple weeks. Mom and Dad are planning a trip to visit the city. I'll be in Florida, Virginia, and moving (yup you read that right) to Brooklyn.

This weekend? Headed to Long Island to visit my cousins. We're never at a loss for fun things to do...