Atyya is a super sweet human being, a Canadian music producer. A decade ago traveled with him to my first official West Coast festival... It was actually in Costa Rica - Envision festival... Once we arrived we went out own way... I was staying with a bunch of folks in a house up the hill, he was camping at the festival.

One of the evenings, I remember eating a mushroom chocolate and suddenly being unable to keep dancing in the crowd, I was feeling everyone around me and behind me too intesely, so I escaped and ventured off into the Art Gallery. I went about standing in front of one incredible visionary art piece after another for what felt like forever, being taken on a journey through what felt like the entire process the artist moved their brush and art tools to paint the piece from start to finish. It was fascinating.

Then at some point while I was in the gallery standing in front of a liece Atyya found me. He was excited to share he'd met a lady friend he was getting cozy with 🙃 and was checking up on how my festival is going. I was happy for him and also couldn't join him out onto another stage yet... I stayed at the gallery.

We crossed paths multiple times over the years. Last he introduced me to what seemed like a serious girlfriend. I wish I could remember where, might have a been a club in LA or San Francisco or a NYE party somewhere. I have a feeling it was prior to 2020.

2020 onward feels like a weird disconnect for me. I am realizing it's feeling almost like amnesia about connections and friends from various communities... It's partly due to my own legacy social media unplug too the last couple of years...

But, I just checked Atyya's IG and I started crying, moved to tears to find out he is now a father of two!!!!😭🥹🌠🕊️🧿 Check out his music - atyya.komi.io

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