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hello my loves.

surprise….i’m thinging this today, on the one year anniversary of anthony’s death... 

for laura, his wife, and one of the special-ist people i know.

it’s a beautifully montage-ed video made from footage taken at the spiegeltent at the sydney festival  - january of 2014 - set to the studio recording that brendan and i made in secret while i was there in oz two years ago. we've been waiting all this time to put it out at the right moment. 

it’s now, and it’s for her. i'm sending her all of my love today, and i hope you do too - she needs it. (she’s a patron, by the way, so she can read any comment below...you might want to take this moment to shower her with light).

one year. little anthony was 7 months fetal, and now he's 9 months out of the womb. he's wonderful. 

and coming home from the UK has been glorious (it's warm!) but i'm still collapsing from the three marathon weeks of making NEW (hooray) music with edward. i can't wait for you to hear the new creations and words and sounds. for any of you who may be grumpy that this is yet another cover song....i know. it isn't escaping me. but rest assured, there's more new shit coming that you'll know what to do with, so don't worry.

without further ado, here it is.

as usual, i wrote a longer story and the video is embedded on the forever-project page....

VOILA:

http://amandapalmer.net/laura

...........

the video is totally public, as usual, share it away anywhere you want.

(the song is also on bandcamp for $.50 to cover publishing costs....unless you're a $3+ patron, watch for your download code which is coming in a second).

you're all the glitter in the dark.

and i love you so much.

thank you for being with me in this horror show of love and beauty.

x

AFP

p.s. a kind note that brendan, my collaborator on this song, will be getting half the net of the proceeds after costs/publishing/etc....but if you want to support him further HE HAS HIS OWN PATREON….go support him.

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Anonymous

That is so absolutely beautiful. I've never heard this before. Thank you. I'm sitting on the carpet of my new house that I'm renting in New Zealand and your thing is a treasured gift to me. My life is so busy and ever time I get something from you it's like a secret, love filled gift right to me. Thank you a million times for being amazing and being you. What an amazing man Brendan is too

Lee-ann Dunton

Sending all my love to both you & Laura.

Theresa S.

That was...amazing. Thank you. And all my thoughts to Laura.

Fable

All the love and support to you and Laura

Hope H

This split my heart wide open in the best of ways. Tears I don't know I was holding in pour out and I'm washed in the sadness and beauty of grief. Finally, the dog we just adopted, the one who I had begun to question was right for our home, rests his paws on my lap, lets me cry in his neck, and licks the tears away.

RiverVox

I'm so glad to take a small part in making this happen. In Jewish tradition, we light a candle on the anniversary of a loved ones' death and pray that it brings peace to their soul. I know it would bring peace to his soul to know that you are still thinking of Laura. I hope she knows that we remember him and wish her well.

Bella

I am so grateful to have had Anthony in my life through his books, and Amanda's stories, and through Twitter. It is a great, great blessing and I think of him, and Amanda, and Laura, (and Neil and Ash) every day. It's a wonderful, wonderful world and I'm so glad to have lived at the same time as Anthony and all of you. Anthony and I were sick at the same time. I asked him if I could hold healing ceremonies for him -- distance healing -- and he said yes. I was so excited and honored. Energy medicine had been of such help to me in my battle for health, and I was so pleased to have been given permission to try to help him as well. In the last days of Anthony's life when so many people were sending him healing energy, I was both anguished and so so comforted. I didn't feel crazy anymore about offering healing energy the way I had before asking Anthony if I could try and he accepted. Here were all these people doing the same thing in their own way, and it was loving and beautiful, not kooky or new age or unscientific. It was just love. And healing, at different levels, was happening. When Anthony tweeted out a picture of Laura, I could see in the photo the love that she kept for him and that he shared with her. So much was visible in that photograph. Amanda, Brandon, thank you for this cover of one of my favorite songs. Thank you, thank you. Laura, thank you for shining your light into this world. Your love and influence in your life indirectly lit a lamp in my own life, and I am eternally grateful. I wish Anthony had lived. I wish healing would have taken place on all levels. I wish he were here watching this glorious horror show, in this time and space. I'm glad he's not hurting. And I feel his consciousness around me sometimes, and always when I open one of his books. I love you all.

Anonymous

i saved this because i knew i would need it later. today things built up and i needed to cry about love inside of sorrow instead of hating and anger. thank you for this. it is lovely.

Lisa

I know I'm late to this, but I wanted to save it for a time when I can sit and lusten to/ watch it properly. It's beautiful.

Deniz Bevan

Amanda! Hi! I feel so badly not commenting every time you ask but I never really get a chance to log in and so now, when for once I am actually logged in, I went back to this post because it's the first in a whole list of "reply to AFP on this" links to various Patreon messages from you. Now that I'm here, what to say? I don't know. I love being a part of this Patreon because it really feels like being part of a new way of looking at art and creation and artists (whether singers or writers or whatever), that seems to finally, slowly, be bringing the world around to a realisation that creativity has value. Sure, artists have had patrons before, but I think this is the first time creators are realising that the act of creation has worth and that they don't need to grovel to get paid a fair, living wage for their choice to create. Or something. I had all sorts of coherent thoughts at 3 am but they're all gone now. {{hugs}} to you and Laura, and oh! please give us more updates on Ash! He's very cute :-) My daughter turns 2 next week -- I love reading baby updates :-) xo

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