spontaneous bookstore hugs and what next… (Patreon)

hello my loves

just a short one from a face while i wait to pick ash up from an appointment. thinking, processing, watching the last leaves drop, releasing my shoulders after years of flight or fight or fright, trying on entirely new sets of clothes and laughing, having a coffee.

and ten minutes ago, after scanning through all the comments in the last post about wanting to Find My People in upstate new york, i answered a comment from megan who said she lived near rough draft bookstore in kingston and i commented and said there is a snowballs chance in hell you’ll see this but i am in rough draft bookstore RIGHT NOW if you want a hug and fucking hell 15 minutes later she walked through the door and look i made a friend

this is megan.

i love patreon. it reminds me of Olde Twitter. this is the sort of shit i used to do on twitter and nowadays never would.

my people. slowly…thank you ALL for the comments on that last post. i answered many of you.

and :

this photo just came in from coco, from her friend natalie deryn johnson…it’s actually a still from a little video she took of me singing at sophie strand’s book launch.

the strands. coco. sophie. natalie. megan. the bookstores and the churches and arms in which we find ourselves, accidentally. what it feels like to wake up to a pair of arms around you. a pair of pillow. a pair of eyeglasses on your face you never needed before. time.

i am thinking about what to release this month - besides the althing - and have a few ideas.

please talk to me…if you have feels or thoughts.

first of all, i’d love to record a christmas/holiday song with a friend here locally.

secondly, i’d love to write something about an experience i had this last week. i spent the day in coxsackie maximum security prison, listening to incarcerated men - many with life sentences - sing and tell their stories. remember my story about meeting “coyote” in prison - from the There Will Be No Intermission tour? that sort of thing. i have much on my heart and much to share and want an excuse to sit down and write about it. give me permission, please. or don’t. i’ll probably still do it.

thirdly - a few years ago, when we had more bandwidth, we put together a YEAR END patreon post where we wrapped up the highlights of the year and gave a lot that Thing Money to charity. if alex has the bandwidth the help me with the post we could do something like that as well…though i think we might “wrap up” the last THREE GODDAMN years because that’s how long it’s been since we did a charity-themed year-end wrap-up.

unless you’ll find that boring.

lots of people have joined the patreon in that last 3 years …. it might be nice to take a few days crediting a post (with download codes!!? and highlight reel of what we have managed to produce in the Covid Era. i dare say it might be healing.

in all reality i will probably only have the energy and time for one or two of these things so tell me what grabbed your excitement.

i want to be a good mom this christmas so i’m going to try really hard not to work long hours.

i love you all so, so much

happy rest of sunday xxxx a