Places to Crash in Seattle/Vancouver (got one?), Webcast Tomorrow, Campersand.... (Patreon)

Hallo loves.

Random post of randomness...and why not....I made a tiny frazzled kitchen video for you...and I just wanted to do a little check-in and housekeeping. 

I'm fragile. Divorce is hard. Parenting is hard. I love it...but it's hard. To top it all off: living alone in the woods in the dead of winter is also VERY hard. I love the woods in the summer. Winter....harder. I twisted my goddamn knee and have to go see an orthopedist because it's not healing. My body feels slow and sticky. That's hard. Things are taking shape too slowly for my taste. I feel hungry and anti-social at the same time. But as Glennon Doyle reminds us, WE CAN DO HARD THINGS!!!

I am doing them daily!!

I know you are, too. I am fucking proud of you. Whatever hard thing you are doing....I am proud of you. Really. (And having read through the Omega Scholarship applications....fuck, are some of you doing some Hard Things. Good God).

I'm also feeling huge daily doses of perspective. 40,000 fucking people dead in the earthquake? My friends in New Zealand flooded and without electricity? The post-covid (and long-covid) vibe in America in general? Oof. Many of the the little kids around here seem anxious and sad. Hard to tell what's winter, what's divorce, what's me, what's covid, what's The Woods. Who knows? The soup tastes a little bitter, but I know I fucking have soup to eat, and I know many people right now have no soup, or are ... dead. No eating any soup when yer dead.

So....I count my blessings every minute that I can give Ash a life of relative safety, ease and bounty. There's always food on the table. I have my patreon. I can roast vegetables (and do, almost daily). My friends are increasingly incredible and empathetic as they learn what I'm going through and hear the long, winding horror story of the past three years and what I've had to hide from the world and struggle with internally. 

From all of this, from the ashes of this winter: the dolls record. Really. It's time to write it. From the cracks of this sidewalk's end....will come the weeds that will sprout into the tree that will sprout into the album. Or something like that.

UPSIDES: I'm scouting around here for a space to do an UPSTATE NINJA GIG. We need it. Yeah?? You down??

And a couple housekeeping things...

1. WEBCAST TOMORRROW!!! It's been a while.

IF you haven't RSVP'd to tomorrow's webcast, please DO. I'm over there chatting right now and the vibe is always so sweet and connected and mellow. I'll be webcasting from 11:11am EST til about 1ish (probably later) and talking songwriting, upcoming record, surviving hard things, answering questions....and the usual. If you've never tuned into a webcast, it's always fun and I always feel better for having done it and I think everybody else does too.

It's for $10+ patrons only to keep it small, and there's about 100 people already RSVP'd. You can  up your patronage just to check it out and see if it's your speed and then drop down if you wanna. Start leaving questions in the box!

Link to RSVP now is here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/v5xbotyj

2. CAMPERSAND 2023!!!!....is

THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT SPOTS LEFT!!!!! The majority of the tickets flew in the first 24 hours....so these could go any minute. If you've been on the fence about coming, HOP OFF.

It's July 2-7th in upstate New York, you'll be with me and a bunch of artists and writers and poets and movement people, and you'll make friends for life. All the info about it is HERE in this patron-only post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/78463483

next up...

3. THE TOUR!!!

My tiny solo piano tour is selling beautifully. Boston and Poughkeepsie are near sold out (Boston is very very close, just about 100 tickets left), and Tacoma (which holds about 2,000) is getting there.

HELP ME SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE TOUR, please, and get tickets if you haven't already. All the tickets are here: https://amandapalmer.net/events/

...and here's a FB post to share & a tweet to RT. 

HEADS UP, VANCOUVER....my usual NINJA TED BENEFIT is gonna happen in APRIL!!!! Hold the phone, announcement coming....

4. PLACES TO STAY....!!

WHILE I HAVE YOU HERE....if you live in Vancouver or Seattle, Michael and I are looking for places to crash. We're working hard and have long show days, so we need beds and quiet (no pull-out couches in the living room this time round)....but as long as we can both get a bed and closing door and it's near the venue, HOUSE US! We wanted to reach out to the patrons before booking hotels near the venues.

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....and don't worry, CATS ARE A BONUS. We are nice house guests and do not bite. Email Michael at:  xxxx

xxx

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