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happy sunday everybody, relationships are hard. (Patreon)

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2019-02-17 17:53:28
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2023-04

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hallo loves

happy sunday....here's this morning's voiceramble, it's about 15 minutes long and it's a weird and personal one...and i have a second to type here, so i'm gonna.

https://soundcloud.com/amandapalmer/voiceramble-feb-17-2019

if you want to READ this ramble, and the entire archive of voice rambles lovingly transcribed by alex, CLICK HERE 

i talk in this ramble about how fucking hard relationships are. they are. they are so hard. i know. you know.

neil and i have had a rough run the past few years....especially right after ash was born. we almost didn't make it through a few patches.

but: once in a while, they're not...well, maybe not EASY, but not quite as hard.

and it's nice to take a moment of gratitude in the spare cracks of time to acknowledge that life isn't always a relentless shit-pile. 

i have been loving reading all of your comments after these voicerambles. thank you for writing back with your thoughts, your insights, your lives. i love reading, and i love that you are reading about one ANOTHER'S lives...off-facebook. it makes me happy.

this is such a loving, intelligent, non-judgemnetal group of people. it's a really special and unique thing we've got here. in the gratitude department, i've feelin' that. i don't take for granted that a group of 14,000+ people on the internet are all this nice.

pat yourselves on the backs.

.......

AN UPDATE about voice-ramble transcription!!!!! alex has been working on transcribing all of these rambles (bless him) and we've just been a little slow uploading them...but we are going to retroactively edit ALL the voicerambles (i'll let you know, with links) so you can read and catch up if you're not able, for whatever reason, to listen!!!

trying to make all of y'all happy.

AN EDITED UPDATE FROM ALEX: the transcriptions are up! all of them are being compiled in one big ol' google doc, which you can find here. every post will link directly to that specific ramble's transcript, but you'll be able to scroll at your leisure through the entire archive of transcripts. YAY!

...........


here's the solution i finally found to make our old-ass bathtub shorter. there was a huge iron pot in our basement. it more or less worked! i rested my feet on it and got a lot more relaxy. as relaxy as you can get in 40 degree water. i still ow you all a blog about my cold bath habit...i know.


.....

dept of random:

yesterday i got to do a couple of fun things...

like 

....put some printed sheet music for "let it go" into a burning fire...

....and give a cuddle to a little boy who turns 2 today (rachel & clare's baby asa...they came to visit us). today, neil gaiman is making pancakes. everything's looking up.

and i got a haircut - it's tour, i gotta at least make an effort - and speaking of frozen....anna goals ACHIEVED.


........

this upcoming week is going to be RIDICULOUS.

ridiculous. i am going to be 

-dropping a new song,

-announcing the global (and my local) listening parties,

-putting the UK/EUROPE tour dates on sale (if you missed them, i announced the cities and dates to patrons only, HERE)

-getting a street team to promote the tour/record together (I WILL NEED YOU)

and

GETTING READY TO TOUR THIS BITCH.

my whole stage/tour crew is about to descend on my house in woodstock and the first warm-up show is THIS FRIDAY. i can't believe this all happened so fast.

but it did.

ready?

ready.

ready.


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------THE NEVER-ENDING AS ALWAYS---------

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Anonymous

"Take a moment to look at what you've accomplished in your life, not your job life... Stop for no reason sometimes and look around and say, I did that. Go me." Thank you for this. This is something that I know that we do not do anywhere near enough. I have an insanely hard time separating the job life from the life life... Someone once told me that they can be one and the same, to try not to see a separation between the two of these, but I struggle with that idea so much. So so much. I want it to be one and the same, and sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't, as the job life invades so much of the time... (I am a high school music teacher - I don't know if I have said that to you before or not)... Anyways... All of that to say thank you for this and I love you.

Anonymous

Now I don't feel so weird that I really do genuinely both miss my partner when he's away and enjoy the times I get to be alone. I always thought I'd spend a few years living alone and being alone before I found someone I wanted to share it all with. That didn't happen and now we are 9 years in and 32 years old and it'sso fucking nice to see that there are so many paths to walk and everyone's can be different. We don't need our life to fit into a certain shape, we can just do our best and continue to support each other in the ways we need and grow and kick all the goals and cry and laugh and just enjoy the ride! 😍😍

Anonymous

Yes, relationships are hard, lovely artist woman - but do you know how truly rare what you and Neil have is? I was so intensely *envious* (in a longing way, not an evil way) of what you 2 have... have had such a challenge finding the correct fit in my own life, lost out on the chance to have kids (in a partnership as I wanted for myself) because of that... I am turning 50, I have had 7 years since I have had to finally move on, and now my fertility is truly fading.... you are FORTUNATE, you are BLESSED. I know you know this. In moments of doubt, ask yourself.... Is Neil the man that (you) want to wake up to when you are 80, and help pop in his dentures, scrub his back for him and possibly wipe each others bums if needed.... If he needs to be fed at the age of 102 (universe willing), are you willing to wipe the food off his chin and make him smile so he feels dignity and acceptance? If you can imagine that and know he feels the same towards you, then it is worth fighting for. The rest is white noise &amp; b.s. that can be figured out along the way.

Anonymous

Dear Amanda: this is luminous. Love, Chrissy M

Anonymous

so ready!! by the way I've decided to comment on the voicerambles on sound cloud and comment here about the rest of the blog post :) your bathtub is gorgeous and I love it even though I much much much prefer showers to baths (and hot water to cold)...so I'm very excited to hear what you find so alluring about ice baths (shiver!) :D

Anonymous

For the last two weeks on Mondays during my airshifts I've been discussing your work and providing tour details, since I'm central Midwest and several of your shows are equidistant of our county (STL, Kansas City, Chicago). My partner and I already bought our tickets online for St. Louis and I've invited friends. I may have to ask people one-on-one if they'd like to make it a whole trip.

Dorit
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I second this. I have trouble with the same thing. Thank you to you and Amanda for voicing it.

Anonymous

This is the realest shit ever.

Anonymous

Parenting (for me) has been about finding a groove, having that groove demolished, finding another groove, seeing that groove eliminated, etc. Rewarding, of course, but challenging in ways you just can never anticipate, always smacking you down in a way that is very special to you.

Anonymous

i'm catching up on these voice posts and this is so beautiful. really resonating for me

Anonymous

The quest for Anna hair has made me smile this evening. Will listen to the voice post soon!

Anonymous

I was a single mom for a while back in the day and when I married my husband, I remember calling my single parent friends asking them when he was going to go HOME! I was used to dates going away when I was done with them. But we raised a family and didn't kill each other. I fall in love with him every day. I love being empty-nested. We were never ever alone alone until the last one left. We travel now and spend time together and really love each other. And we say no all of the time so we can do our own thing.

Anonymous

I am not here for hard relationships lol. If a relationship is work then I'm out. Life's hard enough without making it harder.