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Coffee Date Hangout This Week!

Hi there,

May is upon us! How did we get here? Time seems to be both blowing by and moving at a snail's pace for me these past few months. The days have felt long, but the weeks, light-speed. Very odd. 

Anyway. Our May Coffee Date Hangout will be going down this Thursday at 11am PST! (Follow the link to see when that is in your local time zone.) Very excited to delve into all sorts of mental health/quarantine life/group therapy topics like we always seem to do together :) You can start posting and voting up questions for the Q&A at any point before the stream, and if you miss it live, you can always tune in after the fact.

How have you all been? Settling in to the new normal, or getting antsy and wanting out? Or both? Would love to hear how you've been coping and how all this has affected your lives up to this point. If you're willing to share, let us know how you've been and what's been going on in the comments section of this post.

Sending love and hoping this message finds you well and healthy. <3

xo

Kina


Coffee Date Hangout This Week!

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Timothy and Rosicler have asthma, my elderly father has Diabetes, and my mother has had multiple heart surgeries, so we have been self isolating in addition to the lock-down. Katelyn's been getting moodier and moodier, despite being on-line chat with her friends all the time. On-line social is not the same as human contact. I guess that is why I don't on-line well and much prefer to get out and see people in person. So the other day we decided that if we are going to be this reclusive, then we need to make room for responsible social interaction. I challenged Katelyn to schedule an afternoon date with her best friend in a park where they could wear masks and keep a safe 6 social foot distance, but still spend time together in person. She did it and I heard all about her bike ride along the river front with her fiend. They found Gartner Village, which was empty, and a ferry house with a note, that lead to another ferry house. They kept going until they found all 20 ferry houses. She came home feeling so happy and fulfilled. And for the first time in a month, she started writing music again. I hope you will hear her music one day, it is all amazing. Social distancing does not have to be isolation. We can all make this work.

Chris Derbidge

Feeling very healthy phisicaly &amp; feeling as the tallest MAN on the planet on a mental level. Once decited to let go from the Internet for a cuple of mounts early this year.. The corona news started to appear.. Hope this will change meny things and industries on the only planet WE share. In 3 or &lt; 3 languages Kina is a cuntry spelled China in English.. Very random I guess.. This year has been very special so far since have started to be aware about the phisical importandce more and more.. Peace

I thought I was doing well for the first month, but now I wonder if I was just ignoring the issues. Time didn't matter anymore, but living timelessly started to make nothing matter. I'm trying to get back on track, but I'm struggling.

Hi Kina, Maybe you could post updates like this only for $5+ tier people so I don't get disappointed when I try to join but realise I'm not in the right tier? :'(

Aaawww cgutted I won't be able to make it!! So many online hangouts with friends these days. Have a good one guys and girls ❤️😊

yay, i look forward to this months hangout! i am doing well so far. and since i'm stuck at home i'm starting to rearrange things in my room to get a new perspective. it works and it's very refreshing :)

Hey Kina. First: Coffee Date! YAY! Second, I'm doing well. The ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine ) here has meant that my family's resort that I help manage has been temporarily closed until further notice. We haven't laid off anyone yet (really hoping it doesn't come to that!). Which means I'm just home not working. Doing what I can to stay safe, healthy and sane is priority. Spending time with my family, doing housework, learning a little more about cooking from my wife (I'm more of a microwave-leftovers guy, though I have perfected my vegetable and cheese omelette), working out, and training with my son in both Filipino Martial Arts and a little boxing. I've also managed to release a new song, and finally started doing live acoustic performances on Twitch. Also went back to recording today. While I'm on the subject of music, right now I am listening to your Sounds Like Magic playlist on Spotify and chilling. And that's something that I'm really grateful for. Thank you so much for your music and your being you. It truly is such a healing gift. Lots of love and positive vibes to you and your family!

Will this hangout be open to all tiers of patrons?

My state will reopen next week but it will definitely be a new norm. Things won't be the same but maybe that's a good thing? Hope you're doing well Kina!

Just doing what I can to keep myself going with music by yourself, Jesse &amp; Marié (her new e.p is great) and podcasts but the loneliness can be hard to cope with from moment to moment.... Anyways I hope yourself and Jesse are doing safe and well 🙏 and always thank you for everything

Neetan Kalair

this has been a great time to not only not need but actively want NOT to be looked at by people this has been a terrible time to be hypersensitive to personal space this has been a great time to have the world at my fingertips, to push a button and receive the images and voices of my family, connect with all my friends this has been a terrible time to feel the world on my fingertips, to push a door and be aware of every object i'll touch before i can clean my hands this has been a great time to be good at math and know how much it means for people to voluntarily take on pain on the off chance it keeps someone like my dad alive this has been a terrible time to be good at math and know how much it means for people to proudly pour gasoline on a burning world my mom asks if i'll tell her if running their errands gets to be too much for me, and i truthfully say i will i don't say "too much compared to what" how many trips to a post office is worth a trip to a graveyard? today, i have everything i need

Eric Hofmann

I miss performing and I miss friends, but as someone who always has too much going on, I'm kind of thriving. My birthday was last week and it was pretty underwhelming, but I'm not adding it to my age, so it's okay. :) I'm starting and finishing projects that I didn't expect to even THINK about until the summertime. I think it's important that we all ask ourselves what we have more of during this time and work with that. I'll be coming out of this in a much better place in life. Hope you're well, Kina.


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