Gratitude, an Invitation, and Ep 4 of Behind The Songs!

I love these little insights to your thoughts. Thank you for sharing. Really goes to show that artists are people too. Keep the insights coming. Keep inspiring. Keep being so beautifully YOU! ❤️

Andrew Arche

Thank you Kina for sharing your stories & experiences, I love the videos & I’m so grateful that you are doing this. Your kindness & compassion towards Clancy & all your small creatures has inspired me over the years. I have a greater appreciation for being outdoors, listening to the birds sing in the park & of course watching the squirrels eat an acorn. Thank you for sharing your wisdom & life lessons too. <3

This is my favorite episode so far. I don't know. It just is. I hope you're well! :)

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ah no way!! that's amazing. giant welcome to the family :) it's a pleasure to e-meet you!

New to the patreon, but your cover of "Fast Car" with Boyce Avenue has been my most played song on Spotify the past two years. Thanks to the invention of daily mixes, I discovered the beautiful song that is "For Now" and haven't looked back. Super excited to be even a small part of KG records, and hope I can make it out to a tour date at some point in the future!

Troy Bane

Your story reminds me of when I was very young. We found a baby starling abandoned on the ground. It was so young it was covered in down, couldn't fly, couldn't walk. We took it in and raised it. We fed it through an eye dropper at first, and when it grew stronger we researched what it should be eating and tried to teach it where to find the foods it should eat. The starling grew very attached to us and us to him or her, not sure which. We taught it to fly but it did not want to go. It would follow us everywhere. We tried to get it to interact with flocks of starlings but it preferred our company. It was fun having the starling with us, but we knew it needed to be with its own kind. When we were sure it could find its own food and fend for itself, we stopped feeding it and stopped letting it land on us and follow us everywhere. It would fly right outside our windows, begging to be let in, but we knew it needed to be back with its own kind. Eventually it got the message and started trying to kind of hang out with the local starlings, but it was shunned and always seemed to be hanging on the perimeter, just outside the flock, not quite knowing how to get into the group. Broke my heart watching our little friend caught between two worlds, not fitting in either one. Not sure what the point of that story is, I just was reminded of it by your video. Not so easy raising another being. So often we have the best of intentions but the right path is not so obvious, and if we are mistaken it's not so clear until the decision is already made and the consequences played out. Love and compassion are the guiding lights, but we are all fallible and even the best of intentions sometimes end up in heartbreak.

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😭rikard. thank you so much for sharing this. and you haven't drifted into the weird zone at all! that's such a vulernable thing to share, but man does it mean so much to me. sending you lots and lots of love and hope you've been feeling a little lighter lately <3

Kina, you’re capacity for compassion for creatures both great and small never ceases to amaze me! This is one of my very favorite songs of yours. I’m not often moved to tears. But I bawled my eyes out every time I heard this song for weeks. Sending thanks and love.

Casey Braun

I love these videos so much and I will forever be grateful to be part of KG Records! Because of you,​ I am able to connect and learn and grow as a human being. Thank you for being who you are Kina <3

Listening to your tale, I remembered something that happened some two years ago. We have birdhouses around our house and in the garden. It is mostly sparrows nesting in there, two or three times in spring and early summer. I am very fond of them, even though sparrows are normally perceived as very uninteresting birds. One day I watched a young bird, a tiny, tiny sparrow that had clearly just left the house for its first flight. Unfortunately, it landed on the ground, and our tomcat was there before me, and I could not rescue it. It does hurt. Btw, I owe you an email re. History. Watch out, in early August I may have time to write it (still very busy now).

When I was a kid, around four-five years old, I had a small parakeet, which died. We buried it in the backyard. I couldn't handle missing it so much, so I dug it up and kept it in an old chocolate box under my bed. Until my mom found it, and we buried it in the backyard again. I haven't thought of that in years.

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Erik Smith

Loved this!! :) I wrote something else below that I've wanted to share for a while. Your videos and songs have been part of my life for so long now and recently there's been a new feeling of comfort attached to it all. I can't find the words to describe it very well, but something happened a while back that might explain it better. I listened to your cover of Kiss Me at the morning of release, once. I then had a really hard day adding to sadness that had built up inside me for a long time. I laid on my bed that evening and after a while I decided to listen to your cover again. 30 seconds in I was bawling harder and longer than I have in years. Needless to say it felt good to let it out. In this instance I knew the song wasn't the catalyst - I'd only heard it once before - it was hearing your singing. That's the comfort I feel now. I feel I'm drifting into the weird-zone now, so I'll leave it at that. (That evening I listened back and forth to Kiss Me and Never Never. "Wish we'd never never grown so close so we could fall apart. And if it was lost, would I be lost? Would we be lost?" hit me extremely hard, thinking of my younger brother. But we'll be ok. It's a wonderful song and I'm so glad you chose to re-record it ♡) Have a great weekend, Kina!