Mondays

I, too, miss the things you mentioned, Jess, such as the kg.com blahg, videos and the shoutbox as they originally were. but now there are bigger and better things from Kina to us! :) ❤

: ) Thanks for reading my deliriousness of a response and getting something out of it, haha! But yes, keep writing and continue sharing your thoughts, because I love them ever so much, Kina. Your views on life are often quite inspirational. And it's even better that it felt great to you, too!

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I love these ideas, Jess! Thank you! And that means a lot that you appreciated the blog back in the days. It's crazy how long it's been since I've sat down and written like that, but doing it this past Monday felt so great and right and I'm definitely excited to get back to sharing more of my life in that way. <3

Gosh why are you guys the best. Thank you Ryan :)

Yes, my body is definitely on strike :( Thank goodness it held out until tour was over!

Thank you so much for understanding and supporting, Graham! That really means a lot!

Brian and Eric! Hello! This is definitely something that has crossed my mind. I think for the time being I will still aim to make a couple videos a month, and if that's the case, I will still be getting full on support from all my Patrons, but this is really a big thing that I'll have to think about and perhaps discuss with everyone in the future. What I want to avoid is making anyone feel like I'm taking advantage of them. I agree that perhaps in the future making a "creation" for me might make sense to be one of various types of media, but I will definitely discuss that with everyone first if it comes to that and allow people to adjust or stop supporting as they feel appropriate. Thank you guys so much for your complete support of my art, whatever that may be, it means so much to me!

I have always felt a deep kinship with your Worrying, and so it's really impressive to me that both the start and end of your weekly videos have come in response to spurs of the moment, whether it be Jesse's suggestion or loss of voice. We try to calculate every possibility, but there's always one we never saw coming and like you say, the worrying doesn't change a thing. The grace with which you responded to these sudden changes is a really admirable character trait, both in itself and for how hard I'm sure it was to earn. So bravo! and hopefully the universe won't test that grace too often! :D

Eric Hofmann

I was going to say the same thing. I want to support, and I want that support to be helpful. If weekly videos become rote, that's not helpful (although I gotta say I didn't notice any slip in quality), so I have no qualms with that going away. If trying to make Patreon work with multiple media types is stressful or overly complicated, that's not helpful either. I don't know! I only know I want to support. However you decide to set that up, I'm with you.

Eric Hofmann

Not the end for today after all--- because I realized that although I was responding to THIS post, I was also responding to your Tumbler post about touring and people and that is what reminded me of how I love reading your writing. Then I wrote to you and just a moment ago went back to this post and remembered I forgot to tell you--please rest your voice and hopefully it heals up soon and you can both sing and speak again. I tend to go for the tea-and-honey method when I lose my voice. And lots of soothing throat drops, but not too many menthol ones. Please feel better and get some rest if possible! Now the end for today really.

Oh, Kina. I love the way you write. One of my favorite memories of the pre-InYourArms and even pre-Valentine Kina era.... the memory of arriving home from work to read your always entertaining and/or emotionally evocative blog posts that would elicit many many indescribable feelings out of me... oh, how I loved reading your posts and feeling things. And then watching your videos and chatting in the shoutbox. Ah, days of yore! But you have come such a long way from that point, and I feel blessed to have been there "with you" in a sense to witness part of your journey. But I digress. So... Kina Mondays-- yes. Great ideas. The blog idea especially, because--as stated above--I love the way you write and I love reading the way you write and feeling feelings.... so... yes.... or something. And I, for one, would never be opposed to a potential Kina phone call for a quick chat. Or just the idea that you would call people to say hi... I think that is so special and meaningful and a wonderful way to connect with people. Hmmm... what else... Maybe an occasional Monday music tutorial? More than learning the songs themselves, I mostly just enjoyed watching you explain how you play your songs. It was infinitely more entertaining than Ultimate Guitar. I have a feeling I am not alone in this. ;-) Anyway, it was a fun way to learn your songs and smile. And one more idea--maybe a birthday and/or shoutout Monday? Where you can do your creative shoutouts like you used to do in previous videos but that is the entire video. Up to you how--maybe ask people to write in with shoutout requests and select a random few to share? Or lottery? Or Patron shoutouts only? I don't know. Just a thought. Or YOU could personally highlight and select your own people to give shoutouts to--could be for birthday reasons (ST members or patrons) or could be persons who awesomely cover of your own songs you've seen and enjoyed. You could give a creative shoutout to some of those peeps. I hope I half-made sense here. I am kind of tired but felt like responding. In conclusion, keep being real and being you. And yes... people are lovely and the world is a crazy and beautiful place. And keep putting good out into the world because the good will always come back, especially in ways you'd least expect. That is my theory. The end for today.

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Kina Mondays are always something to look forward to, whether it is a vid or some other interaction and I would not want the videos to be like a chore! You gave us a really nice insight into Oh Father recently and I would love to hear the stories behind some other songs. Hope your voice recovers! The world is better when you sing!

Love the idea, but consider how this impacts your creations on Patreon. Does a Tumbler post count? Personally, I don't think a creation has to be a music vid. Just want there to be enough content on here so support continues. Maybe it could mean a few extra projects this year such as a holiday album next December, or something like that (I am hoping for another round of co-write with Kina.

Kina, take it easy! Your body knows that you can allow yourself some rest now so it has gone on strike! This often happens to me after a big effort (ie. I catch a nasty cold or so when something is finished) . Besides, I don’t think that anyone here takes your commitment too literally so we will be happy about anything you come up with. Unfortunately, I am right in the middle of a big effort myself so I have no time yet to write up any suggestions. I’ll be back on the weekend (unless my body goes on strike then!). Stefan

Kina, i love the new Mondays idea. One of my favorite things about you is that you allow your fans to get to know you. your singing and art do have me looking forward to Mondays, but the minute with you talking about what's go for you are equally enjoyable! I love those minutes :) looking forward to many Kina Mondays no matter how they are set up. Even if ya miss some, don't worry, we all love you! PS I hope your voice feels better soon -ryan

Ryan Keech