Dear Jacob, thank you for taking the time to listen pal. It's early days with only a really small audience, so to read this just means the world. Wishing you a great day and keep in touch! Jim
I just love the way you write - it is so poetic, so beautiful! And authentic, not following any formula, which is what makes it so refreshing and special. So yes, it has an audience; yes we are listening and reading! Please do keep going! 🙏🏽💖
Thank you for these beautiful and encouraging thoughts! It's so early in my journey here and I'm figuring out so much. Every bit of feedback like this is like a breadcrumb plotting out my path. Thank you for being an early guide, Magda, means the world! x
I've started delving into your Substack page and I'm really enjoying it. Thank you! I'm sure you know by now how much I appreciate you, your music and your very helpful advice for artists! I firmly believe in expressing gratitude, so a big thank you once again. Seriously, it does mean a lot.
I am so sorry to hear that your mum has passed away. My mum has also passed away and I truly believe that grief is love, and love lives. Music and the arts helps me so much. I found what you wrote here about writing extremely interesting. I think you certainly have a gift for words. I knew this from your songwriting, but to also see it here, in your newsletters and in your IG posts, all in different but cohesive forms, is just so impressive and unique. It's poetry man. You inspire me. So, THANK YOU. Keep doing what you're doing. I am very grateful 🙏. Take care and I hope you're having a nice weekend.
Dear Iestyn, I'm so enjoying following your journey too, and it's a real joy to be in touch. I'm sorry too to hear about you Mum, oh pal, I hope all is okay as it can be. What you write is so beautiful; grief is love - and the idea that love lives through it. I lost my dear Mum over twenty years ago. I've missed her always. Her last gift to me was to understand that life is short and to make the most of it. When you lose someone, you learn this beyond the cliche. Rather with a profound sense of mortality. I tell you Iestyn, something in me knew when I saw your songs on IG that there was a loss - you just know. It manifested as a "wow, this guy means it" - but I could sense the place where it was coming from. I just want to say that your open heartedness is very special. Trust in that and your talent, it will keep leading you on. There's good stuff waiting for you, and dam, you deserve it. I'm really glad to be in touch and grateful for our connection. Have a great week, and keep on diggin' in x Jim
Thank you for your patience reagarding the delay in me getting back to you! I am sorry about this. In truth, I've been putting it off as I've been searching for the right words to say as your message has touched me so deeply. Please know that from the moment I read your reply, my heart filled with joy, admiration, and love man! Thank you so much for your heartfelt, kind and encouraging words. They truly mean the world too me. If you don't mind, I'm going to print your comment out so I can read it as a reminder, to keep going with my purpose, to keep sharing! Your mum was so right. Life is short, and I want to make sure that I live mine with purpose, love and joy. To share my music, to help people; to give. My father has also passed away, and for a few years, I felt half alive. Like I was living half a life, but through years of self-work, self-love, music as medicine, I know feel ready to share. I am fully alive now, living. Being. Trying to give. My parents believed in me and now I truly do too. My mum advised me that I should live my own life, and I will do the best I can! Thank you for sharing your thoughts about my songs; I am so pleased that authenticity comes across. That was perhaps one of my worries before I started sharing my songs and message publicy. I truly believe in my message. I'm also very grateful for our connection and I'm so thrilled to be in touch. You were one of the first people I was introduced to in the social media space, and man, I tell you this, I feel so seen and heard. You inspire me, DAILY! Seeing your journey and advise makes me realise, even more so, that a career as an artist is possible and crucially, that helping people is too. So thank you, man. Seriously. I'm so grateful, not only for your guidance, encouragement, inspiration and positivity, but now your support too. I do not take it, or you for granted. I will make sure to keep diggin' in, as you say, and to keep sharing to help people and to lead a life of positivity, healing and love.
Thanks again, Jim. I hope you have an awesome weekend!
I do love these audio versions of your pieces. I read the written ones, always, but you do feel so near on these. And I am so happy to be here listening/reading, hearing and engaging with you. Having an attentive audience does mean so much, doesn’t it. Connecting, letting our thoughts & feelings get entangled with those of others… Once upon a time, I wrote poems and put them in a drawer, but they demanded to be let out.
Anyway, I think when we learn so much from our “failures” there comes a point when we stop really seeing them as such. I love reading your thoughts, feelings, perspectives; I appreciate your willingness to be vulnerable, to put yourself out there, to court failure, to LIVE your aliveness. I feel inspired & am honoured to witness and hold space for this way of being.
I hope you bring out those poems dearest Yi! Every time I read a comment or something you write I'm always stopped by your turn of phrase. I also really appreciate the feedback on the voice side. It's a new path, a lot of work. And when it reaches one person, it gives so much strength for the path ahead. Thank you x
Dear Magda, you just made my night! The support means just so very much - and the encouragement to.
I had a choice after the tour last year, one which I've come to at many junctions on the artistic road.
I knew that if I was to go on, I had to humble myself utterly before the path. It meant also both taking a leap of faith, and knowing I would have to work harder than ever - even to have a chance of keeping on this road.
As such your backing comes at such an important time. It is much more than the subscription - it is the belief. That is unquantifiable - especially when you feel like you're starting out once again and there is a mountain before you.
I'm not sure where you live - but if you ever make it to a show in Germany (or beyond!), please let me know - it would be my absolute pleasure to guest list you and some friends as a thank you!
That was some incredible voice work! Inspired to experiment further with what audio narration can sound like.
Dear Jacob, thank you for taking the time to listen pal. It's early days with only a really small audience, so to read this just means the world. Wishing you a great day and keep in touch! Jim
That's very good to hear. I think you're getting the fundamentals in place and great content will always grow and lead to fruit!
I just love the way you write - it is so poetic, so beautiful! And authentic, not following any formula, which is what makes it so refreshing and special. So yes, it has an audience; yes we are listening and reading! Please do keep going! 🙏🏽💖
Thank you for these beautiful and encouraging thoughts! It's so early in my journey here and I'm figuring out so much. Every bit of feedback like this is like a breadcrumb plotting out my path. Thank you for being an early guide, Magda, means the world! x
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Hi Jim,
I've started delving into your Substack page and I'm really enjoying it. Thank you! I'm sure you know by now how much I appreciate you, your music and your very helpful advice for artists! I firmly believe in expressing gratitude, so a big thank you once again. Seriously, it does mean a lot.
I am so sorry to hear that your mum has passed away. My mum has also passed away and I truly believe that grief is love, and love lives. Music and the arts helps me so much. I found what you wrote here about writing extremely interesting. I think you certainly have a gift for words. I knew this from your songwriting, but to also see it here, in your newsletters and in your IG posts, all in different but cohesive forms, is just so impressive and unique. It's poetry man. You inspire me. So, THANK YOU. Keep doing what you're doing. I am very grateful 🙏. Take care and I hope you're having a nice weekend.
Much love, man.
Iestyn ❤️😀
Dear Iestyn, I'm so enjoying following your journey too, and it's a real joy to be in touch. I'm sorry too to hear about you Mum, oh pal, I hope all is okay as it can be. What you write is so beautiful; grief is love - and the idea that love lives through it. I lost my dear Mum over twenty years ago. I've missed her always. Her last gift to me was to understand that life is short and to make the most of it. When you lose someone, you learn this beyond the cliche. Rather with a profound sense of mortality. I tell you Iestyn, something in me knew when I saw your songs on IG that there was a loss - you just know. It manifested as a "wow, this guy means it" - but I could sense the place where it was coming from. I just want to say that your open heartedness is very special. Trust in that and your talent, it will keep leading you on. There's good stuff waiting for you, and dam, you deserve it. I'm really glad to be in touch and grateful for our connection. Have a great week, and keep on diggin' in x Jim
Dear Jim,
Thank you for your patience reagarding the delay in me getting back to you! I am sorry about this. In truth, I've been putting it off as I've been searching for the right words to say as your message has touched me so deeply. Please know that from the moment I read your reply, my heart filled with joy, admiration, and love man! Thank you so much for your heartfelt, kind and encouraging words. They truly mean the world too me. If you don't mind, I'm going to print your comment out so I can read it as a reminder, to keep going with my purpose, to keep sharing! Your mum was so right. Life is short, and I want to make sure that I live mine with purpose, love and joy. To share my music, to help people; to give. My father has also passed away, and for a few years, I felt half alive. Like I was living half a life, but through years of self-work, self-love, music as medicine, I know feel ready to share. I am fully alive now, living. Being. Trying to give. My parents believed in me and now I truly do too. My mum advised me that I should live my own life, and I will do the best I can! Thank you for sharing your thoughts about my songs; I am so pleased that authenticity comes across. That was perhaps one of my worries before I started sharing my songs and message publicy. I truly believe in my message. I'm also very grateful for our connection and I'm so thrilled to be in touch. You were one of the first people I was introduced to in the social media space, and man, I tell you this, I feel so seen and heard. You inspire me, DAILY! Seeing your journey and advise makes me realise, even more so, that a career as an artist is possible and crucially, that helping people is too. So thank you, man. Seriously. I'm so grateful, not only for your guidance, encouragement, inspiration and positivity, but now your support too. I do not take it, or you for granted. I will make sure to keep diggin' in, as you say, and to keep sharing to help people and to lead a life of positivity, healing and love.
Thanks again, Jim. I hope you have an awesome weekend!
Iestyn x
I do love these audio versions of your pieces. I read the written ones, always, but you do feel so near on these. And I am so happy to be here listening/reading, hearing and engaging with you. Having an attentive audience does mean so much, doesn’t it. Connecting, letting our thoughts & feelings get entangled with those of others… Once upon a time, I wrote poems and put them in a drawer, but they demanded to be let out.
Anyway, I think when we learn so much from our “failures” there comes a point when we stop really seeing them as such. I love reading your thoughts, feelings, perspectives; I appreciate your willingness to be vulnerable, to put yourself out there, to court failure, to LIVE your aliveness. I feel inspired & am honoured to witness and hold space for this way of being.
I hope you bring out those poems dearest Yi! Every time I read a comment or something you write I'm always stopped by your turn of phrase. I also really appreciate the feedback on the voice side. It's a new path, a lot of work. And when it reaches one person, it gives so much strength for the path ahead. Thank you x
Dear Magda, you just made my night! The support means just so very much - and the encouragement to.
I had a choice after the tour last year, one which I've come to at many junctions on the artistic road.
I knew that if I was to go on, I had to humble myself utterly before the path. It meant also both taking a leap of faith, and knowing I would have to work harder than ever - even to have a chance of keeping on this road.
As such your backing comes at such an important time. It is much more than the subscription - it is the belief. That is unquantifiable - especially when you feel like you're starting out once again and there is a mountain before you.
I'm not sure where you live - but if you ever make it to a show in Germany (or beyond!), please let me know - it would be my absolute pleasure to guest list you and some friends as a thank you!
Have a peaceful evening,
Jim