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My Spotify stats say I’m in the top .005% of all listeners and the number was top 15,000 or something I think. I’m both embarrassed and proud at the same time lol.

I’m chronically sick and wasn’t able to make it to any of his shows until the Mathematics tour. My best friend of over 30 yrs and I shared the day together and agree that it was one of our best days we’ve ever had. That show was ELECTRIC AND EPIC!!

We just attended the Minneapolis show on Saturday, and again, we are both absolutely in a state of awe, and blown away by not only his skill, but his artistry, his kindness, and the way he can bring a crowd together. I just can’t get over how good he is!!

I’ve seen many big name artists like Billy Joel, Elton John, Billy and Elton together, lots of Broadway shows etc etc. Both of Ed’s shows knock the shit out of all the other ones. Even when an entire crowd at a baseball stadium is singing Piano Man without Billy in the background. Ed’s concerts take the cake.

Listening to Ed’s music has gotten me through many infusion treatments and the sickness afterwards, breathing treatments, sauna treatments, moments when I get bad lab results, moments when I get good lab results, times when I drink and I’m angry (shout out to Erasure as my angry drinking song lol), and times when I’m high and happy. Or drunk and happy. 😂. His music has been there with me through a long abusive relationship and the divorce once I was able to get out, a recent long term relationship breakup, and a lawsuit as the plaintiff.

I’m a songwriter myself, and I have a degree in music composition and music therapy. I worked as a music therapist for nine years for a hospice until I got sick myself. His music was there for me then too.

And I watched the utter beauty of twinkling lights during Camera, and I will never hear that song the same way again. He sang Sapphire and Celestial, which are two of my favorites. I jumped up and down and sang, laughed, spent time with my best friend while we created our second “best ever day together”. I lived. I lived to see this.

She got us from Minneapolis back to her house and my parent’s house in Iowa (same area). I couldn’t get to sleep until at least 4:30 in the morning. I’ve watched the footage over and over and over again, and I’ve looked online to see what everyone else has. When I left my parents to come back to my home in Iowa, I cried for the first part of the way while listening to Camera. I cried before I even left the house and my parents understood that as a big fan, once it’s over it can be kind of bittersweet.

I’m not really even sure why I’m writing this. I guess to thank Ed for his years of music. For teaching me how to be a better songwriter. For being an inspiration. For being a humble and a good, kind human being in a world that is so mean.

I’m so grateful for all of it but now I just can’t stop crying because it’s done. I have all the beautiful memories, and all the videos and pictures I could take. But I’m sad that he won’t be coming back for a while. And that’s okay. He definitely deserves a break and time to be a dad and a husband. He’s been going at a speed I can’t really comprehend for many years in a row.

But I’m sad, and that’s okay. It’s crazy that someone I’ve never met has impacted my life so deeply in such a good way.

So a big thank you to Ed and his team for putting together a show so overwhelmingly beautiful that it brings people to tears. I will cry, and I will be okay, and I’ll see you at the next show whenever that is. I will keep fighting to live every day, not just for myself and my loved ones, but for moments like Saturday when I’ve felt the most alive since the show in 2023.

**oops. That’s suppose to say “do you like..”.
Quick question for those who bought the sapphire T-shirt. Do you like it? I feel like it doesn’t quite represent the song in the way I feel it should. Can you actually read the writing on it? I feel like the word sapphire should be more in blue and be more readable, but that’s just me. I think I’m gonna get the pink tour shirt with him holding up the guitar, but I’m on the fence about the sapphire shirt….

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Hey everyone, it’s basically the post title. I try to relax and consider it “me“ time, but I still have a hard time relaxing.

I’ve been waiting and waiting for a day where I could actually do my nails and today was one of those days. I put on some music that I feel I’ve been sort of “one“ with lately. I’m trying a new method with the Jello Jello peel off basecoat as well as using glue instead of tabs. So it was a new method and taking me an extra long time to kind of work through everything. However, even when I do my nails the normal way I do them, I still get anxious when I do them.

Does anyone else feel like this and what do you do to calm your nerves? I only have so many nails that fit and if I screw it up then I’ll be without a nail etc., etc.. It’s kind of embarrassing, but that’s just how it is for me.

The emotional whiplash from his texts have done a number on me. Fuuuuuuuckkkkk. When someone asks me to put myself in harms way when he knows it will make me sick due to the environment that caused my disability, it’s time to end things. A year and a half down the tubes. But cheers. 🥂

Hey! I have some questions about how to get over anxiety when it comes to partners. I attended the West Coast swing classes at my local college maybe a year or so ago? The way my college did them was that the women would stay in place, and the men would rotate around in a circle. I thought this was fine and a quite fair way to do it being that a lot of people are going without someone with them.

That said, I have a lot of anxiety when I have to let someone in my bubble – paired with the fact that I may not know the dance yet. I do better with a one on one partner that I can learn from and once I get the hang of it I can let myself go with other people. I don’t know if this makes any sense or not but I’m trying to explain the best I can.

To put it quite frankly, I don’t do well when people don’t have a sense of rhythm and are trying to do the dance, but can’t really lead. It messes me up while I’m trying to learn. Because I have a memory issue due to a disability, I really need a strong lead partner. And I need someone who is patient with me while I figure it out. My memory issue is not always there, but is exacerbated by anxiety. But if I get with someone who’s not a strong lead, I can get really confused because I don’t know where they’re leading me to go.

I met three strong leaders, and I do have their contact information, but I can’t seem to bring myself to contact them to dance. I don’t feel confident in the steps and when you do a lot of these moves, you have to let people into your bubble. As someone who has been raped several times I have a really hard time doing that. But my boyfriend doesn’t really want to learn to dance, so this is where I am. I really want to learn this dance and take it as far as I can go – athletic and all. The leads that I have experience with can execute the moves sort of decently, but don’t have the athleticism. And they seem kind of “stiff” even after doing it for a while. Like they can execute the moves, but they don’t really allow their body to move with the music and be expressive and bring out the musicality.

I’ve been swinging dancing for years and I think I was almost too lucky to find a professional dancer on a random day in a random situation that wanted to dance with me and so I had private free lessons all the time. That’s not the case right now as he moved.

So I’m trying to find someone who is extremely good that I vibe with really well. I’m a mix of all these emotions and I don’t understand how to untangle it.

Anyone have any advice for someone who is seasoned at dancing, but new at West Coast swing? I think I would be more comfortable with the people that are more loosey- goosy but a strong lead. Does that make sense? I think maybe other peoples’ stiffness is making me feel nervous on top of everything else.

TL;DR: I want a super athletic partner to push me into learning how to do this dance, but I don’t think there is one in this area. There are strong leads, but they’re pretty stiff and I don’t like people in my bubble. I’m not sure how to approach this. I can’t afford private lessons.

On Facebook dating, where you see all of your conversations, I have two people that have a purple camera next to their name. I cannot get a straightforward answer, no matter where I look, what AI answers, what Google answers, and there’s nothing on Facebook that I can find.

At first, I thought it was that they had verified their profile but everything I’m reading says no that’s not accurate. Another source told me it was a way to show that their account was a “professional account“ which I don’t understand because it’s a dating app. What the heck would a professional account mean in a dating app?

Does anyone know the actual answer to this?

So here’s my deal. I’m a guitar player and I’m looking for some ways to make sure that my press ons stay reusable (I’m super poor) and stay on. I currently I’m using the BTartbox sticky tabs. When I press down on the strings with my left hand I can feel the wiggle of the sticky tab. It drives me nuts.

I just bought some curve life glue, and I have some olive and June peel off basecoat. So I’m going to experiment with using glue for the first time, hopefully using basecoat as protection to my regular nail.

That said, if I can get the nails to feel more secure, I prefer to strum with my index finger and my thumb rather than use a pick. For most sets, they hang in there pretty well as long as I have a topcoat on. I’m a music therapist and may be starting to work again after being sick for several years. So my fingernails are gonna get more use than what they’re used to. For those who play guitar or any other instrument/job that uses nails in that regard, what’s your upkeep and how do you do it? I have to reuse nail sets because I’m too poor.

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