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Hold of and felt... i felt helped by those responses. and so some, i think a couple of years later, i just started up the red hand files. in a more general kind of way. ask me anything. i'm a musician, ask me anything. but the questions very quickly became about other things. and it wasn't. .. it was both me and the audience pushing pushing the conversation outwards. it seemed like it was a salve for you and a salve for the people that were writing the letters. it was, yeah. when you say it was an act of generosity, i think that works the other way too. i feel that when people write in to the ...

I have to balance them and look at... you know, i mean, sometimes there's several in a row that are kind of grim and i try and lighten the mood with another one and so forth. so it is a little bit of a balancing act. and i wonder in that sense if there's anything that's off limits that you would have to answer? yeah, there's a lot of things i won't answer, mostly because i don't think those questions have necessarily come in good faith, i would say. and so i don't... there's too much in there of value to write about. i wonder if the red hand files were a form of ministry. well, i wouldn't. . ....

And so some, i think a couple of years later, i just started up the red hand files. in a more general kind of way. ask me anything. i'm a musician, ask me anything. but the questions very quickly became about other things. and it wasn't. .. it was both me and the audience pushing pushing the conversation outwards. it seemed like it was a salve for you and a salve for the people that were writing the letters. it was, yeah. when you say it was an act of generosity, i think that works the other way too. i feel that when people write in to the red hand files and spend a lot of care and attention a...

Of value to write about. i wonder if the red hand files were a form of ministry. well, i wouldn't. . . that seems a little highfalutin. you know, i never saw it in that way. i think the red hand files for me was a way to learn how to articulate certain things that were going on me with the help of the people who wrote in. so it felt like something we were doing together and that that's been enormously helpful. and i think it's been helpful to other people, too. and that's. .. ..how to write about something. it's actually quite difficult, quite different than how to speak about something. and i...

When you say it was an act of generosity, i think that works the other way too. i feel that when people write in to the red hand files and spend a lot of care and attention around what they write to me, they are acts of generosity as well. and i mean, you get thousands of requests. it's a difficult decision, isn't it? because you can't answer them all. you can't answer. yeah, no. i have to balance them and look at... you know, i mean, sometimes there's several in a row that are kind of grim and i try and lighten the mood with another one and so forth. so it is a little bit of a balancing act. ...