upcoming show, bd, etc

i made this poster for james - nice and bold and plain, as he likes it. my bd is upcoming & the family has asked me what i want to do, but what i really want is a tiny house here so that they all will visit and feel how much cooler it is here than in bakersfield, how much cleaner the air is, & how peaceful it is. then they will want to be here more. but since the 2nd tiny house was sold out from under me two days ago, i don´t guess i´ll get that wish. but my god, what a golden problem. as part of mama´s bd yesterday, i sat w/her & listened to rachel maddow, her favorite pundit. usually the truths that maddow reveals & connects are too hard for me to stomach. i cry & get mad. but mama is strong & watches her nightly so ¨sheĺl ¨never get caught off guard again, like i was in 2016.¨ maddow spoke last night about the emmett till federal memorial dedicated today, her point being that we don´t give up in the face of violent hate. (3 memorials to the little boy brutally murdered by pieces of human dogsh*it over the decades have been vandalized & destroyed -- inexplicable!!! how can such blatantly violent racism still exist????? -- but this latest one weighs 500 lbs & is made of titanium or some other indestructible material & now it´s a federal crime to deface it, so go ahead, racist dogsh*t subhumans, vandalize it now & go to prison!!!) i was reminded by that bright, brave woman´s commentary (rachel´s, tho mama fits that description, too) that my life is a piece of cake & always has been, so i´d better do something to make the world a bit better every damned day. most immediately, that means making my husband´s life better & easier. we talked just now about moving the music room to the main floor of the house. i hope we do it. soon. hereś to getting to get old, getting to keep having life, getting the chance to become better. too many in this beautiful, horrible world don´t have those luxuries.