Yeah, after a long weekend of using it, I’ll have my cool, laid-back voice up in here

When: Monday nite 10/3, 7:30EST (doors open @7 for community hang)

Where: https://youtu.be/zvcMVUlVcC4

Who gets 10%: https://www.rosiesplace.org/
Easter Sunday 1974, Rosie’s Place was founded as the first shelter for women in the country. Rosie's Place offers a safe haven for Cis and LGBTQIA-plus- women and overnight shelter and other services to those in need who self-identify as female.

http://paypal.me/vancevancevance  or
https://venmo.com/vancevancevance  or
a check to VanceFunder P.O. Box 17,
Arlington, MA 02476 for this web-groovery.
Pay or not, up to you. Let’s stay connected.

This week's pyjamas - the ones with varieties of doggies

IN PERSON SHOWS:
A bunch of stuff with PAUL REISER - yeah that guy from Mad About You - see below

TONITE Friday 9/30 - East Lansing, MI Ten Pound Fiddle - https://www.tenpoundfiddle.org/event/vance-gilbert-2/  

NEW ALBUM. Donate any amount = name on the cover. Sure there’s still time. Same links above, note “VanceFunder”. Any amount over $1 works, but $1000 -plus- makes you an exec producer, name in heavy black font.

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BEAUTY BEFORE AGE

(by poet, actor, arts administrator, friend Charles Coe. Used with permission):

Finished my business at the drug store and was heading for the exit. Whenever someone else is walking toward a door at the same time--woman or man--I step back to let them go first. In this case it was a young woman.

Interesting to watch the difference in body language and affect between women our culture labels "attractive " and those deemed "unattractive." This young woman was clearly in the latter category, and the way she carried herself suggested a person who's spent a lot of her life trying to be invisible.

She thanked me when I waved her through the automatic door and as I trailed behind, without thinking I heard myself say "Beauty before age."

Wish I had a picture of her smile when she turned back around. Every time I was having a particularly craptastic day I could pull out my phone and take a look...