When: Monday nite 12/8 7:30pm ET

Where: https://youtube.com/live/BKxMfTOhDW4?feature=share

Who gets 10%: https://www.rosiesplace.org/ On 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.

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JUST CHECKING IN AS THE YEAR TRIES TO COME TO A CLOSE..

-I’m 67 year old Black man who just worked up a version of Midnight At The Oasis as if sung by Al Jarreau.
-I’m a double survivor - cancer and a violent childhood house.
-I just lost 50 lbs the short hard way.
-I spend very, very much time arranging bits of tissue, wood, and glue into award-winning stained glass-esque replicas of flying things. Then I fly them.
-I have a nose like a Hoover vacuum corner attachment
-I have a sharper tongue than I wish sometimes when it behooves me.
-I have a lame sense of direction, I don’t care where the sun is.
-I tour the world singing and playing songs that I wrote on guitar.
-I loved chicken wings.
-I fear heights but love flying in small airplanes, don’t ax
-I drive a minivan.
-All my socks are airplane themed
-I have a throw pillow with a poodle on it.
-I’m double jointed. My thumb can point straight out and then up at the ceiling
-Hair has only grown back on half my face, so I look like an undecided werewolf, thanks chemo and radiation.
-I jog 2-4 miles every other day.
-I'm built like a toilet paper tube with pipe cleaner arms and legs
-I loved chicken wi….sorry
-I was once a city-ranked tennis player at 14.
-I love and am loved

And yet when this Standard Poodle that we dog sit named Pepper went to the bowl in the kitchen to drink the first time (ok second too), I heard the lapping and light clinking of dog tags on the bowl's edge, I laughed and then totally lost it in tears because the sound was old - Roscoe, Louise, and Bessie old - and I had no control over my reaction to my heart's memory.

That absolutely has to be OK. I deem it so.

Amen.

Just checking in as the year closes.