I hope that 2016 has been treating you well so far! I’ve been busy since I last connected with you so I want to update you on the good things happening in my life. This is not a brag, just the amazing things that happen when I allow Spirit to connect and direct.
After taking a year off, I’m now volunteering again as Board President for the Sacramento Fine Arts Center located in Carmichael, CA. One of my first duties was to produce the annual Poetry/Art/Jazz Show in late January and it was a standing -room only great time!
We combined art with music by the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quartet and poetry performances by poets from the Sacramento Poetry Center on the same stage to an amazing and amazed audience, again this year!
Inspired by the striking dragon sculpture that was on stage with us, I read my poem, Oh No, Dragons!, about oil in Kern County where I’m from. This was a great opportunity to wear my favorite hat that reminds me of my childhood growing up “in the nation’s real country music capital.” Merle RIP. He was in my high school class.
Watch for my India in Color show that’s coming soon. More on this as it gets closer.
I’m happy to report that I’ve reached a huuge milestone in my greeting card sales—over 52,000 cards have been sold. Since I make all of the cards myself, this is a labor of love! I love making them because it’s 52,000 ways to make people happy.
First, they bring joy to the buyers of the cards, then the recipients. Sometimes people frame them so they can enjoy the images all year long. There’s no better way to touch more than 52,000 people and bring a dose of happiness into their lives.