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Love love love my pangolin. Just need to frame it. Denise Monaghan

We sadly can’t go to the concert because it falls on the same night as my gallery opening at Royal Nebeker, October 15th. Great seats. DM me if you are interested.

It has been a hectic three days installing but we did it. The work looks wonderful. So lovely to see all work together in such a beautiful space. Royal Nebeker Gallery of Art. So grateful for all the help putting it together. Looking forward to the reception on October 15th and the weekend of events to follow Astoria Visual Arts Marne Lucas Studio Emma Lewis Acker Dardinelle Troen Colesie Tharp Oregon Humanities Jo Brickman Katherine Annala Kyle

Love how my town represents.

Throughout the exhibit our altar has offered an invitation to visitors to bring their grief forward and allow a stone to hold it and be symbolically cleansed and release into the water. Each week I find the bowl is full of stones. I ritually renew the water and wash the stones and ready the altar for another week. Interestingly I have noticed that I can actually feel the weight of the grief coming off the stones as I clean them. Even more interesting is that over the last six weeks the weight of grief that I have been feeling wash off each of the stones has also been increasing. Such a good remember to make space for recognizing and finding ways to process our grief. Today is the last day we will have the altar up. Tomorrow I will return the stones to the ocean to be throughly cleansed of the collect grief. Thank you Mother Earth, ocean and lovely stones for holding it all for us.

He’s quoted as being more afraid of the staff than the inmates. No criminal record, valid green card. Curious to hear how anyone who still supports this inhumanity can spin this one…