It's a good tired

Thanks again you lovely, lovely people who donated your art to Empty Bowls. gwen_the_potter I include you too, we sold the bowls you donated last year and I stored. We won't know how much money was made until our hard working Treasurer tells us.

It was so gratifying to have so many of the guild members there, working the whole time. The world does not appreciate middle aged women enough. If something needs to be done efficiently and with little fanfare or ego there is an unhearlded source. (Exceptions to every rule exist of course.) As I may have mentioned 1/2 the proceeds are going to OxFam and the second 1/2 to a small town about 70 miles from here. Last night when I called them I was told about said small town's whose Food Bank shelves are empty and the last operating lumber mill shut down. The larger towns like Moscow/Pullman/Lewiston/Clarkston have enough people with middle-class incomes to support the local food banks, the little outlying towns don't have enough steady middle-class incomes to help those with less.

Moscow is an interesting small town. The same time as Empty Bowls, a very well-attended "Hemp Fest" was in a park two blocks from us, and a "Mom's Weekend". More events were happening also, but who needs more?
( pictures of Empty Bowls )