Frigging gorgeous

Well done! Congratulations on completing all your hard work!

And that’s another benefit: our dog can join us on this protest should we need him. Why aren’t people bringing their (well behaved and trained) dogs? Crowds? Maybe we need a pooch patrol presence? Lots of Californians have dog costumes for every occasion. 🤷🏻‍♀️ We’ll be present, visible, and available.

Every traffic accident, ambulance visit, police car stop, fire truck visit, flat tire in the road, we all are outside helping or observing. Every single time. We have great neighbors. There are language gaps in our communication that apps help us bridge. We wave when we see each other walking the 🐕

Auto traffic flows through our street, and ALL our signs will be highly visible. I may need to put up a slow down sign too: when we painted our house, it caused accidents because the difference was such a distraction. Mostly, I believe this will be impactful because we have vecinos who SHOW UP. 4/🧵

We live on an arterial feeder street. The protests on the march pass peacefully on our sidewalk. We are near a major street where the protests end up, and we are close enough to the downtown area where protests have ended up. We are in contact with people who can spread news rapidly and widely… 3/🧵

Internet, our phones, and most of all, our happy, joyful palm colored faces in our beautiful brown neighborhood, talking to everyone who passes by, sharing smiles and support, showing our kids another way to be present and available should something go wrong. This works for us because… 2/🧵

Fine. Here’s me drawing from Inktober a year or two ago.

Gah!! My heart!!

I had a jumping spider visitor in my studio this weekend, so so little! I got it scooped up on to my hand to help it get back outside. When it got back down on the ground it just turned around and looked at me like in that pic. 🥰