Greetings!

by way of KristinNoel / Ejoy - I learned a way to celebrate big this year (cause when I turned 60 last year... we were isolating-ish). Happy 60 Wonderful to Moi!

For my birthday I'd love it if you'd consider donating to Eecole's 50th birthday present - a new community sauna. When I turned 50 Eecole organized a surprise gift for me - a new laptop. That MacBook Pro lasted 10 years! So, it's payback time! Join me!

Here are some things I want to offer you! If you've never tried out Song a Day you're missing out. You'll get a new song every day curated by yours truly. Click here and you'll automatically be added to that list. Yes, you'll be taken to a random webpage (well, not that random, actually - there are some music songsheets here that you might enjoy if you like to sing).

Then, there are my 11 Life Tips. See what you think. There's info on how to get a better night's sleep; how to make sure you catch the sunset more often; and lots of other goodies. Click here and you will get some other tips, and you'll automatically be added to my 11 Life Tips list.

Me and Steve out biking!
Albert's Life Tips
Well, you knew there was going to be an activism ask, and here it comes. This month - trees. Please contact our Urban Forester, Jen Cairo @ 503-823-8733, and ask her why the City's contract with Friends of Trees has been canceled. My sense is she had a lot to do with this decision and she's the one to make things right. I believe a story about this is about to drop, but for now, here's some background.

Friends of Trees is an incredible local organization that has been planting thousands of street and yard and park trees in the Portland Metro area for years. Sadly, the City has canceled their contract - at exactly the wrong time if you ask me. (see climate crisis).

If you want to learn more about tree planting in Portland this document from 2018 was supposed to be guiding things.
Well, I think that's going to do it for me for this month. I hope you're doing well. It looks like we're about to have a nice Summer and then head into another Omicron surge in the Fall - take care of yourself - overdo it on the masking + take your vitamin D and do the other many things to take care of your health :) Pace yourself! Hugs and kisses! Albert

Here's my summer line-up updated below. Please consider joining me for something on this list - they are a lot more fun together!
5.11 - Happy 61st birthday to me - Mt. Tabor Dance Collective - up above the highest reservoir - 4 pm on (dance starts @ 6ish).
Memorial Day Weekend: SOAK! Burning Man Regional (hard to get tickets, but not impossible)
6.16-19 - Summer Solstice at Breitenbush (will be my 27th year?)
6.21-26 - WDSX - The World Domination Summit (last one). There are still tickets to this floating around. I've been holding onto the one I bought a couple of years ago and am very much looking forward to being with this fun collection of people in Portland this year! This is the last one of these and it really is transformative.
6.30-7.3 - Songwriter Soiree Retreat. This is round 2 for this retreat and like everything else, it's been put off for a couple of years. I don't really consider myself a songwriter, but I do like playing music, and Sara Tone is going to be there offering drum classes, and Lewis Childs and Jonathan Brinkley, and Robin Jackson - so, you know - it's going to be lovely. Can't wait and there are probably a couple of slots still open.
7.6-7.11 - Oregon Country Fair. A fun fact about this event is that I've recently taken on a new role of being one of the admins for the 28K-large FB group for this event. That's introducing me to more people who are Fair Family than ever before. I'm grateful for this. If you've never been this is one of the most fun things that Oregon has to offer.
7.21-24 - String Summit (Strummit). The last one at Horning's Hideout and likely sold out (but there is a way if there is a will :)
8.12-15 - Singing Alive - likely tickets available for this still - very sweet singing event East of Salem.

This is what I know so far. There are some maybes - there's a chance I might cancel something. There's Burning Man. There's a chance you might invite me to go camping with you - purty please! I bring zee guitar and zee 1,000 songs! We sing into the night together!