Monday

I had a pretty good day and I know someone who had a pretty lousy day so. 

I met the potential third church to host the show. The minister is definitely into it. If they host it will be in September because July and August are dead. I give a presentation to the church council Monday night. 

Three churches!

Three venues!!

One thing that surprised him/impressed him is I’m just a regular person with a regular job, doing this in my free time, with no organization, just because it seemed like a cool idea. 

A perfectly reasonable question one person asked is if I’d gotten any negative backlash.  I feel like I might be jinxing it. I haven’t, but their pride flag was vandalized so they are feeling unsafe. They seemed satisfied with my answer of how I’d addressed the issue of safety but really, there is nothing you can do against the possibility that some nut might come in with acid, which was her nightmare scenario. The minister pointed out that the risk was minimal. Where is the wood to knock on? 

Italy is going to send a second air defense system to Ukraine. It can intercept 10 ballistic missiles at once. 

Ukraine and Russia had their first prisoner exchange in four months. 75 people each side. 

The US extended a suspension of tariffs on Ukrainian steel for another year.