06/12/2024
I am very grateful to be on CBC radio and to reach their arts loving audience. I am disappointed that every time I’m in there they want to talk about something that happened thirteen years ago. Yes I raised eleven thousand from regular folks to get 123 Princess up and running. And yes it was shut down by the city right away. If you want to see where the money went, check out the great kitchen and beautiful bathrooms in Clementine. I built that. And I lost a hundred thousand of my own money. Everything went wrong. I have a mental illness and I was becoming increasingly sick as the project went on. So yes the whole thing went pear-shaped. I tried to * myself, and was even homeless very briefly. And I felt terrible about my failure for a long time. But you can’t let your catastrophes define you. There are no time machines. And no straight line to feeling well and doing well. All you can do is do the work. I slipped into a funk for several hours after this interview today. But I know that what we’re building here is inevitable. The cause is righteous, and the timing is right here right now. And if anyone wants to naysay, all I can say is, watch me.
