Dear Friends of The Sunny Center,
We send greetings to all our friends and supporters around the world! We are enjoying exceptionally fine weather and beautiful bright Irish skies here in Connemara.
We feel truly blessed to be part of a worldwide community of people committed to justice and human rights. We are always amazed and grateful for how generous of spirit, and pocket, this community is. And we thank you for your gifts, large and small, as every donation, whether of money or time or talent helps us to continue to help others.
OUR GUESTS AND VISITORS
We hosted a Guest from Florida who enjoyed walking the dogs, a visit to a traditional Galway Hooker – which is a wooden boat, built in the traditional way by hand -, and the vibrant cultural scene in Galway, which he joined in to experience a bit of Irish salsa dancing! We will welcome our next Guest in early June.
The apple and cherry trees planted by Uriah, one of our former Exoneree Guests, are in bloom and are a beautiful reminder of his lovely spirit.
We are happy to report that another of our previous Exoneree Guests has received a promotion in his job and, as a result, has as an apartment of his own for the first time since his release from prison over three years ago.
OUR VOLUNTEERS
We will be welcoming our next volunteer later this month from the US.
A student who had attended our talk at his University decided his contribution to The Sunny Center would be to build a dog house. As it happens, a big storm had blown away one of our doghouses. Now, the dogs are enjoying their new home!
Another supporter, who heard about us on a radio program, drove two hours to plant two native apple trees in our garden. We are looking forward to watching them grow and bear fruit.
OUR ACTIVISM
Sunny introduced the Ropes Literary Magazine at the 2017 Cúirt International Festival of Literature in Galway. During the program, Sunny did a reading from her book, “Stolen Time: One Woman’s Inspiring Story as an Innocent Condemned to Death.”
As part of that same festival, Sunny and Peter unveiled a Haiku plaque by Little John Nee, a famous local playwright, poet and musician who has been honored as a national treasure in Ireland by being inducted into the artists group of honor called Aosdána established by the Irish Arts Council in 1981 to honor those who have made exceptional contributions to the arts in Ireland.
Sunny and Peter gave the Keynote address at an event for the Northwest Innocence Project in Seattle and also hosted the first Exonerees For Exonerees Healing Retreat. We were interviewed on The New Day morning TV show in Seattle. You can watch the video here.
OUR FURRY FRIENDS
The cuckoo has arrived and has been entertaining us with her beautiful song. (Yes, there really is a cuckoo bird.)
We are hopefully awaiting the arrival of new kids! (goats, that is).
STAY CONNECTED
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Peace and Love,
Sunny and Peter