Pageant outcome

Enquiring minds can Google "Beaver Queen Pageant 2019" to learn how things panned out last Saturday. Adélie Pygoscelis-Beaver did not win the crown, but did win Best Talent for her reinterpretion of the pottery scene from Ghost as a polyamorous interspecies clay slip-smearing water-sprinkler-sprinkling fest. The scene starred Adélie Pygoscelis-Beaver as Demi Moore, Faser Beaver as Patrick Swayze, a waddle of Entouragettes who also wanted "to be in the room where it happened," and a bunch of children over whose heads all the innuendo flew and who were happy just to run through a sprinkler in a park on a hot day.

The State Presence question was "if you are in the room where it happens, what room are you in, and what's happening?" Adélie gave an impassioned call to action:

Penguins inhabit two worlds at once:
we whoosh through water, we waddle on land.
So you'll find me in two rooms at once,
both getting hotter, both threatened by Man.

Find me first in the Living Room,
the room where, to live, we must take a stand.
Find me next in the world's biggest room:
the Room for Improvement; wherefore I demand:

Penguins raise flippers! Beavers raise paws!
Humans raise hands to pass some new laws!
The first legislation we sign and seal
is a path toward renewal: a Green New Deal!
The next legislation: let hist'ry record
we sign ourselves back in the Paris Accord!

There's no room for doubt; there's no wriggle room.
Species unite! Save our planet from doom!
You want a revelation? I want a revolution!
To arms! RISE UP 'gainst climate change and pollution!

Several hundred Potters' Penguin Project penguins found forever homes, Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association raised ~$24,400, and I've reclaimed shelf space at home to fill up with my next community-building art project. All is good.