07/05/2026
About last night- honest post.
I had been up for almost 24 hours. IYKYK and for some who were there you saw.. mission successful. What many don’t know is we’re often quietly doing something volunteer based, that may cost us money or time but, for those that know the kind of community work we do.. you know it’s worth it ❤️.
I was alerted to a situation around 8pm, that was out of our control in our parking lot. We assumed it would be wrapped up by 10. Unfortunately it wasn’t and we personally respect our LE.
During the chaos of what was going on, people waiting, me having just gotten back into town, etc etc
A woman related to the incident going on charged up on me and said “why do you even need to celebrate?! You’re married to HIM! *gesturing at Gunaji”
My response was short.. “because we’re US citizens” I had too much I was trying to deal with including the help of our other friends like Kim who answered and said we could run a hose from Tommy’s.
Honestly though… we could have just said oh.. never mind.. we can’t do what we had planned for everyone. We could have driven the mile down the highway to home and gone to sleep.
However, we’re NOT that kind of people so, we quickly pivoted and did our show from our gravel lot.
Gunaji has heard a lot over the years such as being told to “go back to his country”, “sand n*gger” (which obviously isn’t even the correct slur for him), so on and so fourth. All of this has happened in this community and at the store.
Yet, we pay employees on payroll, taxes, mortgages, donate, give back to the community (the list could go on), live a mile away AND he’s been a US CITIZEN since he was able 9 years ago and could probably beat most in US history quizzes from the amount he studied 🤣.
All of this ramble to say… despite to hardships of last night and daily.. we’re still standing and will also stand, fight and continue to be here for OUR community.
Much love all 💜
