While we take a breather after the ACA save, look through your contacts lists. See who is inclined to help folks in need or are interested in supporting small businesses and local artisans.
This is how we make it work. Just like looking at the political scene as a whole is totally overwhelming, depressing, and tends to make one just give up — looking at a list of folks or organizations, all worthy and admirable and in need of support, is totally overwhelming, depressing, and tends to make one just give up. So. Who’s a member of your kossack community? Kossack political groups, gardening/nature groups, gaming groups, health and healing groups, IAN, PWB Peeps, KTK... — who’re your cyber-neighbors? Give those neighbors a hand by sharing their stories, funding links, online shop links everywhere you can think of. Become the link between cyber-neighbors who need help and cyber-neighbors who have help to give. It’s Sharing Saturday.
We are community — the family, tribe, company, village, the culture, and ultimately the state that survives beyond the life of any single member. We survive, thrive only in and as community.
So we persist in helping our community members in need of funding:
Aji — building/replacing the home repossessed after the 2008 crash. Funding this house rests on three posts: Wings NDN Silverwork jewelry sales + Lowes gift cards for materials + fundraising. More of the 1st two means less of the last. Purchasing Lowes gift cards (plumbing, flooring, appliances...) www.amazon.com… and sharing wingssilverwork.com everywhere/often will greatly reduce fundraiser needs. kishik’s diary — Aji and Wings - Resilience - Endurance - Hope The widget’s down, so please use PayPal to donate for labor and local materials expenses (estimated $28,900 to go) wingsoftaos@newmex.com
Arabian — needs help to catch up from months of unemployment. PayPal is arabean at att dot net
BFSkinner — encouragement & medical/dental bills (immediate target for dental bills — $2,665). Multiple/worsening health issues (including teeth) and Depression. BFSkinner profile page — find a recent diary and give him some moral support. Gofundme link: www.gofundme.com… PayPal is houstonbfskinner at netscape dot net. fundraiser diary BFSkinner - System Fail needs some help
Dem — Depression and PTSD. Underemployed. Needs financial help (food, Rx), social services in San Antonio, TX area and moral support. PayPal robertallenproctor4 at gmail dot com.
gtghawaii — was awarded Disability (Yay!) but it doesn’t start paying until the end of next month (Boo!) so $875 to go — Stacy's gofundme
jtg — (car now priority) — still working but transmission getting worse. Replacement scheduled for Spring Break. Est., parts and labor $4K — $2,585 to go. Widget www.gofundme.com/… • PayPal
jtg — (home) cancer survivor, late father’s caregiver for 15 years. Substitute teacher since mid-Oct. Eking it out. March cushion helpful. www.gofundme.com/… • PAYPAL Kos Katalogue vendor (links below) augmenting substitute teaching with graphic art sales.
In memory of Patriotic Daily News Clearinghouse (Lin) PDNC — a little help with medical bills her sister put on her own credit cards. Widget has Lin’s story by Laura — Linda McClure
slksfca — Target $5000 — $840 to go. PayPal slksfca at gmail dot com & Dixie's medical expenses
snoopydawg — 5-year denied-claim work injury, belated surgery failed: permanent damage, can’t work, chronic and acute pain. SSDI augmented with photo sales (Kos Katalogue), mortgage behind (trying to refinance). Needs help to catch up. [Companion dogs needed help. Of course she asked for them first.] Widget Charlie & Abby's vet bills (and the mortgage) Vet bills met, $970 left on mortgage refinance.
michelewin’s friend Kay — 70s, widow, homeless living in a truck with her cats, stuff in storage. phone (w/permission) 916.559.0908 2/24/17 Update: per michelewin: Kay wants to move from Sacramento to CO where her son lives. Estimate $7K for truck, gas etc., and storage fees — gofundme Kay Allen move to CO ($6,880 to go)
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EMERGENCY NEED FOR KOSSACK SILVERHUNTRESS: SOMEBODY GOT HER DEBIT CARD NUMBER AND BOUGHT SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS AGAINST HER BANK ACCOUNT. RENT AND CAR INSURANCE CHECKS HAVE BEEN RETURNED — THE BANK HAS HIT HER WITH CHARGES MORE THAN EQUAL THE AMOUNTS OF THE RETURNED CHECKS. IMMEDIATE NEED IS $650 FOR RENT BY NEXT WEEK OR HER TRUMP-SUPPORTING LANDLORD IS GOING TO EVICT HER. TO KEEP DRIVING SHE ALSO NEEDS $150 FOR CAR INSURANCE. HELP IF YOU CAN. PAYPAL ADDRESS IS:
kimdmartin at gmail dot com
Then see if meeting our needs and caprices can do double duty in bringing revenue to the small businesses of our Kossack community — or send out the artisan/vendor site links to folks you know who are interested in that type of work (which helps get/keep the artisans and vendors off the fundraiser list):
Physical expressions of love can lift the spirit — especially from folks you know like our Kossack artisans and vendors. Our dollar vote is heard even when our ballot vote isn’t so double-duty cast that dollar vote for Kossacks and other small business communities and lift spirits, too.
From Pootie Pads to wearable and frameable designs to jewelry to web design to decluttering services — gifts from the heart are easy to find in the Kos Katalogue.
KOSSACK ARTISANS/VENDORS — JUST SAY YES to KOS BUSINESSES
asterkitty — to assist with moving costs, special painting sale is here. Big discounts: alexalev.com…
edrie — jewelry — Edrie's Shop
elenacarlena —original cartoons to hang, wear, or drink from — www.zazzle.com… www.teepublic.com… or kosmail to commission a cartoon.
Sara R & Winglion — Pootie (cat) & Woozle (dog) snuggle/sleeping Pads —
pootiepad.com…
Wings — NDN Silver wingssilverwork.com , Aji’s & Wings’ sole income source. Hover on Galleries, then on Silverwork or Photography or Other Artists for click-links to see breathtaking work. Use Contact for email to commission or purchase. (Donations to help build house, see above.)
Full Kos Katalogue. 2016 Kos Katalogue is OPEN FOR YEAR-ROUND BIZNESS.
Departments of the 2016-17 Kos Katalog — by mettle fatigue
- Arts & Craftwork
- Books, Cookbooks, Magazines, Bookshops & Publishing
- Childrens', Craft Supplies, & Yarn: Knit, Crochet, Weaving
- Clothing & Jewelry
- Painting, Drawing, Digital Art, Photography, Sculpture
- Food-Drink-Garden & House-Home & Pet
- Service & Stationary Depts w/ Nasty Woman Merchandise Poll
- Software, Web Design, Music (CDs, DVDs) and Misc. Depts
Then pass The Fundraiser Word to the wider world to bring more help than we alone can give:
And give other kinds of caring support to our community as the needs arise
Community Quilt for The Marti, MarTigre, Princess Marti who accepted the PWB Peeps torch when Tricia Wise, the Pootie Queen held it out — The Marti's Quilt - 2nd diary
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Community Quilt for BiPM — update in the diary — they think they got the cancer but he’s still facing chemo — C&J - be a part of the community quilt for BiPM
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Community Transcripts Project (CTP) 2thanks admin (link to profile page); transcripts are critical for those who can’t listen to speeches (time, internet access, physical ability) and vital for everyone in understanding speeches — and how to respond to them — as they give the ability to check sections against each other, other speeches, declarations, laws, or even the constitution itself; transcripts are time-consuming and therefore costly to do; raising funds from the community allows CTP to do them and make them available to the community at little or no further charge. PayPal address: communitytranscriptsproject.dk@gmail.com (current goal $500)
Helping. That’s what community does. E pluribus unum — one out of many. WE, the people.
Only strong together.