Sharing good news after days of bad news supports community. Even if the good news is at the personal level and the bad news is on a national or even international level, sharing good news brings a moment of joy, pleasure, and contentment — a feeling that things will work out. Sharing good news helps us feel that we’ll be OK.
We covered jan4insight’s April mortgage yesterday. We’re at less than $100 each for YaNevaNo’s daughter and gtghawaii (counting PayPal donations) to wrap up their fundraisers. Aji got enough donations combined with a sale of Wings’ silverwork to cover most of next week’s labor and materials on the house. sockpuppet’s great niece had a beautiful and healthy baby girl a few days ago — and while sockpuppet’s clan are “deplorons” they all love/welcomed the “mixed race” baby. And of the half dozen kittehs among the Pootie Peeps who have been sick or undergoing “fixing” all of them are doing better and recovering well.
These are the kinds of things that say “we are community” — not just a random collection of strangers. We know when one of ours has a loss or needs something. We know who they lost or what they need. We sympathize with their loss. If we can, we help them. But whether we can help or not, we rejoice with them when needs are met.
For some of our community, they’re almost there. For some, there’s a ways to go. For a few, there’s a long ways to go. So sharing the hug, the good wishes, the cup of coffee if you happen to live close enough, encourages when things look dark. Sharing money if we have it to spare. Sharing The Word with our social media and other community lists. As we share we “channel the good” — bring good energy attention and intention to the need. Then we share the joy at each step forward and each goal met — which builds and strengthens our community, which supports and strengthens us.
We are community — the family, tribe, company, village, 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 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 ($26,025 to go) wingsoftaos@newmex.com
Arabian — help catching up from months of unemployment. PayPal is arabean at att dot net
BFSkinner — encouragement & medical/dental bills (immediate target for dental bills — $2,334 to go). Multiple/worsening health issues (including teeth) and Depression. BFSkinner profile page — go to a recent diary to give him some moral support. Gofundme: www.gofundme.com… PayPal: 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 April 26 (Boo!) — adding in PayPal contributions, about $80 to go — Stacy's gofundme
jtg — (car now priority) — Bum transmission scheduled for replacement next week. Est., parts and labor $4K — $2,400 to go. Widget www.gofundme.com/… • PayPal
jtg — (home) cancer survivor, late father’s caregiver (15 years). Substitute teacher since mid-Oct. No school so no subbing next week. April cushion helpful. www.gofundme.com/… • PAYPAL Kos Katalogue vendor (links below) augmenting substitute teaching with graphic art sales.
Murfster35 — health issues, lack of balance, stamina, and muscle strength — can’t file for SSDI without a Dx, can’t get a Dx without tests. Goal of $4,000 — $3,390 to go. widget I need to know what's wrong
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 — Vet bills — $750 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, $900 left on mortgage refinance.
YaNevaNo’s daughter and grandchildren lost their mother and their home to a fire — support for the van cleef family — help with funeral expenses and getting a place to stay, clothes, etc. ($52 to go)
AndyT’s friend Jill — DK makes disabled woman cry - with joy — lives in an RV in a trailer park with her son and dogs. The RV was shot up as “collateral damage” in a gang fight and needs to be repaired or replaced — goal total $7,500 — $5,642 to go. widget — RV repair or replace
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 ($6,800 to go)
Then see if meeting our needs and wishes 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 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.