Good and Evil. What’s in a concept? How does it play out in the real world? If someone is crying, is in trouble, Good wants to help and make things better. Evil laughs and wants to hurt them more. Evil sees a victim — “easy prey”. In fact, Evil sees everything and everyone as prey — and anyone who is vulnerable as easy prey. Blood in the water, Evil feeding frenzy. That’s why Good people join together in community. To stop Evil from eating them, one by one.
Good by nature isn’t interested in governing. Good prefers everyone go about their own business, joining forces for the big stuff, assisting community members in need, and just doing the “good of the community” thing because it’s right. Which is why Evil all too often gets control of governments. Good wasn’t paying attention.
Evil isn’t interested in governing either. Evil wants to rule. It wants what it wants when it wants it — and is delighted to torture and destroy to get it. Doesn’t matter if whatever it wants is bad for itself, the point is getting what it wants when it wants it. Evil can’t govern and makes a really nasty toxic mess when it gets in control of governments. Which is why the Community of Good has to take time away from going about its business, rise up to defeat Evil, and clean up the mess — and protect the community while doing it.
It’s time again for the Community of Good to rise. Patch each other up, splint the broken bones, feed the hungry, house the homeless — we’ve got a job to do and it will take all of us. So now we help each other get into fighting form — then get to work.
We are community — family, tribe, company, village, culture, and ultimately the state survives beyond the life of any single member and supports/strengthens the life of each individual member by helping each other, by sharing. We survive, thrive only in and as community — all together.
So we persist in helping our community members in need of funding:
The folks needing help are in alphabetical order. Names link to their profile pages.
Aji — replacing the home repossessed after the ’08 crash rests on 3 posts: sales of Wings’ NDN Silverwork + Lowes gift cards (on AmazonWishList) for materials + fundraising. More of the 1st two = less of the 3rd. Ono’s diary — Help a House and Hearts have Wings — PayPal to donate for labor and local materials/equipment expenses ($20,000 to go): wingsoftaos at newmex dot com
arabian — catch up help — PayPal: arabean at att dot net
BFSkinner — encouragement & medical/dental bills (immediate target insulin — he’s hit the Part D donut hole and needs $1800 (3 lots of insulin) to get passed it — $1,525 to go). Multiple health/dental issues and Depression. Find a recent diary to give some moral support. Gofundme: www.gofundme.com… PayPal: houstonbfskinner at netscape dot net.
Dem — Depression and PTSD. Underemployed. Needs financial help (food, Rx), and moral support. PayPal robertallenproctor4 at gmail dot com.
Fineena — (landlord selling house, move date Saturday May 27th — FORCED TO MOVE ON A FIXED INCOME — $3,000 for moving (transferring utilities, mattress, storm door, and fence repair) — blessings on eeff for offering his truck/trailer for the move. Need Charlotte area volunteers for help with packing and moving (and loaning packing supplies). PayPal palskaren at aol dot com — Almost there. New Match — $750 ($650 to go) will cover moving and then renew the car tags.
jtg — (car priority) — Safety stuff (airbag sensor, defroster fan, tires) est. $1,800. — $1,300 to go. Widget www.gofundme.com/… • PayPal
jtg — (home) cancer survivor, late father’s caregiver (15 years). Substitute teacher. School holidays/vacation no subbing. May pay gap help. www.geofundme.com/… • PAYPAL Kos Katalogue vendor (graphic arts, links below) to augment substitute teaching.
MaureenMower — widow, unemployed, needs help with living expenses and car (for a job in her area) — $2,180 to go — need help for pets, car, housing — PayPal: MOELOE1126 at AOL dot COM
pale cold — partially disabled/chronic pain — estranged husband (separated, divorce in progress) defaulted on a loan endangering her home — can’t afford a lawyer, doesn’t qualify for Legal Aid, but has been filing everything she and her friends can think of to give her a chance to deal with his debt or sell the house privately. If the Courts can’t/wont’ help she, her 3 daughters (adult daughter provides childcare so she can work), and dog need help getting another home. ($8,800 to go) — thank you and some upper updates — gofundme save my home — PayPal paypal.me/palecold
slksfca — Vet bills — Phase completed but Dixie was in the hospital several times last week. PayPal: slksfca at gmail dot com & Dixie's medical expenses
michelewin friend Kay — 70s, widow, homeless living in a truck with her cats, stuff in storage. 2/24/17 Update: Kay wants to move from CA to CO where her son lives. Est. $7K for truck, gas etc., storage fees — gofundme Kay Allen move to CO ($6,190 to go)
scamperdo has a temporary shared space so won’t be homeless but is still looking for an efficiency or “mother-in-law” contained unit in Waltham, MA. If you know of such, please kosmail scamperdo.
Then see if meeting our needs and wishes [like gifts or gift certificates for Fathers Day] can do double duty in bringing revenue to the small businesses of our Kossack community — or share out the artisan/vendor site links to folks you know who are interested in that type of work (and help get/keep the artisans and vendors off the fundraiser list):
Physical expressions of love can lift the spirit — especially when from folks we 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 found in the Kos Katalogue.
KOSSACK ARTISANS/VENDORS — JUST SAY YES to KOS BUSINESSES
asterkitty — painting sale & postcard sale
edrie — jewelry — Edrie's Shop
elenacarlena — original cartoons to hang, wear, or drink from — les beastiables products, teepublic elenacarlena or kosmail to commission a cartoon.
Wings (Aji) — NDN Silver, Aji’s & Wings’ basic income. Hover on Galleries, then on Silverwork or Photography or Other Artists for click-links to see beautiful work or Contact for email to commission or purchase. (Donations to help build house, see above.)
Full Kos Katalogue. 2016-17 Kos Katalogue is OPEN YEAR-ROUND.
- 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:
BFSkinner — (for insulin — $1,525) jeremy's medical fund
jtg — (car repair — $1,300) jtg car repairs; (May “cushion”) keep jtg living indoors
justagurlinseattle — (mom needs transport to nursing home — $6,785) — please help with my mom's medical move
MaureenMower — (unemployed, needs car, help w/ living expenses — $2,180 to go) need help for pets, car, housing
pale cold — (save house if poss, new if not — ex’s loan default — $8,800 to go) gofundme save my home PayPal paypal.me/palecold
slksfca — (Vet bills — Dixie was in the hospital several times last week) PayPal: slksfca at gmail dot com & Dixie's medical expenses
michelewin’s friend Kay — Kay Allen move to CO ($6,190 to go)
And give other kinds of caring support to our community as the needs arise
Community Transcripts Project (CTP), 2thanks admin; critical for those who can’t listen to speeches and giving everyone fact-check ability, transcripts are time-consuming and costly; community fundraising allows CTP to make them available at little to no charge. PayPal: communitytranscriptsproject.dk at gmail dot com
Helping. That’s what community does. E pluribus unum — one out of many. WE, the people.
Only strong together.