October

[celaenos_aerie]

Good things about October:

* the academic semester reaches its halfway point
* the leaves start to turn colors
* Diana's Grove does its Rites weekend, which is invariably awesome
* hot food and hot showers become deeply appealing again
* the Tomato Nation jumps on the yearly Donors Choose challenge and makes amazing things happen

Comments

[langs_place]

I don't read TN regularly anymore (because I don't read much for leisure at all), so thanks for pointing this out. It's an awesome idea for getting grassroots material support for education, and I hope some big companies cough up cases of paper and such.

[kayoteelsewhere]

Have you ever heard of modestneeds.org ? It's a somewhat similar idea--you put your donor points to the applications you choose (or you can let them choose). The idea there isn't education it's to stop folks on the border from slipping into poverty due to one expense--the car repair that is just too much but will cause loss of job, the back rent from being sick that will lead to eviction despite ability to now pay, etc.