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GoFundMe funeral fund for one of our own
So many of us struggle with depression and suicidal thoughts.
One of ours is lost to that struggle.
She would have turned 16 in a few weeks.
You may have met lee_hawk through blogs posted by her stepmother, shadowwolf13. She might have crossed your LJ path via therealljidolI only had the pleasure of meeting the young woman once, at Shadow's wedding several years ago to Lee's ( Read more... ) -
daily chance to do good: HUGHCON!!
If you’ve attended a science fiction convention in the past 20+ years on the east coast, your path is very likely to have crossed with this man’s..
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shifting sands
Books were a major element in the story of my childhood/young adulthood. And many of those books crossed my path because of my mother.
One of these, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, became profoundly significant to me. Beyond the look into a world that is so incredibly foreign, it was a book of possible magic. It was also a ( Read more... ) -
Sean "Bazil" Duran: November 25, 1966 - April 30, 2016
I have so much I want to write and I have no idea how to write it.
So let’s start with a present.
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cyber monday! $winterholiday shopping? check out these vendors..
I’m a little late this year, but heeeeey! Need some nifty $WINTERHOLIDAY presents? Consider the following! (And please note, as you read over this list, that a great deal of these fabulous people are doing good things with their profits…so purchases here really are a gift that does ongoing goodness.)
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let's go fly a kite: Chris Silvia
With tuppence for paper and strings
You can have your own set of wings
With your feet on the ground
You’re a bird in a flight…
I can’t remember when Chris Silvia told us about his adventures in competitive kite flying in Japan. I’d known he spent time in that country - when I first ‘met’ him in 1998(?) via the online community Halloween-L, his ( Read more... ) -
daily chance to do good: help out one of the kindest people i know
https://www.youcaring.com/anthony-paino-your-favorite-former-non-profit-naturalist-458373
Memory:
I am working in the Live Animal Unit, having recently become a weekend manager. Behind me, I hear the sounds of someone walking into the room, talking as he enters.
I turn to see who he’s talking to, and am surprised to find that he’s more or less ( Read more... ) -
in which i fail horribly at walking
I've spent the past several weeks volunteering as a crew member for a local production of "Evita," as well as attending meetings for a future production. Because one of my meetings was the afternoon before a show, I had decided to go into town early, meander towards my meeting, and then explore a bit of the city before I had to be back at the ( Read more... )
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