Musician Alec James Adams and his partner need help:
We thought we could negotiate for more time. We were wrong. On July 9th, 2010, [our home] Fae Hollow goes up for auction by the foreclosing loan agent. We need $30,000 by July 1st to stop this from happening. This is beyond our means to borrow. What we need is not a rescue but an investment ( Read more... )

Taken from Amanda Armstrong's guest blog post at the Wild Hunt blog.

The most relevant links and info from the post, for those of you in a hurry:

The death toll is currently at 22 from this storm system. One of those lives was a member of the pagan community, Joshua Landtroop. He leaves behind two children and many friends. Joshua left work on foot ( Read more... )

air_n_darkness  has made a great consolidated list of the needs of our TN folks--three families that we know of, who are recovering from the floods in Millington and Frayser.  She's also made herself a contact hub for those families, which puts her at the level of Goddess all over again in my book.  Her post is here.

I'm just gonna keep boosting the signal, ( Read more... )

We pull each other out.

moonstone_fae , one of my best and brightest Tennessee fans, lost everything in the floods this weekend.  
She did not lose her life or her family--all of them are ok, thank the gods.  Her house was right next to a levee that just let go.  They are staying with friends for now.

When weather hits us hard down in the Bible Belt, it usually ( Read more... )

Also nifty things, via wirewalking .

Having gotten nowhere with her long and fretful job search, starherd  is doing something very brave.
In fact, she's doing something brave that's very like what I did, almost exactly seven years ago.
She's taking the leap.
For a start-up boost, she's auctioning off some seriously nifty things, of interest to genre fans.
Check out wirewalking 's ( Read more... )

One week from tonight, since I won't be in St. Louis for the community ritual on behalf of the McCall family, I'll collect donations to send their way at my San Diego house concert.  That performance will be dedicated to young Tegan, now dancing in the Summerlands.

Sunday February 21, 2010 - 6pm
House Concert
Madhouse at Camelot
San Diego, CA
RSVP ( Read more... )

Hi, I’m Cristina Deptula, editor-in-chief of Synchronized Chaos Magazine (http://www.synchchaos.com) and very glad Sooj has now recovered and is back to playing music! Honored to have taken part in this effort by auctioning off advertising space in our publication ( Read more... )

Quoting lyon_martin , one of our Ravens contributors:

Recently the McCall family lost everything in a house fire.

Their 17 year old son woke up in the first floor living room to find a couch ablaze from a fire in the basement below. He ran upstairs, woke his parents, and attempted to gather the rest of the family; eventually with his father's help lifting them ( Read more... )

Signal boosted from matociquala's post, quoting asatomuraki's post:
hominysnark needs a hysterectomy to keep an unpleasant medical condition from becoming a life-threatening one (it's already most of the way there) and she can't, because she doesn't have health insurance ( Read more... )

So many extraordinary people are creating beautiful things in an effort to do something to help Haiti recover.
omnisti  and I are concocting something.  Other movers and shakers (and founders) of this community are hard at work on wonderful surprises, or are already making noise and raising funds, getting funds where they need to go in order to do the most ( Read more... )