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Beth Raps's avatar

Something is happening, some things are really happening and just like that job description, it doesn't look as advertised, it looks like how it shows up and our job is to pick up the pieces and make a picture for ourselves. SLART, I am SO glad to hear from you and hear this!

SLART's avatar

Thank you for your lovely message earlier, it means a lot in so many ways, I'm hurting a bit, but it's managable. You inspired me to finish this post, I hadn't realised it's been three weeks since my last post. I'd like to return to weekly updates. How have you been?

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PS: Your hurting is all on your sleeve, which is where it's meant to be to stay healthy. We can feel it in your latest writing, which is so much better than keeping it to yourself. You've deeply benefited all of us with this latest post: What an eye-opener!

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Just so good. Pushing the envelope on myself with this campaign to raise $5,250 for a small solar array for friends living in a refugee camp in Kenya who are having a hard time without security lights and safe drinking water--the solar will fix that: https://www.gofundme.com/f/light-safety-and-hope-solar-charger-for-queer-refugees

It should feel easy--I teach this stuff, fundraising!--but this one is personal, too personal--I need to release it to the Universe, and have begun doing so today. I've been doing a lot more fundraising training in-person, just got off this webinar I gave today: https://grantstation.com/product/free/fear-connection-learning-how-ask-gift on a serious high note, lots of great Q&A at the end and my hosting organization told me I did a great job, my first time teaching fundraising asks online. This has also increased my newsletter subscriptions and enriched my hermit life up here on the mountain with substantive interaction. I'm still keeping all the balls in the air ilke I wrote in this post you commented on so perceptively: https://raisingclarity.com/2024/02/how-i-get-so-divinely-much-done/ but I have to say, although I do still like clean floors (and I still cannot lie), I haven't felt like washing them in a week or so!

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Just so nice to hear, you are amazing and I cannot lie! I have just donated £20 and will share the campaign, you'll get there! (Anyone reading this, here's the link https://www.gofundme.com/f/light-safety-and-hope-solar-charger-for-queer-refugees) I'd love to see that talk but looks like it's part of the membership there? Well done!

Oh it's a classic, I am going to re-read this one before bed...

Beth Raps's avatar

Love you. THANK YOU for your gift and sharing the campaign! We are getting there! It's so good to be back in fertile contact. For Spring!

Rebecca Holden's avatar

Everything in your post - your post itself - is threaded with success and achievement, and you've voiced so many important things in impressive terms. What a great post! I find the things that are hardest to, hmmm, how shall I put this? ADMIT to, are the ones which are the most important to me. I'm not 'a writer', for instance. But goodness me, I am - I just can't acknowledge it to myself because it's TOO BIG.