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Posted by Celeste Moondancer - Moderator
on 7/5/2009, 9:41 pm, in reply to "Re: SAVE AWC"
Message modified by board administrator 8/5/2009, 1:02 am
Love 
, you can use, or do anything you want.
You're efforts to help in this time of crisis is just so incredible, it brings tears to my eyes. (Happy tears)
. It's like you're some kind of angel. The fact that 37 people have read your post, and including you, a whopping 3 people have actually looked at the donation page, and NO ONE has made a donation makes me cry too. Those tears are not ones of happiness
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And to clarify something, if AWC goes, so does The Cottage. The Cottage was created for Witches who visit my web site to learn, teach and make friends. A place that no matter what is going on in your life, you know you would always have a home on the Internet, and a family of people that care about you.
It broke my heart to close my last forum after almost a decade of sheer bliss. And it seems like history is repeating itself here. Everyone has said lovely things about me and AWC. How "amazing" my site is, and how much I have helped them, but when I'm the one who needs help, people do nothing but wait for(or post) another topic, so this one goes away. I'm NOT trying to lay a guilt trip on anyone, I'm just telling you the facts. This has already happened before.
Is there something else I can do that would make it easier for people to even go look at the donations page, and understand the situation? Anything that would make it easier for people to part with a few bucks? Any ideas are more than welcome.
If I made a page that listed the people who made donations, that would include your name, email address (if you wanted to network with people in you're area), and a link to your web site (if you have one) for a year, would that help?
It may create more work for me, but this is a very serious crisis....and the VERY last time I'm going to put keeping up my site and forum up, over the health of my baby, by using the money I need to take him to the vet to pay to keep them up for a while longer.
This topic might go further down the page, but the situation is not going to go away. I simply don't have enough money to pay for the various expenses involved in keeping AWC up. And while the price of things go up, my income is the same as it was 12 years ago, and it's not going up. In fact, it's going to go down by almost a hundred dollars!
A few people have said that I don't seem like myself, even though my posts do. As one person said "your energy is not the same as it normally is". The truth of the matter is that there are some horrible things going on in my life that have made it very hard for me to try and stay upbeat.
Along with permanently losing what, to me, is an ENORMOUS amount of money, my best friend AND the only Doctor I've ever had (both of whom I've known for over 25 years) have cancer. Having to close The Cottage AND my web site after working on it for 12 years, and working on updating the look and contents for the last year (and am still not done),as well as the very real possibility of loosing one, or both of the people I am closest to, will just put me over the edge.
If the Cottage and AWC don't mean anything to you, that's totally cool (and I REALLY mean that), but I would really appreciate it if on this night of the full moon, some of you could say a prayer, or send some healing energy to my 2 brave friends who are suffering, and trying to beat, what may be a terminal illness to them.
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