This month, we donated our old car, a '99 Mercury Sable, to Cars for Courage, in support of Courage Center. Courage Center is "a Minnesota-based non-profit rehabilitation and resource center that empowers people with disabilities to realize their full potential in every aspect of life."
On a whim I decided to chip in a few bucks toward The Feminist Breeder's legal fund fighting against a cyber-bully/thief/serial copyright infringer. The person she's fighting against is someone who steals content from mothers' blogs and disparages them on her site, sending trolls back to the mother's site. She preys on women who have lost babies, going as far as to post one woman's home address and contact information during her later homebirth, for her followers to call the cops on this mother and generally make her birth a living hell. This person (I am not going to use her name) crosses a line on a regular basis into absolutely unconscionable harassment, but she has more or less unlimited legal resources so fighting her can be near impossible. Taking her down for copyright infringement could at least make things expensive for her.
I also worked on this blanket to donate to Project Linus:
Yeah, it's not quite finished yet. A yarn shortage, illness, bad weather which meant I didn't get out to the store to buy more yarn, etc. I've got lots of excuses, but I'm hoping to have it fully completed by the end of this weekend. I still need to make two more gray squares and one more brown square, but the rest are finished and ready to be assembled. Then I'll put a border on and call it finished. I'll post a nice picture of the completed blanket when I can.
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