Donate - Stories

this is for total enjoyment so i'm gonna ramble. this is a grab your tea and sit back and hang with me for a bit page. i've got a story to share....

there's two sides to the donation deal. one is that we have been donating bone sighs since the day we started and will continue to do so til the day we're finished. it's part of what we want to do. and yeah, we've been warned more than once by caring friends that we shouldn't give so much away. and no, we don't listen. because it is all totally part of the flow around here. and it matters. it's part of what we want to do.

the other side to this is that several people came thru offering to buy books for anyone who needed them and couldn't afford them. and that sparked the whole official donation page we put up! we got to thinking that if people wanted to donate, then we could spread bone sighs around even more! other people are getting on board!

now, i gotta stop there and clarify. it feels a little weird to talk about spreading bone sighs around. i don't want to sound cocky. i'm not.

i am totally blown away by the fact that bone sighs touch women and that places want them. it's amazing to me and i have never once lost that tingly feeling i get when i think of that. i say it with total gratitude. there are some women who these things touch, and we want to see these get out to them.

with that in mind, we got really excited about the donation possibility. turns out what's happened so far, is we're giving away more than ever, and totally beyond the donations we're receiving! ya gotta laugh at this. we got ourselves carried away, dived in, and are acting like the donations are there....when truth is, they aren't nearly covering what we're giving. not even close.

oh well.

our hope is that if we're doin' it with or without the donations from others, it'll all work out in the wash and sooner or later the donations given to us will equal the donations we're giving out.

ya know that darn trite ol' saying about it not being about the money? well, trite as it sounds, it's so darn true. the coolest things are happening.

i started the donation page in typical terri fashion....without thinking it thru. so i asked for donations before i even had a place to donate to! as soon as i realized this, i threw it out to the universe. ' i need a good place to give to, hand it to me.' i was that blunt because i believe in this. i know this is part of what i'm sposed to be doing.

the very next nite i bumped into an old friend i hadn't seen in six years! sure enough, thru her, i found my way to donating a ton of art to a place that helped women leave one life and start another. how cool is that?!

as i talked to the director on the phone, my entire being was filling up with inspiration and gratitude. she told me of the women who came thru their programs. of how the women had been thru so much trauma and loss and how they were survivors. she told me of what a privilege it was for her to work with them.and how much she loved her work.

i feel so honored to be able to donate to a place like this.......and as i started gathering things for them, another woman came thru.

she had placed an order. i had written her as i write every customer who comes thru, and she ended up telling me of the organization she had started for grieving parents. she had begun this because of her own loss of her three year old son.

we immediately sent up some stuff for her. for the parents trying to get thru a time i can't even imagine getting thru.

i had asked for places to use the donation money........and i found more than enough right away.

that wonderful logical guy in my life walked into my studio and saw a pile of things headin' out to donate and he laughed. 'how many times over are you going to use that donation money you got?'

i laughed too.

it'll all work out in the wash......

and we're lovin' tumblin' around in this incredibly cosmic cycle!

if you have any inclination to help us spread bone sighs around, go for it! you can go here to donate.

if you know of a place that needs stuff, you can also suggest a place to us!

we'd love to help!