Call for Aid!

Originally posted by a_phoenixdragon at Call for Aid!

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Originally posted by lady_simoriah at Call for Aid!

As many of you have likely seen on various newspapers and news stations around the world, millions of people from Syria have been displaced by the fighting going on in the country. Some have fled to the surrounding Middle Eastern nations but as those neighbors have been maxed out many more have continued onward to Europe and elsewhere in search of a safe place to live. Many have traveled with very little if anything in the way of day to day needs and the various agencies are struggling to provide anything more than just the bare essentials for so many people. alycat made a post yesterday on her journal highlighting the difficulties the refugees are facing and asking for help going above and beyond to take care of them. So now I'm amplifying that call and passing it along to all of you by running this charity community.

As of right now there will be at least two options, either buy it now or traditional auctions with the possibility of more being added later if there's an interest. Both the buy it now and auction posts will open tonight, October 8, and run until Thursday, October 22, 11:59 pm Central Daylight Time. If there are any questions please feel free to reach out to me via PM or email at ladysimoriah@gmail.com.

Please feel free to signal boost this relief effort wherever you can on LJ, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Let's spread the word people!

Today We Ate Going To ..

Hailsham and Tunbridge Wells.

The penultimate day in Sussex before my return tomorrow. We are off to Hailsham and Tunbridge Wells as GC is doing a round of mystery shops. I am tagging along window browsing. As funds are low after the blow out over the weekend (around £29), and the next load of payments coming in from companies not til Thursday, i will deter myself from buying anything.

Anyway , i have a purchase and refund job tomorrow in Brighton before i head back to Kent.

Poem of The Week

This week i have chosen a poem by a well known American author and poet.






Still I Rise

Maya Angelou


You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Rose Storms The Republicans

Rose McGowan is my favourite Charmed lass by miles, and as well as escaping the Hollywood rigmarole,she is a volunteer, an activist, and downright solid human. This is what she did recently.



( Her own personal biog )

Right on!

Round Robin Trip

A round robin trip today stopping at Hailsham, then Tunbridge Wells and then Uckfield on the way back.

Asked a kind lady in the Oxfam shop to put a book aside for me to collect within the next week, a history of witchcraft and demonology.

Found the second season of True Blood for only £2.50 in a charity shop in Uckfield, plus a few cheap fifty pence CD's in Tunbridge Wells. Plus a lovely pint of Stonehenge Old Smokey ( 5.0 % ABV)  at the Opera Hose pub. I declined singing any Gilbert and Sullivan songs though!

Took some pics as well.


( Pics here )

The Opera House

The Opera House, a Wetherspoons pub in Tunbridge Wells, has a wonderful interior as it was once an opera house (completed in 1902), and even has the old lighting gear. See pics below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_House,_Royal_Tunbridge_Wells



( Pics here )

Plastic Bags

I know that you have to fork out five pence if you want a plastic bag for your goods, esp. if you forgot to bring your bag for life substitute, so if you need one, do not complain , or in the words of Picard -