If you're feeling karmically-loopy and generous: give to the Campersand Scholarship fund (Patreon)

Hello My topper-level patrons (that's about 200 of you)

TL;DR: I'm asking my richer patrons to help out the less rich ones. There's a GoFundMe scholarship to help people pay their way to the Campersand week-long patron-only retreat this summer. Here's the link, please donate! We're already at $1,000 of a $7,500 goal:

 https://www.gofundme.com/f/campersand-23-scholarships-for-patrons?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

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This is going out to you Art In The Mail and above folks (above $25). I figure you are the sorts who I should directly hit up for this, because you're the generally generous types who aren't broke and like to help people.

If you missed the announcement day before yesterday, I'm holding a patron-only retreat/gathering for the patron community, it's called CAMPERSAND, and it's taking place at a beautiful retreat center in Upstate New York on July 2nd to 7th. 

It's open to 100 people (we did 50 last time, and it was phenomenal)...and according to a poll I did a few weeks ago, a LOT of people would love to come and could afford the travel, but can't afford the the retreat itself (it isn't cheap).

That's why I'm coming to YOU.

Michael and I set up a GoFundMe "Scholarship"/fund so that wealthier patrons could give a hand to poorer ones.

So even if you have zero interest in attending the retreat...if you're feeling generous and wanna donate to the fund, it would mean a lot to the people who REALLY want to come but can't afford it. We've set aside 15 spaces of the 100 to be scholarship spaces, and if the fund doesn't make enough money. I'll still cover 10 out of my own pocket. If there's dough left over or we make more than we need, we'll put it towards making the retreat nicer, or towards next year's retreat.

So please, DONATE!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/campersand-23-scholarships-for-patrons?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

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More about Campersand:

People can apply for the scholarship itself HERE using this form, and we've already had a ton of applicants. All the nitty-gritty/timing info about the scholarship itself is the Campersand Announcement post, here.

In housekeeping...art-in-the-mail from Joni is in production, and I'm about to announce a webcast for y'all in the next few weeks, keep your eyes peeled. I'm still stumbling home from New Zealand and solo mothering and trying to get tickets sold and the Dresden Dolls fetal-album off the ground....mostly burning the candle at a number of ends.

AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL SEE YOU AT CAMPERSAND.

I'm really looking forward to this week. It'll be nourishing, to say the least.

And thank you, for being generous, and wonderful, and all that.

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