[SCA-BMDL] OT - scribal supplies collection for a victim of a fire

[KaziBrionSCA]

Greetings to all:

On a SCA-disaster list, there's news of an SCA lady on a limited budget (a
college student) whose uninsured apartment burned out.  Among the things she
cannot afford to replace are scribal supplies.  I have some extras handy
myself.  If you, local scribes, happen to have any spare brushes or pens or
ink or a ruler or a pad of paper that you would consider donating, I would
be willing to go through our art box and take the collected items to the
post office and mail them to her friend.  There is no big hurry on this...if
you'll let me know within a week whether or not you have anything, it will
allow me to make up my mind as to whether I am doing this or not.

Thank you for your patience - now to our regularly scheduled programming.
The note from SCAdisaster is pasted below.

With best regards,

Kazi

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Forwarded with permission

----- Forwarded message from patchworkpalace at voyager.net -----
    Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:16:26 -0500
    From: Susan <patchworkpalace at voyager.net>
Reply-To: MK_Textile_Artisan_Guild at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [MK_Textile_Artisan_Guild] Digest Number 413
      To: MK_Textile_Artisan_Guild at yahoogroups.com


> but is there anything we can do to help Erennach?
>
how nice of you to ask! Her garb is safe-she stores most of it at
home-fortunately her spinning wheel, too. She lost both her scrolls (AoA and
PF), all of her calligraphy and illumination supplies and her box of
embroidery stuff. Her electronics, furntiure,books, music and CD's are
pretty well trashed. Don't know yet how badly damaged her mundane clothes
are-getting the smell of smoke out of them may be next to impossible.  Am
going up to Mt. Pleasant tomarrow to get the cats, take her some cash ,etc.
so will know more then.
In the meantime, prayers and good thoughts wouldn't hurt!!
Thanks so much for asking!!
Lucia

----- End forwarded message -----


And the follow-up message


>
>Would you post this to the SCA-Disaster list?
>
I didn't know there was one...I knew several groups collected things for
Katrina but wasn't aware there was something "'on-going".

> but this was the sort of thing that Lord Colin wanted to include -- 
>it's *her* disaster.
>
Indeed!  With no insurance, she is having to deal with the financial aspect
herself.  Won't be an easy task as she is a full time college student....

Talked with her for quite awhile last night  and she is  very focused on
doing what needs to get done. She is currently staying with friends until
she can get another apartment but that will have to wait until she can find
a job.  By sheer determination-she WILL prevail!

> Or, send me the information, and I'll forward this -- can I forward
this
>
message?

Please do.   It may be awhile before she has an address but in the
meantime anything can be sent to :

Larissa Lefler
3215 S. 144th Ave
Hesperia, Mi 49421

I'll see to it she gets it! Thank you so much!
Lucia

Jerusha
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Susan Farmer
sfarmer at goldsword.com
University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/