Please donate to cover medical costs of musician with DID and PTSD

Information from silent pirate's post from lj community advocates:

Beth is a young artist who recently released her first music album. She is a survivor of childhood abuse. Beth has fought against eating disorders and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. On top of that, she been diagnosed with DID(Dissociative Personality Disorder)/MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder).

In the next few days, Beth will be arriving in Pennsylvania, USA to start receiving medical treatment. She seriously needs funds to cover her medical costs. Unfortunately, very few donations have been received. Since silent_pirate's post on 15 June 2009, the donations can't even pay for one day of treatment.

silent_pirate has made prints of Set Me Free available for buying. All proceeds will be sent to Beth's medical fund.

Please consider either buying a print, or donating directly to the fund. For more information, please contact silent_pirate at thesilent@rocketmail.com or comment on her post at http://community.livejournal.com/advocates/79167.html.

Please pass on this message if you can't donate. Thanks so much if you do choose to help in some way.

Best article on women EVER

Well, if it's not THE best...it's ONE of the best.

It's by Aussie comedian Tim Minchin. It's wonderfully heartwarming and real, and you can read it here: http://www.angry-feet.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1525

My favourite bits:

I think I like women because I grew up surrounded by the bloody things: a mother who told it as she saw it, who laughed at funny stuff and fought annoying stuff and freaked out at scary stuff; smart, funny sisters who looked up to me and hounded me and laughed and laughed and laughed; cousins who played music and wore bikinis and looked beautiful in ball dresses; grandmothers who danced comically and taught me tapestry; aunts with critical eyes and sparkling eyes and folk bands; a godmother with envelopes of $20 bills and buckets of silliness.
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The third was the first one again, who proved – in the end – that for me there was to be no getting over the first love. At the end of next year, we will have been together half our lives – pretty rare for 33-year-olds these days.

Maybe more than anything else, I probably love women because they've always been nice to me. Which is nice of them.

Now I've got a new woman (reference to Minchin's baby daughter). She wakes me at night and I go into her room grumpy and tired but glad for the opportunity to see her. She's a mystery to me, but I'll figure her out.