If you celebrate, Many blessings for you and yours for Thanksgiving!

^{The following comes from $Moonbeam13's journal .}

That's right - You wake up one morning and you can't speak, you can't move your arms, all that's working is your eyes.. what do you do?

For most of us,I believe this would be a nightmare. Just the inability to log on to deviantART causes me to go into tiny withdrawal modes, so the concept of no communication at all.. is mind numbing.

Communication is key to connection. Without it we feel isolation and excluded from the rest of humanity. The ability to share your feelings and thoughts is priceless and to live without that.. unimaginable.

Except if you are ~GloryAngel - because if you were Sara, this would be your life.

A year ago, Sara was in a terrible car accident and she seemed to come out of it unscathed but while in the hospital being treated, she suffered a stroke.

This stroke made it impossible for Sara to move anything but her eyes and while she now has a machine to help her "speak" using the movement of her eyes it isn't enough to break the isolation.

Sara was an artist, she was one of ours. She was an active member of this community I've been praising and we have the ability to give her a piece of her life back. If we can come together and raise $2500, we can help her family purchase equipment that will allow her to access the web, and even allow her to make art again.

Every year you all come together for $Moonbeam13's breast cancer walk and we've watched you reach out to others in need before and for that I applaud you. If you can do it one more time, we can literally bring art back to an artist. What greater gift is there?

Donations can be sent to PayPal donate@sarascourage.org or mailed to:

Sara Baker Trust Fund

#10350222753

Exchange Bank

8220 Old Redwood Highway

Cotati, CA 94931

If you can't donate for whatever reason, please help spread the word.

Thank you

You can read the full article about what has happened here.

Victory Speech

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference.

It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled--Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.

Whole Text of Speech

Obama Collection

What follows is my attempt to fulfill my 100D promise to feature 100 deviants
during 2008. I am not sure what happened to the project.
But life has a way to change plans we all have.

Here are features 71-85. They are "unofficial" according to *The100DProject.
I chose them using the Random Deviant button and chose those that had under
20,000 pageviews and no DD's within 3 months (that I could see).

The seventy previous featured deviants can be found here:
[ Numbers 55-70 (unofficial) |

Numbers 1-54 (official) ]

Without further ado... Here are MY next set of features

If you live in the United States, please get out and vote!

If anyone is interested in how I am going to vote... Check out my blog. I live in California, so the propositions listed are California Propositions.
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