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<div><strong>WHO:</strong> <a href="https://www.laurenarrow.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lauren Arrow</a>!
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<div><strong>WHAT:</strong> A giant (15lb) ovarian mass named Lenore, causing Lauren a lot of pain. We will find out in surgery if it is cancerous.
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<div><strong>WHEN: </strong>Surgery is June 25th, until then she is mostly on bedrest and on a lot of pain meds. After surgery will be an 8 week recovery time.
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<div><strong>WHERE: </strong>Currently in Sebastopol, will recover in Larkspur and Sebastopol. Lenore will be kept by Kaiser in San Francisco, AKA: the pasture where tumors go to live out their last days.
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<div><strong>WHO:</strong> Lauren Arrow! If you are lucky enough to know Lauren, then you know that she is full of life, love, and song. Unfortunately, her voice is a little quieter these days as she is facing a major life altering health challenge.
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<div>Lauren has been self employed for 15 years and dedicates her life to helping folks move past shame, and embrace their creativity, their voice, and their authenticity. She uses her glorious voice to lead us all in prayer, in joy, and in community. She is the cantorial soloist at Chochmat Halev, and has had to cancel a handful of upcoming festival gigs so that she can heal. Let's show up as a community to reflect back the love that Lauren shares with us.
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<div><strong>WHAT(?!):</strong> For the past year, Lauren has felt a little off. For the past few months she has been getting full faster and feeling uncomfortable. Singing has felt painful at times. At the beginning of May, after experiencing more abdominal pain and going a week of barely being able to eat (and we all know how much joy food brings Lauren) she went to the doctor and a workup was started.
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<div>On May 16th, Lauren presented to the emergency room because her pain had become intolerable. That is where scans showed that she had a giant tumor in her pelvis, stemming from her right ovary. When I say giant, I mean a beach ball sized mass that likely weighs over 15lbs. In true Lauren fashion, she immediately named the tumor Lenore and decided that a musical would be made to enact Lenore's journey. Check out the first act of the musical: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYmvMwsx6FP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lenore the Tumor</a>
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<div>Symptoms have been challenging as Lauren is experiencing a lot of pain and discomfort requiring around the clock medication. She is on some serious pain meds, finding comfort and humor most of the time, but is unable to engage in regular life as she has to be able to lay down when the pain flairs up.
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<div><strong>WHERE: </strong>She is currently mostly spending time at her new home in Sebastopol with her angel of a partner, Campbell. After her surgery, she will spend some time recovering at her parents’ house in Larkspur as well as Sebastopol. Much to Lauren’s dismay, Lenore will be kept by Kaiser in San Francisco. We will keep Lenore’s memory alive via a musical that is in the works, with the operatic powerhouse Alexander Kugler already cast as Lenore.
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<div><strong>WHEN:</strong> June 25th is the scheduled surgery date. She is on the waitlist in case any openings come up sooner. Kaiser has had a major backlog with their operating rooms so there is a longer than usual wait. It is frustrating to wait, but Lauren is moving through this all with grace and humor.
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<div><strong>HOW can I help?: </strong>Financial support to bridge her during these months where she can't work is the biggest form of support. Her work is her voice, her energy, and her spirit. Having a big abdominal surgery means that she won't be able to jump right back into work once the tumor is out, as the recovery will be long.
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A 15lb Tumor!? Help Lauren Arrow Heal and Recover ❤️

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<div><strong><em>This is a time sensitive call for your support!! We only have a few weeks till January 2025.</em></strong>
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<div>At the start of the new year, January 2025 a special group of folks are making our way down to Ucayali region of Peru to make a traditional plant dieta with a Master Curendero (Healing Artist), <a href="https://centromunay.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Don José Campos</a>. During a dieta an individual courts a Master Plant Teacher and becomes a student to the wisdom of the Plants. It takes courageous discipline and heartfelt devotion to learn in this way.
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<div>This particular journey is extra-ordinary. This group is majority BIPOC and female bodied - very rare down in the jungle! To experience the camaraderie that diversity offers while endeavoring the warriorship that a dieta requires is a true gift. Our hope and expectation is that this group create a ripple of benefit to touch places of relationality in the web of life that are in deep need now - and are not situated close to intersections held by the predominantly white male population in a typical jungle dieta experience.
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<div>Honeybee Courtney and Tossie Long met several years ago in a medicine circle, and in that short time, their connection has blossomed into a powerful bond. From the very beginning, they shared a vision of traveling to the jungle together - a vision rooted in their shared commitment to personal growth, healing, and mastery of their medicine work. Now, that opportunity has finally arrived. Both dedicated medicine workers, Honeybee Courtney and Tossie are embarking on a journey to work alongside master teachers in the heart of the jungle, where they will refine their skills and expand their knowledge. This collaboration marks a significant step in their paths, but they cannot do it alone—they need your help.
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<div>Tossie and Honeybee Courtney, both dedicated medicine workers, are collaborating to deepen their practice by studying with master teachers in the heart of the jungle. Their work transcends the physical, weaving together the healing of the heart, mind, and spirit. With a blend of ancient wisdom and modern insight, they create nurturing spaces where transformation unfolds. They hold a profound belief in the power of interconnectedness—when one person heals, the collective rises. Through the guidance of jungle community, ancient rituals, and the sacred wisdom of plant medicine, Honeybee and Tossie invite others to explore a deeper understanding
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<div>Generational San Franciscan Tossie Long (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate, multi-lingual Grammy nominated vocalist, international performing artist, producer, director, composer and ritualist who speaks to the intersections of sound, culture and sociopolitical edges spanning from rock and roll vocals to Afrofuturistic psycho-spiritual immersive experiences. Nicknamed "Bone Rattler '' Tossie is a practitioner of ceremonial music from around the world with a focus on diasporic cosmology. An ethnomusicologist; Tossie has voyaged to Ayiti, Cuba, Benin, Nigeria, Brazil and New Orleans tracing the migration of Vodou for an embodied devotion to music in its cultural contexts. Tossie is currently working on Red Clay Sound Haus (RCSH) an immersive sound-centric project with 4 thematic directives, Land Love Labor Legacy which explores Black sound; body, architecture and desire. As well as Sound Haus Excursions; exclusive experiences for ritualistic living. Tossie does not perform for the sake of performing, but rather to challenge and to experiment with how far she can push her perceived limits.
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<div><strong>We’ve been called to the jungle and what better way than to do it together. Black women in medicine work traveling to jungle and it’s rarity. We will be joining a BIPOC femme journey to deepen - we asking for your support to make this this dream come to fruition. </strong>
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<div>We share here to encourage your participation in this little movement to bring healing, justice, reclamation of power, remembrance of wellbeing, beauty, goodness and a dream for a better world to the hearts of more of our human family. If your heart is moved, please consider making a contribution to Honeybee Courtney and Tossie's GoFundMe. Our admiration and gratitude for their bold expressions of Love-in-action overflows.
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Empower Black Women in Medicine: Tossie and Honeybee

<div>Hello, I am Regent (Queen) and I am once again faced with the impacts of income insecurity and medical needs. After beating cancer in 2022-23; a recent mammogram of my left breast showed "abnormal" cells, which may be a precursor to breast cancer. In order to be sure, I must have surgery to remove more tissue to determine if cancer is present and remove the "abnormal" tissue. I also have a non-cancerous cyst that needs to be surgically removed in my right breast. As this news comes right after being laid-off from my position at Spirit Rock, I find myself slightly overwhelmed, yet very confident I will beat this again.
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Support Regent's Fight Against Cancer- Part 2

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<div>On Sunday night, June 2nd, someone broke into Left Coast Power Yoga and stole Malka's beautiful Harmonium out of a locked cabinet. We are seeking to replace her beautiful instrument for her classes, retreats and ceremonies. Thank you for considering making a donation to this cause!
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<div>Essential Food and Medicine (EFAM) transforms food waste into nourishment, trauma into leadership, and disconnection into healing through our HDRSS Program: Wellness, Direct Services, Recovery, Ecology, and Self-Determination.
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<div>EFAM is a project of <a href="https://www.esphera.earth/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Esphera</a>, which creates liberation through restoring ecosystems, regenerating communities, storytelling and remembering our divinity.
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<div>We distribute food surplus and natural medicines to unhoused, formerly incarcerated, and indigenous communities to regenerate people and land.
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<div>EFAM was born 3 yrs ago April 2020 at the beginning of the Pandemic. The health &amp; well being of some of the most vulnerable members of our local and global community was at the crux point of the crises. We know that solutions to the systemic root causes of illness require a holistic approach that includes mind, body, spirit, and the earth itself.
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<div>Cob on Wood, was an eco-village of community support structures built for our Wood Street houseless relatives. It was located at what was possibly the largest encampment of houseless people on the west coast. At its height, COW boasted a community kitchen, hot shower, compost toilet, pop up clinic, free store, earthen oven, fire pit, stage and community garden. EFAM worked hand in hand with unhoused residents, countless volunteers, &amp; Sister organizations like Artists Building Communities and Living Earth Structures among others to shape and caretake what was a vital community resource until it was demolished by Caltrans earlier this year.
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<div>We gratefully were accepted to the Embrace Incubator program. This will help us boost our organizational capacity and strengthen our infrastructure. Big thanks to all who have supported our work this year including Stop Waste, Good Eggs, One Small Planet and you.
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Esphera Highlight: Essential Food & Medicine (EFAM)

<p>My Peanut puppy has said goodbye to this world and grieving him has been a process. He was in and out of the hospital for a few weeks with kidney failure, a leaking heart valve and fluid in his abdomen.
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<p>Anyone who knows me knows that he was my baby and my life. I did everything I could do to give him the best quality of life and keep him around as long as I could cause he was my ride or die. In his last few weeks of life he could barely walk and he stopped eating and was basically a whisper of his spunky self. 
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Goodbye Dreamboy

After over a decade working in the educational nonprofit sector, <strong>I'm looking to move into coaching and talent development with a specific focus on supporting current and emerging leaders working toward social justice and systemic equity</strong>. I have done work in talent development as a manager and facilitator in the nonprofit sector, but I am taking this next step to become a certified coach to deepen my learning and build my readiness to more fully step into a career in coaching.<br /><br />I'll be participating in the <a href="http://www.leadershipthatworks.com/public/courses/index.cfm?semID=6710&amp;view=1">Coaching for Transformation (CFT) program through Leadership that Works from June 2019-March 2020 in Oakland, CA</a> . This program prepares coaches to take a holistic approach that considers the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual development and well being of coaching clients. It also takes a culturally responsive lens and seeks to address issues of power, privilege, and identity as important elements of leadership development.<strong> Coaches from the CFT program are working to build capacity in nonprofit organizations, social justice movements, and communities around the world.</strong> For all of these reasons, I am excited to participate in a program that aligns with my own values and hopes for the future.<br /><br /><strong>$8495</strong> covers tuition, mentoring, books, assessment, learning community and resources for the program<br /><strong>$1500</strong> covers the cost of working with a CFT certified coach as part of the program (a required component of the program that must be paid directly to the coach, separate from program tuition)<br /><br /><strong>The cost of $8495 must be paid by the start of the program on June 8th</strong>. The remaining $1500 will be paid directly to the CFT certified coach after the program begins.<br /><br />I am deeply appreciative of any support my community is able to provide toward this new endeavor! This is a step and a program I've been interested in for awhile, but the cost has been a significant barrier for me. Folks that know me well know I am often reluctant to ask for help (and I'm working on that), and that has limited me from pursuing my goals and interests in the past. <strong>I am putting this request out there humbly and with gratitude for contributions of any amount that you are able to make.</strong> It truly all makes a difference and provides encouragement for me to continue on this path.

Andres Gonzalez