A CHILD IN MORTAL DANGER

Thank you, from the bottom of my goddamn heart, to everyone who's had the chance to contribute to the effort to save a little girl's life – if you haven't seen the prior post, Amjad's very young, very sick niece has been ill for some time, and she was just diagnosed with a blood infection and respiratory breakdown that will cost $5,000 to treat. That means the linked fundraiser has to hit $21,500.

We're at almost $18,000 on the fundraiser; get us to $20k, or close enough, and I'll bring it home. If we could get $20 from 100 people, or $40 from 50, or $25 from 80. It is a foul fucking world in which there's a literal price on the life of an innocent little girl, or on any life at all, but here, at least we know what the price is, and it's not out of reach.

I'm going to say something more fulsome soon, but I have been moved to a degree I wouldn't have thought possible by your generosity, all of you, and much the same as when I first got to know Palestinians in Gaza, my general estimate of humanity is now higher thanks to you. I knew human beings were capable of militarized extermination in front of the entire world, with no ramifications at all; I didn't know that there were this many people who would go out of their way to help save lives that should not end, that do not need to end, that are teetering toward their ends for 100% manmade reasons, no "necessity," no grand efficient cause.

I'm more grateful for your contributions than I know how to say right now, and you have been crucial parts of something that's worth living for, something that you'll never need to wonder about or reevaluate. Thank you, in the name of the last surviving merciful god, thank you.

M