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also before it starts - from ur friendly public sector worker there are absolutely limits on how much you should reasonably give to one organization. for most public sector financing and accounting, someone writing a check for $50 million is actually more of a problem than it is a help because the org will not have the capacity to spend it but "saving" it is incredibly difficult and can be very complicated for medium to small organizations. it's a lot of accounting and weirdness and the org might not have the staff to even do that. it's also not great for building a sustainable budget, which is something that other funding orgs will be looking for when they go out for other grants, etc. that's why nonprofits you donate to will vastly prefer $5 a month over $100 at once - they can build a budget around a reliable $5 a month. they can't do that if they're just hoping and waiting for $100 at a time here and there. the best practice for giving a significant sum to an organization is to work with the organization and determine how much they can reasonably receive that will pass through an audit and support their budget and operations. that might be $100K, it might be $100M, but it's up to the org! massive amounts at once are usually not the best! demanding to know why someone doesn't give $100M at once just proves you don't know what you're talking about!

maureen2musings

Somerset, Southwest England

ola_monola

anglaised

lets investigate why we associate women with bad i think we should do that lets all do that together

pommegf

overlooking Gurnard's Head Mine at Treen Cove

what a GOAL!

expressions-of-nature

by Vladimir Ryabkov

macrolit

pocket-lilacs

July’s started which means it’s my birthday week!

which means I’m officially in my late twenties and I don’t know how to feel about it I really don’t I’m trying so hard to be positive but…

pocket-lilacs

Actually you know what in lieu of certain other birthdays this week I’m going to celebrate mine even harder 😎

#that’s my positive spin lol #spite

have-you-been-here

Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Minnesota, USA

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Remaining time: 5 days 5 hours

#heck yeah

bookshelf-in-progress

I hesitate to make this a sweeping statement, but I do think that to be a writer, you have to on some level love words as an artistic medium. Words can't just be the annoying limitation that make it more difficult to share your beautiful daydream. They can't just be the storytelling method you choose because you don't have the skills or resources to make any other kind of media.

You have to love the art of words for its own sake. Love the sound of words--how you can make music of a million different rhythms and moods, how the words and sentences you choose can make a million different atmospheres. Love what you can do with words--paint an image, share an emotion, put a person into a scene that only exists in the world of imagination. Love the different ways you can use words--different points of view and tenses, different formats and styles that can each provide a different experience of the story for the reader. You have to love words as your artistic tool and delight in learning new ways to wield them and new effects that you can create with them.

If you don't love words, there are other ways to tell a story. Writing is an artistic medium with it own strengths and weaknesses, and using it as your artistic medium should be a deliberate choice made out of love for this artform.