In July 2009, an old friend of mine and her partner were sleeping in their bed when an intruder broke into their home and brutally raped them at knifepoint. My friend’s partner, Teresa, was stabbed to death. My friend managed to escape and survive the attack, and somehow, some way that’s still hard for me to grasp, she has also survived emotionally. Tonight I’m in Seattle for the release of The Angel Band Project’s new CD, Take You With Me, which honors the woman who died saving my friend’s life. If you’re in the Seattle area, please come to tonight’s CD release party, say hi, enjoy good music and the most powerful demonstration of love and hope you’ll ever see in the face of such ugliness. If you’re not in town, pick up a copy of the CD online: all proceeds go to The Voices and Faces Project, a non-profit which works toward ending sexual violence. Thank you.
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RobertBigelow
My fiftieth birthday gift money goes to a purchase and a donation. Oh, you bet’cha! 😮 Yours from the ba$h shell. Robert.
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Said to my wife: “You know how we can laugh about the Bed Intruder song because no one actually got hurt? Well…”
I might be able to attend the show tonight (I’m only 5ish minutes away, in Wallingford) but ping me to get together outside of that if you have the time! Maybe for some Cupcake Royale? ;^)
* http://www.cupcakeroyale.com/
RobertBigelow
Ms. G, I’d like to also help get the word out to select members of our local community and other communities with whom I’m acquainted.
In contrast to my (unfounded) stereotype, I genuinely like and care for women as sister collaborators in mirth, mayhem and geekery.
http://tx0.org/12c
tasselhoff76
Holy cow! I’m so sorry. Man … I don’t even know what to say. For some reason, I don’t feel like I ever fully appreciated that anything like this could ever happen.