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Hello! My older sister is currently escaping a domestic violence situation. She has been financially abused and suddenly cut off from their joint finances by her ex, and received a ten-day eviction notice while in the process of financially recovering.

She is at risk of being homeless in winter with two children, and of uprooting her child with an intellectual disability from his support system.

I know this is a tough time for all and that I've asked for help frequently lately, but our family has exhausted our resources and we are unable to get the funds together to keep them housed.

Her most urgent goal is 1,500, to pay her rent and avoid immediate eviction, but the full goal would help her find a new place and fully remove herself from an unsafe environment.

Anything at all would help her and her children tremendously, and I can provide more receipts to verify the situation in private if necessary.

“My boy Spatula bunking down for a snowy night” 

I forced myself to draw something after the 2016 election. I forced myself to draw something when my mother died in 2018. I forced myself to draw something when my spouse was hospitalized for multiple organ failure in 2021.

When you are miserable, make something. Add a row to your project, bake a box cake, draw on a sheet of lined paper, write a poem on a napkin, fold an origami shirt out of a dollar bill, make your favorite recipe for dinner, but make something with your hands, something that you can hold and look at engage your senses in.