#readytohelp

Waiting for a video to process for upload on tumblr is like waiting for Charmed! 2026 to arrive.

While we wait for the 100 Day Countdown Day 88 video to upload (and we're closing in on an hour now, so that's fun), let's talk about Volunteering!

We NEED You!

It would be awesome if you'd (YES YOU) volunteer to help make Charmed! 2026 the best Charmed! ever! Volunteers receive a number of financial perks, depending on how many shifts they work, including discounted or free registration, food assistance, and room space. (A note, it's possible that room space now has a waiting list.) There are also social perks to volunteering - are you new to the scene, new to attending in-person, or someone who best interacts with people in a structured setting? Volunteering provides a simple, low barrier way to meet and interact with people! Plus there is a volunteer raffle which is stocked (in part) by our many wonderful vendors! (Although anyone who wants to donate to it can - you can consider this a hint if you so desire.)

We are looking for volunteers in all areas, but especially need Team Leads for Setup/Takedown and Assistants to Kitty. Mark "Lead Volunteer/Community Liaison" on the form for these positions.

VOLUNTEER HERE!

(an animation that shows falling snowflakes against a blue background, behind the Charmed! 2026 logo and the words "Are you ready to HELP?" A green and white cartoon cat dances in the lower right hand corner of the graphic.)

Volunteer for Charmed! 2026!

We're looking for people to fill every part of our regular Volunteer Team, including a Setup/Takedown Volunteer Team Lead! As a Team Lead for this position, you'll be responsible for coordinating, training, and overseeing Setup/Takedown Volunteers.

Here's their job description: This position will be needed to both help assist with setting up the con as well as help taking it down, but could also be needed throughout as the need presents itself. Please keep in mind that this can at times be a physically demanding position and we will need some people who are able to lift and move items of varying weight. (Anything from putting up papers to lifting heavy duty dungeon equipment.)

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.

Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by.

Although the other man couldn’t hear the band – he could see it. In his mind’s eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days and weeks passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside.

He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.

It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window

The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.