Jupiter Snow

Hello All

I spent yesterday writing up a GoFundMe for Cosmos Market and working on cleaning up the last details of my business plan that can be found on the Angel Investors Network.

This is what the GoFundMe says:

Greeting All, Between 12/24/2019 and 12/30/2019 I need to raise $10,000 if I wish to achieve my goal of opening a bookstore in the building I have picked out and an agreement for Lease to Buy with the owner.  The signing date is not until 1/1/2020 for the contract, but the money needs at least twenty-four hours to process, which is why I went for the 12/30/2019 as the last day.

I thought the original GoFundMe was still active, but it was not, thus I am making a new one. Otherwise I would have made this at the start of the month. That is my oversight, brought on by a lot of things going wrong this month. That said, I hope this goes right.

What will the $10,000 do? Get me a down payment on the store! I had an investor willing to do that amount, but he backed out at the beginning of the month while the negotiations with the realtor and business owners were happening.

I am also reaching out to several other investors, some for a second or third time as they have been on the fence.

Cosmos Market will be an indie and used bookstore, artisan craft market, and eventual farm market.

I know some are wondering: how will you stock it if you don’t have money Jaimi? I have stock, shelving, multiple vendors for the artisan crafts and farm market, several different indie authors to do different book signings, I even have at least one employee besides myself ready to go. What I do not have is a building for it!

Why support this bookstore and market? Reading is great! It builds imagination and worlds, hopes and dreams. More than that, Cosmos Market will have a variety of community based programs such as a Breakfast and Lunch Book Clubs where folks can come for healthy food, listen to a book, and discuss it; book signings with various local authors; writing programs; kids crafts time; children’s story time; poetry readings; and a book exchange program to name some of the programs. While not all the programs will be started at the same time, due to financial constraints, the goal is to have all of them up and running in the first year!

Cosmos Market started off as my life long dream of owning a bookstore. It has grown as I have researched the local area, spoke with current and past bookstore owners, and spoke with community members. It would mean the world to me if I was able to make this happen after years of struggling.

The goal of $10,000 is just the bare minimum to get the store, the GoFundMe goal is $11,000 to make sure all fees are paid on here and at the bank for raising the money.

If 400 people were willing to do $27, it would be instantly at the $10,000 plus cover all of the GoFundMe fees!

Right now I am at:

 $0/$10,000

Share this please so I can stop begging for help! So that even if the disability falls through I will have something (albeit very small something since I will be lucky to be able to work once a week with my health) to pay my bills and stop having to ask all the time!

I am mass pinging you in hopes you wonderful writers, some of which hope to be authors some day, would be willing to SHARE my post. Yes, I need money, and if you have a little to spare, that’d be wonderful, but sharing the information, here and across other social media is just as important! 

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“Traditional Maasai lifestyle centres around their cattle which constitute their primary source of food. The measure of a man’s wealth is in terms of cattle and children. A herd of 50 cattle is respectable, and the more children the better. A man who has plenty of one but not the other is considered to be poor.[37] A Maasai religious belief relates that God gave them all the cattle on earth, leading to the belief that rustling cattle from other tribes is a matter of taking back what is rightfully theirs, a practice that has become much less common.[38]”

Shit, down here in Brazil we not only offered to send tracking units and doctors to help in 9/11 but we wanted to send a whole lot of donations to help with Katrina (we have experience with floods down here so we knew what kind of medicine to send to prevent outbreaks). 

We alone had like 2 army airplanes full of medicine and non-perishables like baby formula, diapers, bottled water, mosquito nets and other stuff that’s needed to fight opportunistic diseases that hit flooded areas, enough to assist a good few thousand people at least, ready to go the day after it hit, but your government refused the donations. 

The same thing happened to the Canadians and Europeans who offered help, the US embassies around the world told us all to give money to Red Cross.

And so we did, we all gave hundreds of millions of dollars to them, and then this happened:

Red Cross scandals tarnish relief efforts

‘Breathtaking’ Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid

I didn’t know that other countries tried to help after 9/11 or Katrina. Like, that’s something we, the people, should hear about and we don’t.

Most the time, when people say “oh FEMA or something sent people right?” re: fires, its actually people from other countries showing up and kinda ignoring the government telling them to fuck off and staying on behalf of local departments because we REALLY need them. 

If there’s a huge ass disaster, and the government is sitting there with a thumb up it’s ass, help is offered and most the time– shit, it gets there! But then the feds do something really fucking dirty. They insist they were the help, if it’s talked about at all. 

They insist those people putting out fires were federal people, because to most people a fireman’s a fireman. The people handing out water and food, a relief worker is a relief worker. So on and so forth. 

We had people come up when the fires were so bad a while ago– not the Australians, but i think there was like a German group of like 3 guys that flew themselves over? They came out of sheer “this is horrible and we’re helping” and my dad [local fire chief] had them working with our guys and the feds lost no time telling every news outlet that it was THEIR people doing all the fire knockdowns and structure work when these guys were running into buildings and grabbing people, pets, and people’s important documents because they knew papers were a pain in the ass to replace. 

What you gotta understand is that our government is very intent on selling us and the rest of the world [as much as possible] the idea of a powerful and self reliant country. All our reporting on disasters, starts with the scaremongering and then moves to “but our people can handle it because we’re the best at handling things” and then they move on before the idea it’s out of control comes to mind. The average person outside of the disaster has no idea, if they have never been around such an event or met someone who regularly deals with these things, they will kinda probably nod along with that. Because we have no real scope on the scale and impact– by design. Our media intake is very controlled to slant everything to the “eh, we can handle it and everyone else out there– they need our help because they’re not so good at handling disasters like we are.” People who know better, reading international news, interacting with international social groups, looking outside their sphere of community– we know better but that kinda slant is really hard to break from because of that grip American media has on information. So, taking that knowledge, we further have restricted reporting on certain disasters because they’re considered unimportant.  Hurricanes are considered important, earthquakes are only considered important if it wrecks something the government cares about or somewhere a couple million people live that they’ll upset the national money flow/they can throw money at someone to make the news care, floods are only important if it’s in a similar manner to earthquakes but since they occur annually they’re rarely reported on nationally, mudslides that kill people or leave hundreds homeless aren’t important to the government even through they happen constantly, wildfires that consume most of the nation/continent each year generally are unimportant until they consume a town or threaten a government interest/money flow location. Terrorist attacks are always important because people will talk about them.

So, when we do get help for any of the above, it’s possible that most people may have no idea about what’s happened, let alone that help’s been sent. Or if people know something happened, the details are vague– the news don’t care to give the nitty gritty. You’ll know something happened and people are suffering and “gee, isn’t it good you’re not them” and then now the weather.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina 

“our love could level a thousand mountains and conquer a million cities”

Which I actually agree with.

But in the same article the writer complained (I’m paraphrasing) “If you cast a black guy as Tony Stark, no one will think of him as Tony Stark, they’ll always think of him as Black Tony Stark.”

I have to point out a big flaw in that logic:

Children.

Everyone in the older generation thinks of Obama as “the black president.” You know who doesn’t think of Obama as “the black president”? 10 year olds. Obama is the only president they can remember. He got elected when they were two.

There are children who listen to Fall Out Boys’ “Centuries” and don’t know they borrowed the opening riff from Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner.” As far as they’re concerned, that’s Fall Out Boy’s riff.

There are children who don’t remember that The Rock was Dwayne Johnson’s wrestling name.

My favorite version of  A Christmas Carol is The Muppet Christmas Carol. I don’t care how Bob Cratchit was written in the original story because as far as I’m concerned, the real Bob Cratchit is a bright green frog puppet that’s my canon you can’t stop me.

There are a dozen incarnations of every possible comic book character. And every vigilante superhero we read about today is based on the original vigilante superhero – The Scarlet Pimpernel. There is no real version, there is only your favorite version. Every version that isn’t your favorite is going to feel fake to you.

THOU is the subject (Thou art…) THEE is the object (I look at thee) THY is for words beginning in a consonant (Thy dog) THINE is for words beginning in a vowel (Thine eyes)

Further to the PSA:

Thou/thee/thine is SINGULAR ONLY.

Verbs with “thou” end in -st or -est: thou canst, thou hast, thou dost, thou goest.  Exception: the verbs will, shall, are, and were, which add only -t: thou wilt, thou shalt, thou art, thou wert.

Only in the indicative, though – when saying how things are (“Thou hast a big nose”).  Not in the subjunctive, saying how things might be (“If thou go there…”) nor in the imperative, making instructions or requests (“Go thou there”).

The -eth or -th ending on verbs is EXACTLY EQUIVALENT TO THE -(e)s ENDING IN MODERN ENGLISH.

I go, thou goest, she goeth, we go, ye go, they go.

If you wouldn’t say “goes” in modern English, don’t say “goeth” in Shakespearean English.

“Goeth and getteth me a coffee” NO.  KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Usually with an imperative you put the pronoun immediately after the verb, at least once in the sentence (“Go thou” / “Go ye”).

YE is the subject (Ye are…).  YOU is the object.

Ye/you/your is both for PLURALS and for DEFERENCE, as vous in French.

It… is… DONE!!!

(Well, mostly. This is just the first reference grammar draft and a dictionary. I still have to make and translate a few sample texts and fix that weird ergative/subject verb thing.)

But anyway, I’ve published Kengithi! You can find a link to it on my home page (or right here).

I apologize for the kind of boring formatting. I gave up trying to fit it into my current theme.