Mental Health Awareness

October is domestic Violence Awareness Month.  Willow Center is the place in my city Rochester, NY helping the community.  Step up and support them.  

 #withWillow    End Domestic Violence #EndDV Domestic Violence Awareness month #DVAM
https://willowcenterny.org/

 

When you #WalkWithWillow your support means emergency shelter, counseling, and housing
assistance for thousands of survivors each year. Please join the virtual MOVEment to help end domestic violence now. 

 

Register at   

http://bit.ly/WillowWalk 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reach out to your friends.  This pandemic has harmed us in ways we have not seen before.  staying home and sheltering in place is difficult for many and impossible for some.  Domestic violence is rising .  send a text or make a phone call to a friend you have not heard from recently.  

 

Help is here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Group in Syracue NY is Vera house.  I first learned about them many years ago at the NYS Fair by their t-shirt display at the fair.  I was moved by the incredible  shirts made by the survivors.verahouse

Their annual Gala is online this year.  link to help is below.  

 

 Vera House No Show GALA 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Buy Local from the Maker 

My shop:  Panda Wear Website
Facebook:  PandaWire Facebook
Twitter:  Panda Wear Gems  
Instagram: Instagram

For every $100 you spend at a local business,  $68 stay in the community. 

Remember Black Lives Matter!

We are in this together. Wear a Mask, Stay home, Stay safe, Flatten the curve, Facts Matter. 14 days until the election.  Please vote. I have.

Indigenous Peoples Day

How to pick my topic for the week?  What to write this week... so many important things

on my mind on Monday and with those of the people in the USA right now. I normally publish this weekly on Mondays. 

• Indigenous Peoples Day (Monday)
• Black Lives Matter 
• Mental Health Awareness / Suicide Prevention
  
• VOTE! 21 days until the Election
• Cancer
• End of 2020 without Art Festivals
• Not Politics – Human Rights 
•  Womens Small Business Month 
• DIY earrings or bracelets
• Why Gemstones in my work?
  

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.  I normally publish this weekly on Mondays.  As with many special holidays, I believe we should celebrate this for longer than one day. Water is Life became the know phrase to capture the movement began because of the DAP Dakpta Access Pipeline by the  Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.  

Mother Jones article here on another positive step

Mother Jones March 2020

 

 

 

 

For Education  Search 
 I Can't Breathe
Black Lives Matter
and read from fact checked news sources.  As a supporter I need to speak up.  Please join me. 

 Highly Recommend this book.  It was humbling.

when they call you a terrorist

a black lives matter memoir

Black Lives Still Matter!

 

 

Reach out to your friends.  This pandemic has harmed us in ways we have not seen before.  staying home and sheltering in place is difficult for many and impossible for some.  Domestic violence is rising .  send a text or make a phone call to a friend you have not heard from recently. 

Help is here