Dear Bruce:

Your eclectic collection of fans at humans@things.org and Gavin's Woodpile decided to give you a birthday present by giving away to others, and making a difference on your behalf.

In BC, California, Colorado, Florida, Glasgow Scotland, Massachusetts, Melbourne Australia, Michigan, New Jersey, Oregon, Philadelphia, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Utah, and Washington State,

we gave a total of $ 850 (CAD) to:

Friends of the Earth

Habitat for Humanity

A homeless shelter in Salem, MA

Oxfam

WMNF, a community radio station in Tampa, Florida

The Red Cross for the Ebola outbreak in Zaire

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

USC Canada

Voters for Choice

and gave 90 hours of volunteer work to:

community work projects, such as cleaning up neighbourhoods, parks andstreets and planting trees

collecting books for a school library

environmental letter writing (over the internet!)

a homeless shelter

monitoring the population of the Lyrebird, a rare bird in Australia

Oxfam

Thank you for all your beautiful music. God keep you well. And Happy Birthday!!

With love from all of us,

Yours Truly,


Audrey Pearson

cc. D. Keebler