Paypal button for donations

Hello everyone,

Due to a large volume of requests, you can now make donations via PayPal. PayPal accepts all major credit cards, as well as direct transfers from bank accounts. All donations will go for two purposes:

1) Helping us secure a new living space, this includes costs for housing deposit, utility deposit, and any upfront rent requirements; and,

2) Costs that will go towards helping us replace our things. This includes essentials like clothes, kitchen items, linens, basic furniture needs, and the like, as well as things we need but aren’t immediately essential. This includes replacing my musical gear (which is how I make most of my living via performing and lessons), library (which I need for continuing my studies), my wife’s rather substantial yarn collection (which she uses to make and occasionally sell items to provide an additional income stream for us), and other things that we need to replace, but aren’t necessarily immediate priority.

I know I can get another tenor sax eventually. What I can’t do is get another antique Beuscher with which I’ve become so intimately familiar I know every intonation quirk and trick needed to make things like altissimo notes work properly. But thank God we’re ok and even though some things will be difficult to replace, the truth is that stuff is just stuff – again, thank God no one was injured or worse.

Donations can be made using the button below. Thank you again, we love you and covet your prayers. Also, don’t feel like you have to give any certain amount – anything from $1 to $100 would be amazing, as would anything in between. Most of all it’s good to know that people care and are willing to stand with us in this difficult time.

Edited to add: I’ve also added a banner link for donations. Obviously it’s nothing special, I have quite a bit of other things to worry about – if anyone out there wants to make something better that would totally be cool. Otherwise, you’re going to have to look at my plain-jane banner for the next few weeks.