$6000 USD Raised for the Tiny House Warriors!

I’m excited to announce that enough funds have come in from contributions and sponsorships that we have amassed $6000 USD in donations! That is $7104.96 CAD!

Hitting this milestone, and seeing the urgent need for the funds, we have just sent this payment directly to the Tiny House Warriors!

If you haven’t fulfilled your pledge yet (there are a couple of you), don’t worry, you’re not too late. The website will continue to allow donations as an ongoing campaign, and periodically we will send them what we receive.

Thank you so much to the 47 individual donors who contributed to this sum, the people who helped amplify the messaging, and the encouragement in general!

I’d also like to thank my good friend and compatriot Derek Hoshiko who always seems to have my back when I start crazy things like this, and brings skills to the table I simply don’t possess.

Just like climbing Coquihalla Pass, WE DID IT!

HOWEVER, WE’RE NOT DONE YET……

I’d like to offer an apology to the readers of this blog that the next story on the Return to Athabasca has taken so long to get out the door! The next video details the final leg to the Healing Gathering itself, and finally a look at the tar sands themselves. It is turning into the most complex yet.

Adding to the difficulty is that some of our footage from the pilgrimage suffered data corruption, and we’ve been having to work with what we could recover. The good news is that we have what we need to tell the story. The bad news was that each clip we recovered required many nights of work trying to make them playable. Both Derek and I have spent many late nights on this over the past couple weeks.

That said, the Healing Gathering video is shaping up to be impressive, but it’s just not done yet.

Expect to see it in the first week of July, and a more regular continuation of videos from there onward.

-Phil