Desert Bus for Hope starts this Friday.
Most years, I take a week off work to watch it (not this year, sadly).
"You're taking a week off work to watch a stream?" I hear you ask? Yes! But it's far more than that.
Desert Bus for Hope is a charity stream that has been running for 11 years now, and made over 3.7 MILLION dollars for Child's Play.
It is the single greatest source of positivity and community for me each year.
Every year, thousands of people donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to make things less shitty for kids, and I'm proud to be a small part of that community.
"It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness." - Alex Steacy (quoting someone else, I assume).
@korvys This idiom has had a long strange trip: apocryphally Chinese, misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, apparently first used in a book of sermons from 1901. https://books.google.com/books?id=WFU3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA218#v=onepage&q&f=false
I'll leave you with one of the most important moments, also from Alex Steacy, from last year's Desert Bus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq1qB5QkOmk
https://desertbus.org/