A plea from a retired musician
Rock musicians fall generally into two classes: those who made a ton of money and those who didn’t, and the latter group far exceeds the size of the former.
Earlier this year, Carolyne Mas, 53, retired from performing and went into full-time animal rescue. It’s been rewarding, emotionally if not necessarily financially, but sometimes things go wrong:
It is 3 AM on Sunday morning, and my friend Don has just finished vacuuming the water from our attic. Our hot water heater broke upstairs, sending water pouring into all four bedrooms, and the hallway that leads to them. We will have to replace the laminate floors throughout that part of the house, and possibly the ceilings, and a couple of the walls.
The BAD news is that I just sold both of my gold watches on eBay to be able to pay for the building of a new outdoor kennel for the 25 cats I just rescued from a kill (via gassing) shelter in Georgia. Everything was going to proceed just fine and dandy until tonight. There is no telling how much the insurance company will pay me towards the extensive repairs I will have to make because of this disaster, but I do know that they have a tendency to make you wait weeks before you even see a penny. I need to be able to not only build the kennels now, but also pay for the repairs, and both need to happen as soon as possible so we can all have a place to sleep.
I am therefore putting up a PayPal button on my Web site and asking that if any of you out there can donate anything to help, I would greatly appreciate it. I have donated money to many causes in the past, so I am hoping that some good karma will be coming my way because of this. My PayPal ID to where you can send money is the same as my email address, which is samlorac at aol.com.
Donations will be received by Our Animal Haus, Inc. I’ve already sent mine.
