From the earnest twin

[Joel Pomerantz]

Hey! A couple weeks ago, my evil twin Joel sent out a Musick Note falsely claiming that a donation to Musick Creek Confluence (to help pay for and preserve the land) gets *you* nothing.

He could not be more wrong. I’m here, the earnest twin, to tell you all that it will get you.

a) A tax write-off (okay, he did mention that, glancingly)
b) A huge thank you!
c) An offer to join this email list (doh! you’re already on it!)
d) Once you are on this list (check), you will get invitations to more involvement! You will get information about doings, deeds ambitions and opportunities.
e) You will get asked to donate again!
f) You will be encouraged to help with projects and work parties
g) You will receive the intangible, invaluable blessings of the future ecological and educational, cultural and outdoorsical happiness that will inevitably ensue. (You’ll feel extra good.)
h) You can even name some natural feature, phenomenon, feeling or organism on the property. Sure, why not?
i) You can adopt a waterfall or just a few drops of water.

Earnest Joel is here to tell you: Don’t let the hyperbole, sardony and sophistry of my evil twin bog you down.

Donate early and often! We have to raise more than $10,000 a month just to meet our minimum loan payments. Without any paid staff or fundraising fanciness.

Sure, evil-Joel wrote clues in his indirect way that he was being sarcastic. Earnest Joel is here to tell it right. Give to this 501(c)(3) nonprofit and you get everything your heart desires! (Of course your heart desires the same things mine does.)

Love,
Joel (this one)

5 WAYS TO DONATE
Zelle ➪ use 415-505-8255
Venmo (specify 'for Musick') ➪ use @JoelPomerantz
Check to Musick Creek Confluence, PO Box 170191, SF, CA 94117
PayPal or credit card (specify 'for Musick') ➪ use doa...@icloud.com
GoFundMe ➪ http://crowdrise.com/musick-creek

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> 3. What your donation gets you and doesn't get you.
> When you give a tax deductible contribution to Musick Creek Confluence, a nonprofit 501(c)(3), it doesn’t get you a damn thing. Except a sense of satisfaction of whatever sort you weave. But nothing else. That’s it. Nothing more.
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> You won’t get a statue. You won’t get a brick. You won’t get a bumpersticker or a tote bag.
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> It doesn’t get you any special rights. Anyone can participate and learn more about the beautiful Musick Creek area with or without making a donation.
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> Your donation also might accomplish something. But it’s not for you. It's for everyone.
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> It might just help to build a saner world, with a flourishing, lively, flexible, more resilient diverse natural environment. It might just protect and improve the local stash of biological wonders—good lookin’ and good smellin’ flowers, plus flowers that exist nowhere else, plus charismatic megafauna (bears, cougars, ladybug colonies).
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> Oh, and giant manzanita, granite moss communities, bats, birds, fish, lichens, foxes.
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> I saw a few kinds of woodpeckers last visit. I nibbled wild onions. I photographed a very wrinkled tree near the plank bridge. I named it Rumplebarkskin. It weaves email into gold.
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> So sorry. Your donation doesn’t get you a damn thing. Unless you can see beyond a damn thing.