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You have choices: Donate to support my breast cancer recovery here OR Donate to my GoFundMe page that’s still raising funds to fully fund yet ANOTHER clean water well in Ghana. Download the 2025 RSL Music Guide HERE! To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the guide, I’ve left you a sweet surprise over on the download page. Also, fully available in the Dust app. (Big Thanks to Damian T for his collaboration with me this...
read moreWell. Fuckballs. This isn’t the lottery anyone hopes to win. It’s not the club you dream about joining. But here I am YES YES YES Foods! For those who are not local: I’ll be ordering some meals in the future from a meal kit delivery service. If you wish to support this, here’s my Paypal and Venmo. For those local: For meals I’d appreciate any of the following foods (or just google “er+/hormone positive breast cancer-fighting foods”) Your favorite, hearty warm or salad Buddha Bowls https://www.feastingathome.com/vegan-buddha-bowls/ are most welcome! Basic bowl formula: Grain 1-2 cooked vegetables Fresh greens Acid: slaw, pickled veggies, or citrus fruit Good fat: in dressing or avocado / nuts Protein (legumes, beans, fish, chicken, etc) Dressing or sauce: homemade, organic **Organic chicken, omega-3 rich seafood, eggs, olive oil **Fermented foods: dairy like cottage cheese, greek yogurt (honey, plain, vanilla-natural sugar), kefir, and tempeh, kimchi, kraut **Legumes: beans, lentils, peas, chickpeas **Hearty grains: quinoa, brown rice, farro, freekeh, barley, buckwheat, whole grain bread **Colorful fruits: citrus, watermelon, cantaloupe, apricots, berries of all sorts, peaches, apples, pears, and grapes **Veggies! broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, artichoke, brussels sprouts, spinach, kale, arugula, collard greens, microgreens **Tomatoes, mushrooms, cucumbers, carrots, celery, fresh beets, avocado and red, orange, yellow bell peppers and mini bell peppers **Butternut squash, sweet potatoes, yams, pumpkin, delicata squash **Garlic, onions, leeks **Nuts: walnuts, almonds **Salads make a great side! **I would LOVE your favorite, homemade non-dairy (yogurt-based ok), salad dressings! + your easy dressing recipes for the future. Please cook small container sized meals and the dishes they are in. Include clear preparation instructions. Allergy/Dietary Restrictions: ** No cow milk, butter, red meat, deli/processed meats, bacon, pork or fried or salty foods. No green peppers. No refined carbs like white rice, pasta, potatoes, white breads. ********************************** T-REX ARMS – IMPORTANT NOTE ********************************** Kate is told she will have to keep T-Rex arms & limited arm movement through May. Consider if Kate will have trouble prepping / heating & handling & carrying the meal to the table. Especially in the first month after May 7th post-surgery when she is no weight to very limited weight. She has a microwave to reheat foods. Using your own cookware/dishes? Label the dish w/your name so she can get it back to you! e-e (\_/)\ `-‘\ `–.___, ‘\( ,_.-‘...
read moreWell. Fuckballs. This isn’t the lottery anyone hopes to win. It’s not the club you dream about joining. But here I am. Some of you have been here before. Some of you might be walking it now. To get my updates along the way, go HERE and click the heart to follow the page. It’s also has details how you might support if moved to do so. Meal Train details are HERE. Here’s the full story: So, I went in for my routine mammogram. My self-referred, annual mammogram. But this time, the radiologist saw something they didn’t like. A spot at the 4:00 area on my left breast. Small, twin masses that raised enough concern to warrant a call-back. An ultrasound biopsy call-back. So, I went in and about 4 days later, I got the results. One mass came back benign—thank you, universe. The other? Not so simple. It was identified as IDC, or invasive ductal carcinoma, with DSIC—precancerous cells, nearby. Breast Cancer. Caught early. In that moment? I felt powerless. Worried. Numb. Shocked. Angry. All of it. And—just to make things more complicated—I also felt grateful, curious, relieved, and strangely hopeful. It felt like I got emotionally abducted, aliens hijacking the control panel, setting off every feeling inside me all at once. I didn’t even know my body could hold that many feelings in one breath, but there I was—trying to make sense of it all while my Bowie dog was already curled up on top of me like a weighted blanket with fur. Just breathing with me. Holding space. Not asking me to figure it out, just letting me be. Breast Cancer. Specifically, ER+ HER2-. That’s my current diagnosis. Which means I am estrogen/progesterone hormone positive, BUT I am HER2-. It is the most common type of breast cancer diagnosed –with a 99% survival rate. Genetic testing? Negative. (Insert a massive exhale here.) An MRI showed no abnormal involvement with right now, no spread to the lymph nodes. That is, hands down, the best-case scenario inside the worst-case situation. What does all this mean? It means—I’m going to LIVE. Again, caught early. That last part—caught early—is what I hold onto like a lifeline some days. It’s what lets me breathe a little deeper, even as everything else feels wildly uncertain. Like a blessing dressed up in a hospital gown. Even with all the “good news,” the emotional rollercoaster came in hot. My calendar blew up overnight—appointments, scans, consults, second opinions, then third ones. My brain went into overdrive, trying to stay on top of everything. But my heart, emotions? They couldn’t keep up. My feelings were stuck in a thick fog, barely moving. And my body… it felt caught in limbo—between the ME I was before and the ME I was suddenly becoming… the one with cancer. I had no idea how complex this all could be. I thought “breast cancer” was A thing. It’s not. There are layers. Intricacies. And just when I thought I had a plan—a solid direction —one little test result could toss it all back into the tornado spinning me in a whole new direction. This journey has been a wild, exhausting swing between gratitude and grief. One moment I’m holding onto every good sign. The next I was back in the...
read moreThe biggest thanks you can give me for curating the Rock Star Librarian Music Guide is to donate to my GoFundMe page raising funds to reach our stretch goal this year so we fully fund a third clean water well in Ghana. $100 gives 20 people clean water! And get the Time to Burn app for iOS and Android that makes searchable all of the eplaya events AND includes the RSL Music Guide. Also available in the Dust app. Download the 2024 RSL Music Guide HERE! ...
read moreThe 2024 RSL Music Guide Database is open for submissions! NEW Submission Deadline is WEDNESDAY, August 14th, 9pm Pacific * If you have NEVER submitted to the music guide before: You need to send me an email at therockstarlibrarian at gmail dot com with your name, email, and camp name asap in order to be given credential registration access. DO NOT wait til the last minute to request registration. * If your camp/MV has submitted in the past but YOU are new to the submission process: You need to send me an email at therockstarlibrarian at gmail dot com with your name, email, and camp name asap. Make sure last year’s lead is NOT dupping efforts please. * If you you are a camp / MV music lead who’ve submitted in 2023 or before & you haven’t received an email from me with your submission invite… email me! I have a new email list and send registration emails to those new leads. THIS list is the new way I will be corresponding about all thing Music Guide now and moving forward. Once I add you to the list, Go Find the confirmation email from kate at rockstarlibrarian dot come and click the button, “Confirm My Subscription.” AND PLEASE DO THESE THINGS! 1. Search your inbox for an email from Kate at Rockstarlibrarian dot com directing you to confirm your subscription to my new email list for music leads, as this is the list I’m sending all things music guide moving forward.2. Create a filter for my gmail email below and Kate at Rockstarlibrarian dot com so that my future emails always land in your primary inbox! 3. New / new this year to the guide or new music lead for your camp? Email me at THErockstarlibrarian at gmail dot com to get the optin email to my email list! Does my camp music offering meet the criteria to be in the RSL Music Guide? Is your camp’s primary focus and gift to BRC music? Would you call yourself a sound camp? Or a music camp? Example: Rootpile – a bluegrass music camp where the stage and music is the focus and gift to the city. YES! RSL Guide! Example: My camp is hosting a Grateful Dead Party on Thursday and we will be playing the Sept 21st, 1972 live concert taped recording at The Spectrum, in Philadelphia as part of our party. No RSL Guide. OR My camp is a karaoke camp and we want people to come to sing daily. No RSL Guide. (though I love me some karaoke!) If you are a camp that simply has themed events each day accompanied by (even DJed) music, your event is best promoted through the Who What Where When. If you are unsure, email me and ask me! YOU get to enter your lineups, edit them, and update them up until the HARD cut-off deadline of WEDNESSDAY August 14th 9pm pacific. And since it’s been a minute since we thought about any of this… Please please please: Do not wait until the last minute to contact me to get access to the database or to submit your lineup to the guide. DO NOT send me PDFs, your digital promotional flier or in-email text lineups, or a link to your spreadsheet,...
read moreThe biggest thanks you can give me for curating the Rock Star Librarian Music Guide is to donate to my GoFundMe page raising funds to reach our stretch goal this year so we fully fund a third clean water well in Ghana. $100 gives 20 people clean water! Printing Configurations There are entirely *too many printing instruction variations* out there for me to attempt to list. If you have helpful instructions on how to print for your specific home inkjet and/or laser printer, please post instructions with your printer model info in the comments to help your fellow Burners. And get the Time to Burn app for iOS and Android that makes searchable all of the 2023 eplaya events AND includes the RSL Music Guide. Download the 2023 RSL Music Guide HERE!...
read moreOnce again, the BIGGEST thanks you can give me for curating the Rock Star Librarian Music Guide is to donate to my GoFundMe page where I continue to raise funds to reach our stretch goal this year and fully fund another clean water well in Ghana. $100 gives 20 people clean water! The Guide is only available in digital format this year and one format (inflation, supply chain etc) so print out extras for gifts, for camps, for a Birgin you suprise with it. And get the Time to Burn app for iOS and Android that makes searchable all of the eplaya events and includes the RSL Music...
read moreThe biggest thanks you can give me for curating the Rock Star Librarian Music Guide is to donate to my GoFundMe page raising funds to reach our stretch goal this year so we fully fund a third clean water well in Ghana. $100 gives 20 people clean water! Printing Configurations There are entirely *too many printing instruction variations* out there for me to attempt to list. If you have helpful instructions on how to print for your specific home inkjet and/or laser printer, please post instructions with your printer model info in the comments to help your fellow Burners. The RSL Music Guide on the Playa Pick up a printed guide on playa at BMIR radio, 5:45 & Rod’s Road (aka Esplanade near center camp), while supplies last. And get the Time to Burn app for iOS and Android that makes searchable all of the 2019 eplaya events and includes the RSL Music Guide. Download the 2019 RSL Music Guide...
read moreI previously chatted with a very special guest and long time Burner, Gary the Unigoat – Follow him @garytheunigoat on Instagram. The always hilarious Gary tells it like it is and why he’s on fire backing this incredible cause. While we hit the original goal he speaks about, Gary is wise and fun, and continues to support clean water for humankind. Let’s do this and leave a legacy by donating enough to build another clean water well in Ghana! Please, forward this message, page and video to your Burner tribe, camps and community and encourage them to donate also so we can succeed at our goal! Big Love, Kate Houston, the Rock Star Librarian...
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