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The people who keep this free
Everyone on this wall read something one morning, decided it was worth keeping alive, and paid a bill that was not theirs. Not one of them had to.
The wall does not say who gave what. It says who was here. Some asked for no name at all, and some put somebody else’s name where theirs would have gone.
7
people on the wall
8
are here every month
1
gave in someone’s name
2023
the first one
Here every month
They gave once and then kept deciding to. Nobody on this wall is listed for what they gave, but these are the people who let me plan a year instead of a week, and every one of them is on this page however many there come to be.
Marcus
Has been here every month since 2023, long before this page existed to say so. Three years of quiet, and I noticed every one.
Naseer
Started in the spring and has not missed a month since. The kind of steady I can plan around.
Anonymous
Wrote to me about the missing pieces our loved ones leave behind, and the love that outlasts them. Keeps that love going here every month.
Five more
Give every month without their names on this wall.
Here more than once
Gave, and then in some other year gave again, for their own reasons and without being asked.
JamesMichigan
Came back a third time this October, without being asked, which is the whole point of this group.
Here once
Which was never nothing, and was never expected twice. They get a line of their own, the same as everybody else.
DonTennessee
Gave once, in July, and asked for nothing. That morning's reading went out because of people like him.
StevenCalifornia
One gift in September, out of the blue. I never found out which verse it was, but something landed.
RobertTexas
Gave once in September. Small, he might say. It paid for more mornings than he knows.
The names they carried
The donors were thinking about these people, and asked for their names to be written down instead of their own.
All who go before us
In memory of · given by Anonymous
Wrote to me about the missing pieces our loved ones leave behind, and the love that outlasts them. Keeps that love going here every month.
What this wall pays for
Bills, and nothing grander.
- Sending the morning email to the list $693 / mo
- Keeping the mailing system working ~$368 / mo
- The server this site runs on $28 / mo
- Domain, backups, the security certificate $65 / yr
- Covered so far by the people who give every month 8 of 44
I write every one of these lines myself, which takes longer than you would think and is the only part of this whole business I have never once resented. A list of names is a phone book. These are not names to me.
Thomas
There is room here, and the line I write for you will be about you.
No amounts, ever. The only thing recorded beside your name is how long you have been here.