On Saturday, May 17, 2025, I will be participating in---hopefully running---the 5K Divided Sky Fun(d) Run with many others to raise funds primarily for The Divided Sky Foundation, and would greatly appreciate your help.

Read More to see how you can help me raise funds not only for Trey's Divided Sky Foundation but also the fan-run Mockingbird Foundation (whose volunteers manage this website) and Phish's charitable organization, The WaterWheel Foundation.

Trey's sobriety has been and continues to be inspiring to me and countless others. I will be forever grateful to him and all those who helped him achieve it and maintain it. And I don't need to explain to you all how Phish's life-changingly glorious music over the decades has rapturously uplifted by soul and brought me immense joy, and also brought joy to people worldwide. It, too, is an inspiration for all of us ("No shit," you may be thinking, but please read on).

The Divided Sky Foundation and its mission---"to provide a safe, supportive space where individuals can begin their journey to recovery, inspired by the music and community spirit that brought us here" and "foster[ ] healing from the past while gaining the skills needed for a healthier future," including the ability to "experience joy in sobriety"---deserve our support.

Please help me fundraise by donating in any amount at all whatsoever on my "fundraising page." Your donation is tax-deductible as the Foundation is a 501c3. For every donation recorded on that page that is at least $10 from now through 9am tomorrow Saturday morning (when the 5K starts), I will also donate $10 each to the Mockingbird and WaterWheel Foundations.

Yes, you read that right. With a single donation, now, for the first known time in all of Phish history---aka "Phishtory" to those of you who are very popular at social gatherings---you will in effect be donating to three phishy charitable orgs: the Divided Sky, Mockingbird AND WaterWheel Foundations, because your $10 donation will inspire me to donate $10 to WaterWheel and $10 to Mockingbird. THANK YOU!

So please help The Divided Sky Foundation and The Mockingbird Foundation and The WaterWheel Foundation, but especially if you have benefitted at all whatsoever from this Treatise on "the Hose" and "Getting IT" or this parody re-cap that trolled people who take recaps on dot net too seriously and has aged wondrously well or this ChatGPT recap or this examination of the absurdity of rating and ranking Phish shows or this ruthlessly offensive additional bonus troll of people who take show ratings too seriously or this somewhat more serious "rating" of Halloween shows or these setlists or these jamcharts or these song histories.This website may be free to you, but it is not free. THANK YOU! -charlie

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