If you know Hollis Hawthorne and are reading this now for the first time, I am so sorry.

My friend Hollis was in a motorcycle accident in India this past week. She has suffered extreme brain stem injury and is in a coma. Stanford Medical Center has accepted her but the problem now is getting her home. Costs for med-vac-ing her home are about $150K. Her friends, family and burners are doing all that we can.

Details can be found at www.friendsofhollis.blogspot.com/ and helpholligethome.blogspot.com/ --Even if you only have an extra $10, please consider helping out. If you have a lot more, then, that would be wonderful. If you know a pilot with a plane that can handle this, please contact a family member, immediately. You can find contact info on either of those blogs.


(Pictured above, Hollis and I on the back of the Lunch's "art sleigh," Christmas 2006. Hollis is on the left. This is a great memory for me but not so wonderful as Hollis "floating" across the playa doing cartwheels for me at dawn, JuPlaya '06.)