Charity Archive

If you don’t visit any other place in Second Life this month (and perhaps even this year), make it a point to visit the Better World Island. It’s fair to say that you will not return from your visit the same person you were when you started it.
The island is quite large and comprises a [...]

Friends of the Urban Forest

Here’s a quick one for you. I’m a few days late, but last Sunday was Earth Day, and one good way to celebrate Earth Day is to plant a tree.
However, not all of us have the ability or the resources to plant a tree. We would love it if someone would plant one for us. [...]

Ahhh, to be young again! You may not know this, but I once raced motorcycles, almost making a name for myself on the professional circuit with my Norton – as a gentleman racer, of course.
So you can imagine my excitement when I discovered that not only can I get a free motorcycle in Second Life, [...]

The TruCor “Beach Cat” will make it’s SL debut at the Nantucket Yacht Club on Sunday, March 18th at 7 pm SLT. All proceeds from the event will be donated to medical research in fond memory of SL resident and our friend and fellow sailor Djduerer Zou. The event is jointly sponsored by Kazenojin Seiringu, [...]

Midnight City

I visited Midnight City on the recomendation of one of my readers. That person didn’t say much, just that I would like it. So I went there and found, oh dear, a mall? (One has to think of my dear Sherpa’s pithy observations about malls: “all of the functionality and none of the charm of [...]

Support For Healing Needs Help

Support For Healing is in financial trouble. The island may not survive. They need donations. This posting tells you how to donate with PayPal from RL. Is Second Life, visit an Avatarian site or pay Taras Balderdash directly and he’ll get the Lindens to them. This island is a wonderful place and deserves to survive. [...]

This may be one of Sherpa’s favorite places in SL. In fact, this may be one of Sherpa’s favorite places anywhere. It’s the only place I’ve ever come to in SL when I needed a break from my real life, and I expect to return again and again.
Why? Because it really is a place of [...]

Avatarian Monastery

I first came across the Avatarians by random chance: I found an Oracle. An Oracle? Yes. I clicked and donated a small sum and was given a casting from the Yi Jing (I Ching). Mine was:

Influence in the toes.
You are preparing for a big step.
Don’t show your hand yet.

I searched some and found an Avatarian [...]