Support Doug's Battle Against Lymphoma

Doug holds the lantern for his family, his strong, down-dog arms, reaching into the darkness. He is both serious and smiling, his beautiful wife and two children, eyes wide and curious, right there at his side, going into the dark mouth of the unknown. They are a family that goes in together. Their closeness is palpable and Dougie, who can jump full Jersey when he needs to, is the soft kitten lion bear dad love that takes them up the mountain, down the hill, into the well, and well, just about anywhere they want to go. Whether it’s to that band you’ve never heard of at Red Rocks, or college (soon to be x2), Doug has made this life for himself and his family as a writer, an adventure writer specifically, and through that work has shared his fearless experience of the world and the word. It is this adventurous heart and indelible spirit that lets us know that even after his recent diagnosis of lymphoma, Doug will be ok.

He will be ok.

But right now, he needs us to take the lantern and hold it up in the darkness.

He needs us, his friends, his family, his communities (yoga, writing, all things wild) to bring the fucking light.

For an independent writer, and an avid outdoors-er, cancer is not the best on belay. And chemo is not only giving him the badass mohawk mojo that will help him kick the tar out of lymphoma but it’s wearing our guy Dougie down just enough to make it hard to do the things he has done and written about for most of his beautiful life. On top of that, one of his steadiest sources of income was recently dissolved, leaving Doug without that piece of stable income for his family. Really universe? All this right now?

That’s where we come in.

And we come in strong.

Medical bills are starting to pile like the leaves outside our houses, and the chill of worry is blowing around our beloved and we cannot let it touch him. Let’s make it warmer in the heart and hearth and give what we can to support Dougie—the guy who bows humbly to you when he rolls his mat out next to yours in yoga, the guy whose deep yawn towards the end of class remind us to breath and to laugh, the guy who drives like the East coast and loves openly like the West, the guy who makes enchiladas and sends you home with leftovers, the guy who takes the best picture of you at your wedding, the guy who texts you poems because they remind him of the shape of your heart, and the guy who can out swear all of us and makes you swear to do better.