Fall hit the peaks yesterday. Time is short, and resources shorter. Sales, subscribers, and shares all needed now.

Photo copyright Aji, 2018; all rights reserved.

The peaks began turning yesterday. It's still earlier than normal, but the real oddity is that they've begun turning later than our trees down here at their feet. It's getting down into the forties overnight here, but it's much colder up there, so you'd expect the foliage to have begun changing well before us. The difference is that our monsoon season, such as it was, deposited almost all of the rains on the peaks, with virtually none down here, and so our foliage's headlong flight toward dormancy was hastened by drought. Down here? It began the first week of July this year, what is, as far as anyone knows, an all-time record.

This weekend is already fraught, and I'm already way behind. That's nothing new — my health and medical issues guarantee that — but the days are getting shorter fast, and the medical bills and other expenses keep piling up hard and fast. And since I necessarily bear most of that psychological burden, all it does is raise my fatigue to an unholy level, and my breathing issues, too. Anyway, the whole thing wears me out physically, mentally, and every other way, so the rest is cut-and-paste.

There are a lot of ways to help out. First, obviously, is sales; purchases of Wings's work (and/or work by the other artists whose art we carry) is always the first option, and it was the baseline for the construction in the first place. [And next week will be their last, most likely, because he don't have the cash to pay them beyond that for the labor — and right now, it's virtually all labor.] Second is subscribing to my Patreon page, which gets updated regularly with really cool imagery and a good amount of really good writing; if you now for September, you won't be billed until October 1st. Below there's also a link for "coffee," which allows folks to make small donations, and a couple of wishlists for keeping the animals in kibble and filling out needs around the house. In the middle is the link to Wings's PayPal account, and no, I won't turn away any donations, because we have to get this done and I have to have some peace of mind over it because I have none over my own survival these days). The only fundraising we'll be doing is right here; nowhere else. So here are all the links; please share them around, and if you are able to purchase, subscribe, donate, whatever, we'd be profoundly grateful:

• My new Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds);
• Wings's site, for sales, with new items posted;
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to all of our medical bills, which continue to mount);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of animal and household stuff;
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. There are new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need to replace (either because the RV ruined it or because we gave it away when we had to downsize).

That all I've got. I'm going to be back under the gun for the next several weeks. Thanks to everyone in advance. 

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