Everything feels apocalyptic these days.

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Red skies last night, apparently a product of residual low clouds and perhaps a little smoke blown in and thrown in for good measure. Everything feels apocalyptic these days.

Last full day of my personal year, and it feels like the news is unrelievedly bad.  The state announced yesterday that it's returning to so-called "crisis-care standards" in hospitals, meaning that there's no room anywhere and if you roll up with a heart attack or injury and they decide you're not a good bet for making it, they'll let you die in favor of someone they deem more worthy of the effort. We all know who that will affect first and worst in this state.

I know I'm supposed to have hope for tomorrow starting off a good new year, but it's hard given what the last two have been. Hard, too, with sales at such a low ebb and us going hard and headlong into winter now. High winds today, which means bitter cold, and the next six months will stay that way. It's a lot to deal with, and the economy is in the tank and so are our sales.

Even so, if you're planning on commissioning gifts for the holidays, DO IT NOW. We're also dealing with the same supply-chain issues as everyone else, and at some point soon, Wings is going to have to get silver and stones to produce holiday inventory, and I'm hearing that the price is already spiking on the metals. More to the point of what customers care about, we also can't guarantee shipping times this year, because see above. But I've posted a ton of Wings's new work lately, and there will be more in the days and weeks to come. If I could sell one of the big works, like one of the belts, maybe I could get us on the drill list for the well that is the only thing that's going to keep this land alive. But I've got way too much to do and too few hours and other resources to do it. 

Anyway, I spent most of yesterday pushing fundraising for two different sets of folks who needed it. [And I know which of you look down on us, and you know what? I don't see you doing that for anyone except your own crew, so shove your colonialism.] I'm still dealing with vaccine fallout, to say nothing of lupus, I've got more folks in need in of help, I've got a ton of offline stuff yet to do, and I have GOT to make some damn sales, so links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the ladders, because see above, and coffee coffee coffee, which we're finding it harder and harder to get locally);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to cover all this staggering outlay somehow and get us through what's left of the year. And right now? I have no way to do it.  But there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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