A little branch of hope.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

That's the biggest of the three willows by the pond. It's got some leaves all through the branches , as does the middle one, but they both have a lot of bare branches, too. The third, smallest willow? Al the upper branches are dead. The same is true for the four on the north side.

Yesterday, I took this: a new offshoot on the largest, way down on the trunk maybe three feet from the ground — a little branch of hope. There's one on the other side, more a little higher. The middle tree has some, and even the mostly-dead smaller one has a bunch of new fronds now coming out at the notch. The smallest of the four north ones is the same, although I can't tell about the other three from a distance. I do know that one of the two seemingly-dead elms by the road has finally leafed on a few branches, courtesy of the recent rains. None yesterday, likely none today, but per the forecast, tomorrow is supposed to inaugurate a more traditional monsoonal pattern every single day for the next 15 days, at least.

We have a very small window in which to save these lands.

Speaking of smal windows, closing and closed ones, actually, in the news, everything is terrible, far worse for Native people than for anyone else, and it's going to get much worse before the year is out. This court (I refuse to capitalize that illegitimate Konklave of Klan) is hell-bent on outright genocide again, trying to finish the filthy work of the many Indian Killers who came before them. All in a time when too many people already need help just for day-to-day survival. And nothing changes; we need to make sales consistently, always. Wings' newest cuff posted Sunday night and it's incredible, and you should click through to see it from all angles, here. The new ring went up Monday night; you can see it here (and it is, apparently, still available). And the two new pairs of hoop earrings might be available as early as this evening.

Meanwhile, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the other ladder, the Thermacell lanterns [the flies are already out, so the mosquitoes won't be far behind], and the Gorilla tape);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

We're still hoping to put aside enough for a new well when the ground thaws enough to drill in the spring, too, Nah, we've given up on the well. No one's available to drill before the latter half of summer, and the tax burden means we would never be able to afford it anyway. But it's perhaps even more of a good time to make a purchase, because Uncle Sam is a vindictive colonizer, and my current stress levels about paying it all are off the charts. And there's lots of fabulous work, so please share all of the links. 

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