Last year was a warning.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

Look between the trees: You should be able to see the mountain slopes. Instead, it's a dirty yellow-gray haze. The smoke pall is everywhere.

And we're the lucky ones. What's happening on Maui right this second? That's what colonialism has planned for all of us eventually. Last year was a warning, and nobody with the authority to do anything about it has heeded it in the slightest.

And what doesn't kill us by climate collapse, they're determined to do by pandemic. I'm most resigned to being largely housebound, but every now and then, it just enrages me that because people are so goddamned selfish and greedy and willing to sacrifice us, I can't do anything public anymore.

I'm in the second week of this new protocol, and it has set back all the progress I'd made on connective tissue resilience and joint pain. It's also just made me feel like unadulterated crap generally, but I can't afford to take any time away from the all-out push for sales now, so here we are. Exactly two over the course of the summer so far, while the expenses and demands on our resources continue to mount, and nothing's working. Two sales over two months isn't enough to support us with the most basic expenses, never mind anyone or anything else, and I don't know what to do anymore. I have to bring in sales; that's non-negotiable. But nobody's buying. I need help.

The other day I posted Wings's newest two works, here, both at lower price points than is usual for him. I also posted his newest gemstone-bead trio a week ago, here. He's got new earrings in the works, too. Sales have been terribly slow all year, and now we are quite literally at the point of not being able to make it, never mind the dental stuff (he's unilaterally decided to push that back yet again). I don't have any way to solve that outside of making sales, so I'm begging folks, please: All the links are listed below (with new health-related priorities on the wishlist), so please share:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (new priorities: one case of O2 cannulas, because I'm almost out, and one case of saline, because I'm newly allergic to my old one and I can almost never find this brand locally); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and things are grim here, so please share all of the links. 

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