No respite.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

At this elevation, in this environment? Aspen catkins should first begin — just begin — to open in late March to the first half of April.

Instead, they've been opening for five, six weeks already.

The planet is thrashing, trying to survive. Any reasonable society would try to halt her death throes, but we live in one led by the very merchants of death.

And they're going to kill us all if people don't step up and stand up to them.

This has been a terrible year, and it's ending on multiple even more terrible notes. And in the short, immediate term? None of that matters; there's no respite. No respite from death and destruction, no respite from climate collapse, no respite from taxes used against our will to fund colonial genocides. And no respite even now from the need to chase sales, either. It's been such a terrible year, in that regard but also in so many others, and there are . . . what? two days left in which to make up this horrible sales deficit? We've had a half-dozen now since T-Day, but we'll need to sell a lot more between now and year's end, obviously, and since there are exactly two of those days left, we won't even come close to making it. Which sets the stage for a terrible year next year, too. Of course, we haven't brought in anywhere nearly enough sales all year across the board, even before recent developments that require a moral stand of us. It's grim.

Normally, I would've been pre-paying taxes quarterly, but not this year; we haven't had enough sales to do that, and I'm behind on everything else, too, all while my illness worsens seemingly by the day. Until those prepayments are off my desk, I can't relax, can't do anything other than push to get them covered. I really need help. As always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities now are Wings's Flex-Tape, and especially the vacuum, because mine has died a complete and ignominious death, and if I don't vacuum every single day, the dog hair takes over completely); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and there will be much more in the days to come [EIGHT NEW PIECES a few nights ago [one sold], plus two new ones a couple of nights before that]. The way this year has gone, things will still be grim for a good while and the holidays are already here, so please share all of the links. 

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