A sign. Of what? Don't know yet.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

Of course, my hands are so slow anymore I couldn't shift the focus in time. But that bird? That's a bald eagle. He came to visit this morning, in company with a harrier, two dueling ravens, and one of the local red-tails, all of them screeching at each other.

Eagle, of course, is incredibly fast, and by the time I got out there, he was already vanishing into the mountains. But I got a good full view of him, white head and tail and all [a fully mature eagle] circling right over our east field, even if I couldn't get a decent shot.

It seems like a gift, but also a sign. Of what? Don't know yet. It did bring us a little snow [graupel, but still]. And Spirit knows there's a lot of work to do, and we all what tomorrow is, of course.

Speaking of the work part, that brings me to my latest thing locally. Today's weather is welcome in the extreme, but it also means that things are going to become urgent, emergent, very fast for our local houseless folks, and for those who are at risk of losing their homes, unable to afford to the keep the heat and lights on, and so on [and on and on and on and on and . . .] . As I said yesterday, we have both given up entirely on the toxic, poisoned colonial politics of this country, and we're turning our efforts daily toward finding actual, concrete ways to help folks. Y'all can help, too:  a GFM for a local family we know [his grandmother and aunt supply the beads y'all love in Wings's work, and despite what it says about Phoenix, he's coming home now] that needs a lot of help, here; and an Amazon wishlist for a group I was invited to join yesterday that does outreach to local houseless folks with pets, gearing up for winter with survival supplies, here. No amount of election nonsense is going to help these folks, but WE CAN, so go give.

And of course, there's more than enough that I need to get done around here. It starts with sales, of course. And as I also said, I'm also redoing what I highlight here. Wings has SO MUCH NEW WORK that I can't keep up with it all, and I imagine listing it all is a bit overwhelming, so I'm just going to highlight a few items each day. Today's feature was a wide solid silver cuff, so here are the other five such cuffs in current inventory [the sixth is the feature, and not included here]:

• "Light Music," big, bold, old-style, DEEP freehand scorework, here; 
• "Following the Sun," more old-style freehand stampwork, cutwork, repoussé, here; 
• "Love and Wisdom," Art Deco stampwork and freehand texturization, here;
• "Flight of the Star Herd," a millwork and overlay tribute to my paint horse, here; and
•  "Light Through Red Willows," also all fabulous freehand work; lighter weigh, here.

There's more on the way very soon. And I need to sell them all, because I still need to make sales weekly for us to catch up on the year and cover all the stuff still in the pipeline that needs covering [roof, more medical, etc.]. So: GO BUY! Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priority is the liquid soaps and Amazon cards, probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one already far worse than the last, we really need to get what's left of 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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