A phenomenal thing.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

Sometimes the light here is a phenomenal thing. It doesn't always lend itself well to compositionally great photographs, but it's incredible all the same. 

Those clouds have all broken apart now, adrift in little covert feathers instead of giant plumes. But they're going to be gathering together again soon; the forecast is for two inches of snow over the next 48 hours, starting sometime tomorrow.

If it happens, that really will be a phenomenal thing now.

Which brings me to my latest thing locally. However badly needed, the snow 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. I will have three new works sometime today, I hope: a cuff, a pendant, and a pair of earrings, the first solid silver, the other two set with tiger iron. But meanwhile, today's feature is pair solid sterling silver earrings in a clearly recognizeable motif [and an equally obvious message]. So for today, one more thing in plain silver, but not earrings; this is a pin that I somehow feel compelled to post today, maybe because it has its own message, too :

• "Perfect Aim," a long, elegant lapel pin, saw-cut freehand out of the Deco-ish heavy-gauge pattern wire, with a beautifully cut tip; 4.5" long, and suitable for jackets, coats, shawls, etc, 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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