We take our beauty where we find it.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

Bad angle, but beautiful sky. Not a healthy one, but cool to look at, anyway. None of that is actual cloud; it's all diffuse contrails, blown apart, and the gray band at the bottom is the inversion layer from local smoke in the cold. 

Because we had real cold this morning, an actual hard freeze, complete with frost on the surfaces and crunchy grass. Didn't last long, but it was there.

The world is terrible. We take our beauty where we find it.

We have to have something to relieve the bleakness of everything outside our boundaries. it's the only way to stay motivated to do the work, and as always, there's work to do. A lot of it. More than ever, because no one in authority or control is going to do it; that much is evident from last week's disastrous [but entirely predictable] election results, and the utter craven cowardice of the Dems. Locals are becoming forcibly unhoused at record rates, and there are six months of winter yet to come. One of the members of our new mutual-aid group has her own outreach effort aimed at unhoused local folks [their numbers growing literally by the day] with pets who need to survive the winter.  Here's that group's Amazon wishlist; go do some good in a world that's otherwise shit by buying some of the items on it that will keep our most vulnerable, people and animals both, alive for another winter. WHAT THEY NEED MOST:  SOCKS, SLEEPING BAG SETS, MYLAR BLANKETS. The most expensive item is 10 sleeping bags for $136; the pup tents are $27 each, and folks NEED those in this weather. The ground becomes pure ice.  The address it goes to will take care of it, so go buy some things for folks who have been less lucky this year; there's stuff at every price point.

And of course, there's more than enough that I need to get done around here. I'm already putting in 12- to 16-hour days every day, 7 days a week, because the work won't wait, and for us, being able to help anyone else starts with us making sales, of course. And as I also said, I'm also redoing what I highlight here. I'm just going to highlight a few items here each day. Today's feature is a photo, and fortunately, I have exactly the pieces to match its shirred blue skies and golden web of light — one of Wings's newest cuff bracelets, and a brand-new pair of earrings to go with it:

• "Sacred Spring," sterling silver and an incredible freeform focal of Cripple Creek turquoise atop a hammered solid silver band, here; and
• "Sacred Waters, Sacred Sky," sterling silver and smaller, similarly-shaped freeform Cripple Creek turquoise cabs accented with hand-made ingot drops, here.

There's more on the way very soon; he's got something like four more cuffs, a couple of pendants, several new pairs of earrings [a long, elegant ribbon turquoise pair possibly as early as tomorrow, as well as two of the pendants, one ultra-high-grade black-web Kingman and the other a fabulous azurite-in-malachite shield], and eventually all the new coils he'll need for holiday inventory. 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 next year, 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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