Beautiful medicine.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Just look at that beautiful medicine. Wings brought it home with him this morning. I put a couple small sprigs on top of the woodstove, and the whole house smells heavenly now.

And I feel better than I have all day.

Smudging has actually been proven, under controlled conditions as part of a scientific study, to help not only with stress but with things like fatigue and pain management. Of course, it was conducted in Europe [many years ago now], so American medicine refuses to acknowledge it.

Unfortunately, something distracted me in the middle of taking my meds this morning [dogs or husband; I couldn't tell you now which], and I got the first one into me, but not the second. The second is the pain medication, which has to wait for the first, so there's a gap of a few minutes between, and whatever called me away, I thought I'd taken it, and discovered a little while ago that I hadn't. Which explains why I've felt even worse today than I have been since Thursday or so. yes, I took it [late], and it's finally kicking in a little, but I'm grateful for the cedar, too.

But that means that I'm way behind now, even more than I already was, and there's no time for that; the holiday creative season effectively begins on October first, and we will both be running 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, until the end of the year. He also has to finish the last half-dozen or so commissions that are in the works before he can turn his attention to cranking out holiday inventory in any real way. And we need to bring in sales now, both to cover his work building new inventory and simply to meet all the costs of this stupidly expensive year [on top of last year being the same]. If we could just continue to make regular weekly sales, we'd be fine . . . but we need to make those sales now, and so far, that's not happening. There's a lot of gorgeous new work up, but I've got to sell it for it to make any difference. This kind of stress is also not helping my health. I need that to change now, and fast. And to that end, links are here [with the LaminaSaver back on the wishlist, because Miika goes through it at a rapid clip]:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priority at the moment is more of the LaminaSaver for Miika];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

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