Little gifts.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

This morning's light was breathtaking. That phenomenon, with the visible rays in the haze across the mountains, occurs almost exclusively in fall here, and within that, almost exclusively in October. It's one of the many little gifts of this month that are fleeting, but significant.

And today, I needed to be grateful for those gifts where I could find them, because the day itself has been a nightmare. I can't keep this up; I have GOT to have time for my work, and everyone's else's nonsense cannot keep getting in the way of that now. I was already pulling 16-hour days 7 days a week; t's already worse just over this past week. And given that I have a partially-dislocated left hip and knee and right hand, and constant cramping in my leg, foot, and hand as a result [lupus, it's all lupus], I've got to reduce the amount of time on my feet right now fairly drastically.

I'm fucking going on strike tomorrow. I don't care who needs what. My work comes first.

Because we're already out of pocket $2K on this week, thanks to materials and labor, and nothing gets paid if I can't do my work, because that's what takes his work from the studio to someone else. I just need us to have a good fall and winter sales-wise, now. Two years in a row, now, all these hellish expenses we could neither predict nor prevent, and certainly couldn't ignore, and we're going to be paying for a lot of them for the foreseeable. So right now, we need to make up for a lot of that over these three months, in part because we have a very big tax prepayment due before the end of the year. If we could just continue to make regular weekly sales, we'd be fine . . . but we need to make those sales now; for example, this week, I need bring in another ~$2,000+ to cover the guys' repair work and materials. 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, and today's been pretty miserable on that front [the steroid injection is actually helping my joints across the board, but the massive headache is now on its fifth sixth day and counting]. I need to find a way to change all of that now, and fast. And to that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here;
• 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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