Rose quartz sky.

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It's a rose quartz sky.

That's actually not uncommon now, pale pink, dusky rose, lavender, lilac. In the east. It's a product of the sunset reflecting off a perfectly clear eastern sky at this altitude in mid- to late fall and early winter, and it's both unusual and beautiful.

One of the natural world's small compensations for a day spent out of it.

Errands today, including medical stuff. At my last two appointments, my blood pressure had dropped to my normal low levels [normal for me has always been around 100/60, 100/70, and I was back to 100/60]. Today it was high normal for anyone else, which is very high for me, which is clearly a measure of the amount of stress I've been under, and will be for the foreseeable. It's also a product of too little sleep, and last week was as bad for that as it was for everything else, partly illness progression, but also, yes, partly the absurd stress levels I'm having to operate under right now.

So I clearly need to fix that. How I do that before January is beyond me, given what this season is like in terms of work, and also given how far behind we are on sales thanks to this disastrous year. There is so much new work, and there will soon be a lot more that's newer still. Trouble is, after this god-awful year, we need to make a sale a day now, on average, and we're nowhere near that.

The last two years have all but killed us financially, and I need to get us caught up to make it through the end of the year. Among that new work is the pair of earrings I posted here the other day, which you can find here; the necklace I posted here yesterday has a whole new bail, and I'm planning to get it up on the site yet tonight. But whatever else, we [which means I] have got to change this trajectory, and fast. 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 [daily now, really] 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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