That day again.

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Look at that beautiful view. Some days, it's so gorgeous that you can't help but weep. The human mind and spirit are not designed to take in such vast beauty neutrally.

So it's that day again. The one I dread every year. It's an abomination that she could not live to see this kind of beauty, while literal Nazis are walking around openly killing people. And if you think that's hyperbole, I invite you to investigate what the legal term is for assassinating innocent civilians, of this nation-state or any other. But I don't debate bad-faith actors, and I certainly wouldn't waste time on it today of all days. It's been thirty-two years this afternoon, and it still feels like yesterday.

Besides, I have time for nothing extra now anyway, and that includes getting sucked back into a spiral of grief. We're both slammed, and it will be that way every day until the end of the year, because this is that season. I also have a thousand and one other things to do to keep everything going. My illness is still progressing, I've had this headache for two weeks straight and almost no sleep all week, which only makes all of it worse. And I have GOT to bring in some sales today, tonight, tomorrow. And nothing I do is working

We laid off the guys this morning. In truth, I think they might've been relieved; none of us is getting any younger, and it's hard work. It's also supposed to rain all week, and I don't imagine they were looking forward to that. But it's not just the labor costs for the repairs; I've got to find a way to cover everything else, because this year has just wiped us out.

There's a lot of gorgeous new work up, but I've got to sell it for it to make any difference [and those two pairs of loop earrings are finished, but I still have not been able to make time to write the descriptions; $275 each + s/h/i; he also has a new gemstone-bead necklace, one that will be more expensive than most, because of the turquoise in it, but it's fabulous]. But we've 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 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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