Something else entirely.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

We've had it all today: rain, both soft and cloudburst-style; sun; clouds of every type; fog; gale-force winds from every direction; sleet; a little snow; even half a rainbow. Snow would be normal for April, but this is something else entirely.

And there's a lot of green, and a full tree of white blossoms, that probably won't look like that tomorrow, because the mercury's already down to 35, and it's supposed to hit 28 or so tonight.

Every day this week has been consumed by things that are not what I'm supposed to be doing. It's been so bad, the hours I've been putting in and the lack of sleep so extreme and therefor my sense of time so off, that I have spent the entire day thinking it's Saturday and wondering how the hell I got so much further behind than I already was. But it's only Wednesday. Even so, I'm falling further behind by the day, and it has to stop.

Which means that I cannot and will not take on anything else until all this is off my desk. Period. I'm sorry, but that includes anyone wanting mutual-aid help who's not willing to post it publicly. I'm no good to anyone if I'm hospitalized or worse, and that's where this is heading if I don't halt it now. Do not send someone to me this week who needs a whole new . . . whatever. I can't do it. They have to join the group and post it there, or wait until next week at the earliest, possibly the week after. Because I'm out of time to get al of this done, my health is in jeopardy, and we still have to bring in sales weekly to break even, which we are not remotely doing now. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [and to whomever sent a bunch of stuff off it that have arrived recently, THANK YOU; there were no purchaser inserts with the items, zip, zero, nada];
• 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 to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been pretty grim.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner. 

A Way of Transition and a Gift of the Sacred

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a powerful work for transitional seasons and spaces, for moments one is searching for the sacred and the way ahead is unclear. It's a vintage-style collar necklace, one wrought in tile form with an extraordinary compound pendant, perfect to symbolize this season, a way of transition and a gift of the sacred.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. It's already April, taxes are due, and we need to get caught up. That begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

I'd rather have the rain.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

That's what came for us today. No rain, unless you count a few dozen widely scattered drops. No, what we got out of it were dangerous gale-force winds.

I'd rather have the rain.

In both senses of the word, actually. Everything's terrible, we're about seven weeks behind where we need to be on sales, I don't know how we're going to make it through this year, and I don't know how I'm going to make it through this week with everything I have to get done and the tax check we're going to have to write. My pain levels are absolutely off the charts, every single day has been nothing but derailments and interruptions, and I am at the end of my fucking tether.

I cannot and will not take on anything else until all this is off my desk. Period. I'm sorry, but that includes anyone wanting mutual-aid help who's not willing to post it publicly. I'm no good to anyone if I'm hospitalized or worse, and that's where this is heading if I don't halt it now. Do not send someone to me this week who needs a whole new . . . whatever. I can't do it. They have to join the group and post it there, or wait until next week at the earliest, possibly the week after. Because I'm out of time to get it done, my health is in jeopardy, and we still have to bring in sales weekly to break even, which we are not remotely doing now. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [and to whomever sent a bunch of stuff off it that arrived today, THANK YOU; there were no purchaser inserts with the items, zip, zero, nada];
• 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 to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been pretty grim.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner. 

Red Willow Spirit: A Conspiracy of Extremes

Photo copyright Wings, 2026;
all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for March's end and April's birth, for a spring season that should share space with winter but feels more like summer now. It's two images from fourteen years ago, linked by a single very recent and remarkably apt work of wearable art, all of them illustrative of this land's and season's penchants for engaging in a conspiracy of extremes.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. It's the last day of March, taxes due, and we need to get caught up. That begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.          

It's here.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026;
all rights reserved.

It's here, a day early. Which completely effed up our whole schedule today, but the UPS driver was kind enough to push it up the slope and leave it outside the kitchen door.

It's very small [which is not surprising, given how cheap it was, but it's what we could afford]. Actually, the dead one was small, but not this small; we only have about a 31" space, and that one was 28". This one is 20", and it's also much, much shorter, maybe a foot higher than the back of the stove. No bells and whistles, but after the problems the so-called ice-maker [leak-maker, more like] caused in our old Whirlpool one, neither of us cares.

The bigger problem today was the physical labor involved, because we had to haul the old one out, and then get this one in the door and into its spot. I'm going to be good for absolutely nothing for the rest of the week, because the way my pain levels have been lately, adding this nonsense onto it is going to flatten me. [And today was also chemo day, but whatever. I'm having to accept the fact that I'm probably never going to feel actually good again; those days are gone.]

Anyway, at least we have a working fridge.  And we got out of it without having to throw out much in the way of damaged food. Now I just need to figure out how to get the old one hauled way. the hell of it is, it still works . . . sort of.  Freezer compartment works great. the problem seems to be within the recirculating air vents, but we can't fix it; it would cost more than the old one was worth to fix it, and it's just been one problem after another from jump anyway. We just need it gone.

And I need to get my own work done, and get these stupid taxes off my desk. Needless to say, the last week has made it almost impossible to do anything on them, and today? You're joking, right? So I'm going to try to pull an all-nighter tonight to work on them, but given my fatigue levels and general lack of sleep lately, that might not be doable.

The wind and pollen aren't helping with everything else, either. I've been working flat out all last week, the weekend, and now into the rest of this week, and I'll be doing it in the middle of this god-awful flare, which means that I'll have no time [or energy, or functionality] for anything else until all this is off my desk. Period. I'm sorry, but that includes anyone wanting mutual-aid help who's not willing to post it publicly. I'm no good to anyone if I'm hospitalized or worse, and that's where this is heading if I don't halt it now. Because the last five, six months have been this way, nonstop, and I'm still not caught up on housework, taxes, OR sales. Which is not good, because we still have to bring in sales weekly to break even. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [and to whomever sent a bunch of stuff off it that arrived today, THANK YOU; there were no purchaser inserts with the items, zip, zero, nada];
• 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 to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been pretty grim.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner. 

Monday Photo Meditation: Standing Strong In the Hard Season

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for these difficult days when even the weather doesn't know what it's supposed to do. It's an image from 14 years ago almost to the very day, when this time of year brought us conditions both more ordinary and still extreme, and with them, lessons on the meaning of standing strong in the hard season.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. It's the end of March, taxes due, and we need to get caught up. That begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.         

Unrecognizeable now.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

All haze; no snow. On March 29th.

It's a terrifying sight. It shouldn't look like this before July at the earliest, and even then, the haze would be there only if there's a nearby wildfire.

Which, of course, there are — several of them in the broader region. Our topsoil is destroyed; the soil here is like talc now. The winds are kicking up again, and if the weather changes this week as the forecast says it will? Those pear blossoms will be dead, and so will any chance of pears this fall. The same will hold for a lot of leaves and other plant life.

Everything here is unrecognizeable now.

The wind and pollen aren't helping with everything else, either. I've been working flat out all weekend and it will be the same into the workweek, and I'll be doing it in the middle of this god-awful flare, which means that I'll have no time [or energy, or functionality] for anything else until all this is off my desk. Period. I'm sorry, but that includes anyone wanting mutual-aid help who's not willing to post it publicly. I'm no good to anyone if I'm hospitalized or worse, and that's where this is heading if I don't halt it now. Because the last five, six months have been this way, nonstop, and I'm still not caught up on housework, taxes, OR sales. Which is not good, because we still have to bring in sales weekly to break even. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [and to whomever sent a bunch of stuff off it that arrived today, THANK YOU; there were no purchaser inserts with the items, zip, zero, nada];
• 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 to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been pretty grim.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.