Strange weather.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

That was late this afternoon. Strange weather; by an hour thereafter, it felt like the shift in weather that comes before the first snow of the season. It's not cold enough for that down here, of course, but fi they're right about the rains to come, then the peaks will get some white stuff.

Today was rough. Chemo day, which is more than enough, but also, just everything so completely fucked up. The one potential good thing that came out of it is that I may have found a replacement doc, but that depends on whether she's taking new patients. She's also in Los Alamos, which means a drive for every visit, which meand wiping me out for the week every time, but it is what it is.

Maybe. 

For now, though, I feel like absolute hell. And I can't be this sick. I mean, I can't. I've got too much to do every damn day as it is. And I've still got to bring in a lot more sales through the end of the year. This year has been hellishly expensive already, and we've also got a couple of other big-ticket things to take care of this month, and that only happens if we make some sales now. And we can still use help with shares, testimonials, wishlist stuff I can't get to yet, etc. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [I'll be adding some new items soon, things we could really use but that I can't justify spending money on right now, like some sheets and towels];
• 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, a year that, so far, has been very 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: Fall In Full Leaf

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for the last full day of official summer, and for the conditions changing around us in real time now. It's an image that dates back only days shy of six full years, to October 5th, 2020, and to one a view of already-altered patterns in color, a time when fall in full leaf no longer holds it usual meaning here.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and 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.

What's coming.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

The colors are off, at least as they render here; too much low light coming into the studio, washing out the bluer shades. But this is [part of] what's coming, earring pairs here, and they're all amazing: blue lace agate; seraphinite; porcelain jasper; old and spectacular beautiful tiger's eye; what might be tree agate, or a decidedly nonorbicular pair of ocean jasper cabs; #8 turquoise; Hubei turquoise; Brazilian turquoise; and 3 extraordinary pairs of Hubei turquoise from, obviously, a very different deposit. He also has the chiastolite link bracelet still in the works, several gemstone-bead items, and a collection of alterations/repairs for a friend as well as a few commission in the early design stages.

There are just never enough hours in the day. Not for him; not for me. 

I had thought I might feel a bit better today, but no. Especially not in the last hour or so; I'm suddenly feeling spectacularly lousy, with nothing triggering it. And the worst part is that there's nothing I can do about it, now that our doctor's office closed without any notice Friday, and we had to find out when we drove across town for our appointments. 

And I can't be this sick. I mean, I can't. I've got too much to do every damn day as it is. And I've still got to bring in a lot more sales through the end of the year. This year has been hellishly expensive already, and we've also got a couple of other big-ticket things to take care of this month, and that only happens if we make some sales now. And we can still use help with shares, testimonials, wishlist stuff I can't get to yet, etc. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [I'll be adding some new items soon, things we could really use but that I can't justify spending money on right now, like some sheets and towels];
• 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, a year that, so far, has been very 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.

Fall's Fire and Rain Are Medicine

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for our recent days of rain on the petals, and for those forecast to come. It's a pair of earrings from Wings's recently revived series of old-style loops, this pair a perfect transition from summer to autumn, and a reminder that fall's fire and rain are medicine.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and 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 done.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

I promised I'd have it as soon as it was done. It's done. He finished it this afternoon. This is a heavier-gauge band, and it feels very traditional; the stampwork is also a throwback, old-school imagery common in the so-called Fred Harvey era.  The stones are Damele [center]; Blackjack turquoise, which is a type that's basically all boulder/ribbon turquoise [right]; and Black Bridge variscite, which, like Persian turquoise, comes from Iran [left]. Once I get it up on the site, the side and end views will be visible, too, but for now, this'll have to do.

Yeah, I know, everything's always late. Including the last round of daily work from last night, which is now and shared, but last night was the first time ever — literally EVER — that I did not finish all of those daily tasks. And I didn't because I couldn't. After recent weeks, I was so ill by last night that my body simply would not cooperate; neither would my brain. For the first time all week, I went to bed sometime after 12:30, instead of at 3 AM, because I could not do anything at all. I barely made it upstairs, and I didn't so much fall asleep as simply collapse.

It could be an exceptionally bad autoimmune exacerbation. I mean, given the pace I've had to keep and the stresses I've been forced to carry daily this summer, it wouldn't be a surprise. But this feels different. There is something else underlying this, something wrong, and since our medical practice has apparently abandoned us three weeks early, there's not a thing I can do about it. In terms of "wrong," it could be simple disease progression, which Spirit knows is bad enough on its own. Aside from the pain and the joint and connective-tissue degeneration, at some point, it will begin to affect my organs. [LOL; "at some point." I know it already has. It just hasn't shut anything down yet.] it also put me at heightened risk for certain nastier things, specific types of cancer and other conditions that are similarly unpleasant, and can be fatal entirely independently of the organ damage and whatever else from the autoimmune diseases. My fatigue levels are epic right now; it's like having mono along with the flu and pneumonia and probably COVID too. It's the kind of fatigue I've always heard cancer patients describe when they're at their lowest ebb, and I can't function this way.

And I can't be this sick. I mean, I can't. I've got too much to do every damn day as it is. And I've still got to bring in a lot more sales through the end of the year. This year has been hellishly expensive already, and we've also got a couple of other big-ticket things to take care of this month, and that only happens if we make some sales now. And we can still use help with shares, testimonials, wishlist stuff I can't get to yet, etc. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [I'll be adding some new items soon, things we could really use but that I can't justify spending money on right now, like some sheets and towels];
• 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, a year that, so far, has been very 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.

The Work of Regeneration, of Renewal and Rebirth

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the medicine we once associated here with summer, now arrived in fall to revive our world. It's a pair of traditional loop earrings strung with turquoise and silver and more, a perfect tribute to the cycles and the work of regeneration, of renewal and rebirth, that are in effect now.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and 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.

In other words . . . .

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

New earrings pairs. these are spectacular, and he's planning on starting on them, for building up holiday inventory, this weekend. He has several other turquoise cab pairs, too, and more on the way, plus pairs in lots of other gemstones.

I should have the new 3-stone green cuff tomorrow [heavy, very old school]. There's also a simple wrapped copper cuff that's already done, but today's been so awful there's been no time.

Apparently it wasn't enough that we're losing both our doctor, for the second time in two years, AND the whole medical practice. We had our final appointments this morning, and I needed to go over a bunch of issues for both of us, order our patient files [and pay through the nose for them no doubt], and find out whether I needed labs once more before they shut down completely. I've acquired some troubling new symptoms n recent months, and Id intended to go over them over a period of time with our doc's successor . . . except now there is no successor, and no practice. And so we got up early today, raced around getting things done and prepped [okay, hobbled; my left knee has been subluxed so badly that I can't straighten it out and I can't put weight on it without falling]. We get there . . . and thye're closed.  No warning, no message, no call or text or e-mail. Somebody had to come in to tape the notice to the door but no one could be bothered . . . ? I'm assuming, at this late date, that that means that we will not GET a final appointment now. So I'm left with no one in the county who can treat my illness, and no way to prep for the long haul.

In other words, I'm fucked.

And I am so fucking tired and discouraged that I can't even summon the energy to get mad like I have a right to be. Everything is shit, and the people who could actually fix any of it are too busy cowering on the one hand and selling us out on the other, and I just don't have any hope for any of it anymore. I've always known that no one is coming to save us, but I never thought most people would be so stupidly nihilist as to think all this is fine. But they are.

And I've still got to bring in a lot more sales through the end of the year. This year has been hellishly expensive already, and we've also got a couple of other big-ticket things to take care of this month, and that only happens if we make some sales now. And we can still use help with shares, testimonials, wishlist stuff I can't get to yet, etc. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [I'll be adding some new items soon, things we could really use but that I can't justify spending money on right now, like some sheets and towels];
• 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, a year that, so far, has been very 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.