Messengers. Sales, subscribers, and shares all needed.

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A meessenger today: apparently an immature red-naped sapsucker. They are supposed to appear in this region only during fall migration, but as far as Wings and I are aware, this is the first time one has ever put in appearance here. He's been very busy on the elm.

We had a couple of other messengers since he arrived this morning, too — the return of our solitary monarch after a couple of weeks' absence, plus the red-tailed pair circling overhead on the currents. It feels like a series of good omens; given what the summer has been like here to say nothing of the last couple of weeks for me health-wise), we can only hope so. I am not, as it happens, appreciably better — breathing is difficult, and puts me at a low ebb in all sorts of ways — and so the rest is cut-and-paste.


There are a lot of ways to help out. First, obviously, is sales; purchases of Wings's work (and/or work by the other artists whose art we carry) is always the first option, and it was the baseline for the construction in the first place. Second is subscribing to my Patreon page, which gets updated regularly with really cool imagery and a good amount of really good writing; if you now for September, you won't be billed until October 1st. Below there's also a link for "coffee," which allows folks to make small donations, and a couple of wishlists for keeping the animals in kibble and filling out needs around the house. In the middle is the link to Wings's PayPal account, and no, I won't turn away any donations, because we have to get this done and I have to have some peace of mind over it because I have none over my own survival these days). The only fundraising we'll be doing is right here; nowhere else. So here are all the links; please share them around, and if you are able to purchase, subscribe, donate, whatever, we'd be profoundly grateful:

• My new Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds);
• Wings's site, for sales, with new items posted;
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to all of our medical bills, which continue to mount);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of animal and household stuff;
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. There are new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need to replace (either because the RV ruined it or because we gave it away when we had to downsize).

That all I've got. I'm going to be back under the gun for the next several weeks. Thanks to everyone in advance. 

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