A day for speed and power. No dogs, but new work going up shortly. Sales very much needed, and subscribers and shares, too.

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I need her strength and power with me today, and maybe some of her speed, too. Hopefully she'll show up again, like she has the last couple of days.

So the weather people made a liar out of me yesterday, almost immediately. Our forecast changed with amazing speed, calling for rain tomorrow and snow on Wednesday, although now they're saying the snow will hit late in the day tomorrow instead. We'll see. Either way, we have a ton of stuff that we have to get done today just in case, which means that once I'm offline here shortly, I'll probably be offline for most of the day, maybe even until evening.And as I said yesterday, still no sign of the dogs anywhere (nor any sign of anything horrible, so we still have a little hope, but we'll have to keep looking).

I will, I hope, be able to get one more set of posts up before I have to go do other kinds of work. Wings spent the weekend in the studio, and we have a new collection coils to show for it. Those will be going up shortly. I also hope I can get one other post written, although doing it justice is no sure thing on this kind of cramped timetable, so we'll see. I have very little time before I have to get moving, and I need to get on it, so the rest is cut-and-paste. 

Spirit knows we need sales now, and desperately. Repairs on both vehicles are paid, as well as a bunch of other stuff that needed to be paid now, and we squeezed out a little to help his clan brother out with heat. But the tax bill is going to haunt us for a very long time to come, to say nothing of the five figures' worth of medical bills remaining, and I have to send in something substantial on the latter, and soon. There's more medical stuff in the offing, too. I am exhausted, physically, mentally, and every other way, with the rapid-fire weather changes playing hell with my autoimmune disease and with my breathing issues (the cold is back morning and night, and so is my shortness of breath, in a very big way). 

I've been saying that I don't see a way to claw us out of this hole. I still don't. And it's hard to think when illness fogs your brain as badly as it does mine. There's nothing I can do right now except what I've done my whole life, which it just to keep putting one foot in front of the other. I have to make some sales, I have to find a way to bring in major amounts right now, and I don't know how, but I've got to get work trying. Wings has new work out, six brand-new pairs of earrings, and they're fabulous. It would be a small start.

We need sales, badly. Never moreso, frankly. What follows are links that are a means of helping a little bit. I am sick, body, mind, heart, and spirit, and there's no room for anything else:

• 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).

Please share the links. We're now officially into holiday order season, because commissions take time, so if you're planning on holiday gifts, please keep Wings's work in mind. And given what we're up against, we won't turn away donations, either, because we simply can't afford it.

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