Winter is here. Help save someone else's home. Also, sales/subscribers/shares very much needed for us, too.

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Winter is here. That was yesterday morning. Most of what was on the slopes has melted by now, but the peaks still have snow, a big change from this time last year. It was 26 at dawn today, but yesterday was brutal — a bitter northeast wind howled pretty much all day long, and going outside was awful. It was also a reminder of just how much things have changed for me, because I could barely catch my breath in it.

First off, a reminder, if you haven't already: Cherie and her family need help saving their house. Go share her GoFundMe page here, and kick in if you can. She's got a long way to go and very little time; they've raised less than $2K, and they need $6K by next week to retain the lawyer. I know everyone's obsessed with the election, but the candidates are raising money hand over fist now, and diverting some of that to helping a family save their home would do some actual, measurable good in this world, instead of paying for one more damn TV ad that absolutely no one will see because we all tune them out anyway.

For us, it's going to be yet another heavy work day. Too much to do; too little time, and the rest is cut-and-paste. As I said yesterday, I also have more medical stuff upcoming, the kind that involves a referral elsewhere and cash on the barrelhead. We also have to make some steady sales. Winter is coming for us, too, and while we're heading into the season that normally keeps us going for months out of the year, we know we can't rely on it this year. 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, plus a new 7-piece collection of coils that dropped yesterday (six remain available for purchase). 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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