Christmas trees and vicious winds. New work by Wings, and sales badly needed.

Photo copyright Aji, 2018; all rights reserved.

Our tree, with one of our few remaining old ornaments on it. There is something about a lit Christmas tree at night, decorated with glass ornaments and brilliantly-colored lights, that is so beautiful that it makes me weep. 

I smashed into the proverbial wall last night. Autoimmune, cardiorespiratory, all of it. I think I'm fighting a bug — I've been out around other people a lot more than usual these last couple of weeks, and it seems like everyone in town is sick right now — plus I'm completely run down. This hasn't been burning the candle at both ends, it's by dynamiting it. To top it all off, we've got high winds today, and vicious wind chills, and I'm staying inside as much as humanly possible now because my body doesn't handle this well (or at all) anymore. 

Always, always, the chase for sales in an effort to pay the never-ending, never-shrinking pile of medical bills. Wings has a brand-new piece up, here, and it's one of my new favorites. It's big and solid and absolutely beautiful. And we're down to about the last of the shipping days to get stuff where it needs to go for Christmas, so get your orders in now.

And as I keep saying, I also have to spend today (EVERY day) on work that brings in actual scratch, sales or subscribers or otherwise. Whatever else is bearing down on me, that always has to be Job 1. Ordinarily, the sales and commissions we get this time of year are what see us through six long hard months of winter (but that has not the been the case the last couple of years); on top of ordinary winter cost of living and now this construction mess, I have more tests upcoming soon on top of the tens of thousands of dollars' worth of medical debt already trying to drive me into an early grave. Time is short for the holidays, so if you have special orders, get them in to me now so he has time to create them for you. For now, though, I'm so far behind on this day (and on the week as a whole) that I'll never catch up, so most of the rest is cut-and-paste.

Most of my attention has to be focused on bringing in money, through sales or subscribers or any other means, because the bills don't pay themselves, either, and the heavy burden I'm carrying on that score is inhibiting my ability to heal in a not-insignificant way. Please share these routinely:

• My new Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds) (and if you subscribe today you won't be billed until January 1st for December);
• 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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