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Watching the storm clouds scale the peaks, you also get a real sense of the scale of the drop.
Facing a cliff edge of a different sort now, with the start of the second week of November and not a holiday sale or commission to show for it. Add to that the labor still ahead of this weekend on the wood weatherization (and the pain involved), and I'm at the end of my rope. I have to get other work done, and Wings has to get some studio time, ; he's got several pieces in the works that he hasn't been able to finish because of this nonsense. Also, we need a scaffold, badly, to get the upstairs on the north side, because the ground beneath is steeply angled and dangerous. Not that we could afford to rent one even if anyone local did rent them out, and no one does. I'm at my wits' end.
October's Patreon payment has already gone on bills (including the storage we're still paying for River and his mom even though he's not working here anymore), and there are plenty more to come this month (and more medical stuff for me in early December), and, yes, I'm scared. That cliff edge has a big drop beneath it, and winter's not even here yet.
We have got to make sales. Normally, Wings would already be in the middle of multiple commissions in the works by now, but nothing's normal anymore. I don't know what to do at this point; I can't conjure money from thin cold air. I posted two new pieces a few nights ago (links here) and another the night after that (links here). The new bracelet in the works is turning out not to be a bracelet at all; I'll explain when it drops, which might be this weekend. He has a number of other things in process, too; I'll post them as he completes them.
At any rate, my stress levels are off the charts along with my pain levels now. For those wondering about my own health issues, see here, although now there's a new wrinkle I'm not even going to bother to try to explain (suffice to say there's no affording treatment); with regard to the work being done, some of the details are here. Thanks to my Patreon subscribers (not sure who?) who updated their cards; I'm now down only between $25 and $50 for October. Still, I'm going to need help to get all this, the plumbing and everything else, done and handled, and I can't do it alone. Folks can help in several ways, and we really need it now:
Please share everything, because I'm suddenly back behind the eight-ball on a whole additional front, and yeah, I'm scared about covering everything and surviving, too. Thanks.
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