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I know this is New Year's Day to all of you, but ours was eleven days ago. So we're marking it as the first day of 2021 (which is of course itself an artifice, too). The big difference here today is that the clouds around last night's moon seem to have heralded an unforecast change in the weather; after some mixed sun this morning, its all clouds and deep cold now, and the air feels like snow. It's still not forecast, but if we get it, that would be a gift.
Unfortunately, any change in the weather has not translated to real change in the nature of things for the new year.
January is always the hardest month of our year (July runs a close second, but it's not as bad as January). We have a ton of annual or biannual expenses that come due, some insurance but mostly business-related. That fact doesn't make them any less necessary, nor any less urgent, and this year winds up being the most expensive yet. To cover everything I absolutely have to cover, I have to bring in $3,000 now. Most of them will not recur (save a couple in July) until next January, but we made exactly four holiday sales this year, an all-time low, and as terrible as things are here for everyone? They're about to get a lot worse.
There is no economy now. There's nothing. People are literally dying all around us from the government's failures, and I don't know how we keep them, or us, alive unless I can cover the bills. We have lost SO much to 2020, so very, very many people, and the gifts and the talents and the knowledge and the wisdom they carried too often lost with them. Because this state has followed the lead of the country and refused to do what was required, we are about to see a very big spike in new cases, probably as early as two weeks from now; the current spike in deaths remains sustained daily. People have needed so much more help than we could give them, but we did as much as we could, even when it put us in a bind, and we will need to do much more of that this year. But I am entering 2021 already carrying an enormous burden, and I have to get the $3K in expenses handled. So:
The January avalanche of outsized expenses has already begun this morning. This is going to be our toughest one yet, in terms of sheer cost, and our worst month of the entire year in that regard. I need to bring in that $3K very fast to cover it all, so please share all of our links. And if you've been contemplating a purchase? Marking the birth of 2021 would be a very, very good time to do it. There's even new work, here and here, so please share the links.
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