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All those beautiful black skies yesterday, and we got next to nothing out of it. The storm sat off on all sides all day, and finally only delivered anything at all well after dark. Even that turned out to be only a dusting. I mean, we'll take it, and yes, we're grateful for it, but we need a whole lot more than this to break the death grip of this drought.
We need to break a lot of death grips now: this pandemic, the poverty that has become so much greater with it, the fascism that is back out in the open again now. Before we can do any of that, we need to break the death grip of colonial white supremacy, and unfortunately, the dominant group has zero interest in that, including everybody's Dem faves. Which reduces us to hacking at it ourselves on the micro level.
Hard to do much hacking, or anything else, when I'm in this kind of agony, though. I knew that would be the case, and I aggravated it by taking care of some other things that had to be done early yesterday morning, to say nothing of everything I was doing the day before. Unfortunately, this kind of pain and fatigue are lethal to my ability to focus, so expect everything to be late and low-quality, probably for the next few weeks, because this flare is pretty clearly settling in for the long haul.
On the plus side, JoanMar met the match 5 days ago, and the matching funds were deposited moments later, putting her halfway to goal. Another mutual friend is setting up a GoFundMe on her behalf, and that will make tracking easier, and hopefully make fundraising easier, too. But thanks to the generous donor with the matching funds, she hit the 50% of goal mark early Tuesday afternoon, and that is a beautiful thing in and of itself. On top of that, Wings is getting the first dose of the vaccine this Thursday (it goes by age, and he just made it, probably in part because he's diabetic; my number won't be up for a few weeks yet). That is a huge load off my mind, too.
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, and there will be two more new pieces shortly, so please watch for them and share the links.
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