Monday, April 19, 2021

Such a hard life.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

That was late yesterday, during the few moments the mercury went above sixty degrees (before bringing back a quick snow flurry a couple of hours later). The pups are ten months old today; as you can see, they have such a hard life now. They and the horses and the chickens and the birds have got it made. Which is why we're now up to ELEVEN of the male yellow-headed blackbirds, eating everyone out of house and home. 

For humans around here, not so much. We had an early start this morning; an elder came by for some help. So many folks needing help, and staring down fifteen months of pandemic is making everything so much worse. Now, apparently there are four new youth COVID-19 cases at the local high school, and yet people all over town are refusing to mask, refusing to distance, bringing in their colonizer friends and family members from all over, demanding that people open everything. The Pueblo remains rightly closed, and white people apparently fairly routinely run the gate and they have to chase them down and expel them.  [And you will be expelled, and never permitted back. This is not your land.] Meanwhile, racist white women and men are on FB spreading vicious Klan-style hatred of immigrants and Native people.

The other bad news, beyond the weather and the unremitting constant pain, is that taxes are still hanging over my head, as well as a bunch of other stuff for the year to come.  And then there's Wings's hearing aids, because I think he's finally convinced that we need to make the investment. And, of course, we have to get hold of Pojoaque Pueblo's bison program to see how much it will cost to buy a share of a buffalo. Early research suggests around ~$2K, so we may need to crowdfund that. The thing about it is that it won't feed only us; it'll get shared with other folks. I 'm going to need to set up PayPal pools to fund all of these things if we can't make a whole bunch of sales now. It's endless, and I am so tired just thinking about it. 

We need sales. SalessalesSALES.

SALES. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS RIGHT NOW, AND I CANNOT GET ANY TIME TO MAKE SALES.

The last couple of years have required us to dig deep and ante up to help others at a level we've never done before. This year? The first month and a half of 2021? Had already buried that, and we're a whole lot more "mutual aid" beyond that point now. People are suffering. And I'm going to have to do some fundraising for a couple of other folks on here in the days and weeks to come. I just have to get the taxes off my plate first (and deal with the big checks we'll have to write, for the rest of '20 and 1st quarter of '21). If we had money, we'd just give it to these folks outright, but the kind they need is way beyond anything we'll ever be able to do, hence the need to help with fundraising.

But as I said about that being why we do what we do, especially now in these days of pandemic, it's become abundantly clear that too often, there IS NO tomorrow, and the only chance you might have to help someone stay alive is TODAY. Things are bad locally; no economy, nothing. No vaccines for most folks dependent on the state system, either. We have lost SO much to 2020 (and already in 2021), so very, very many people, and the gifts and the talents and the knowledge and the wisdom they carried too often lost with them. 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. People continue to need help, and we give it, but we're up well over $2 grand in just one week in February, and a whole lot more both before and since. 

I've got to find it again somewhere. Part of my work involves me reorganizing the Web site and then promoting the hell out of everything again. That's on top of all the other work I need to do around here, and I have been mostly useless, largely due to the recent flurry of episodes with my health. For every episode, it takes me multiple days to recover, all while hoping that another one doesn't set me back even further. That's not good. Too many people need help, and the government remains determined to see us die. There's work to do. This is why I've had to stop doing some things; there are just not enough hours in the day anymore, and I've got to make it all of this up somewhere. So:
  • Sales here
  • Testimonials here
  • Amazon wishlist here (priorities are LaminaSaver for Miika & metal/glass/dishwasher cleaners);
  • Patreon here;
  • Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to make up this staggering outlay somehow. There's even new work, here and here and now here, among other new pieces from 3 weeks ago, too, so please watch for them and share the links. 


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