Something bright when everything else is bleak.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

He brought me those today: something bright when everything else is bleak. And it is bleak. You only need to look at the land here to know the truth of that.

Of course, it's not just our collapsing climate; the world is disintegrating in so very many ways now, and humanity just seems to get worse with each new crisis. So many folks in our communities on the very edge of many different precipices, and there's nothing we can do at this point to help them. I'm back to worrying about merely staying alive, given the other night's terrifying episode, one I'm not anxious to repeat but that isn't fully gone yet.

Speaking of impending doom, I've got to pull in some sales. We still have to pay all of next year's quarterly taxes; it took everything we had just to get this year's covered, finally, last month, and there's nothing left for quarterly pre-payments now. Add to that the fact that my Patreon is down this month (i.e., Saturday's payout for June) by more than $250, a huge monthly hit that we can't afford, the payment for Miika's hay (she can't have alfalfa and grass is now impossibly costly), and Stormy's upcoming vet visit on top of the dental stuff, and . . . . Storm appears to have developed ovarian remnant syndrome (she's gone into heat almost three years after being spayed), and that will probably involve an ultrasound or a lap right up front, and then either surgery or lifetime meds, and frankly, I'm hoping for the latter, for her as much as for us. But we can't catch a break. Every time I think I have a handle on whatever's immediately in front of us, two or three or four new things pile on.

But the dental stuff is going to be $25k before we're done, and for us, thats all in cash, and . . . $25K. I don't even have words. Or anything else. I'm just numb.

So I have to bring in more sales, and soon. Thinking that we were okay for now was entirely predicated on the assumption of consistent sales for the second half of this year; if we don't make them, then no, we're not okay now, because I have to make everything stretch a lot further than it can possibly go. There's a lot of new work on the site already, including Wings's absolutely phenomenal new cuff, which you can see from all angles here (and you want to see it from all angles, believe me). I posted the two new pairs of earrings here the other night, and the new gemstone bead trio is today's feature here. Meanwhile, he has more silverwork in rotation, too (two cuffs, more earrings. And I really do need to start bringing in consistent sales again; the year's only half over, and . . . $25K. I don't have any other way to do this for him. All the links are listed below, so please share:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (current priority still the Zero-Odor sprays, because these days we're back to wet dogs again; and the liquid soaps, which we can't get locally); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and things are grim here, so please share all of the links. 

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