An incredibly eerie day.

photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

Stretching all the way across the sky. These are not real clouds; there's not a single thing natural about them. They're contrails, and they're everywhere today, and lest you think I'm complaining about "chemtrails" woo, let me assure that I'm not. It's scientifically firmly established that they are 1) full of microplastic pollution, and 2) suck all the ambient moisture in the air, which deepens drought.

One more troubling thing to add to what is already an incredibly eerie day here.

Everything's terrible. 

No sales, but lots of expenses come due today, and my Patreon, such as it is, won't clear the bank before tomorrow or Friday at the earliest. It's more than $200 down from last month, and that's on top of the more than $300 it was already down from this summer, so I'm now down more than $500 a month, and we cannot afford that kind of hit. Between that and the progression of my disease, I'm so far behind now that I can't do anything, and I am at my wits' end. I have to come up with a couple hundred for Wings's scrips tomorrow, and a good four figures the rest of this week and next for autopays, septic service, and a few other one-offs, and I have no way to do it. Meanwhile, my illness seems to be attacking my kidneys now, along with several other things. I spent last night throwing up, and the night before wide awake and literally sobbing with pain. I'm beyond my wits' end into uncharted territory now.

I have two of Wings's latest pairs of earrings up, here and here; there will be another new pair in the same informal series later today [sodalite, and they are gorgeous]. Selling those would be a start, but even that would be only a start. I've got to do better, but how? I feel like I'm losing my mind, and the unbearable physical pain just adds to that.

It's been a terrible year on virtually every front, and now, nearing the end, I'm afraid we actually might not make it. I need help. There isn't any.

We have to make up a LOT of ground financially over the next two+ months. A LOT. This year has been so slow that we're way behind on everything, including prepaying next year's taxes [that's a zero; a big fat zero]. I need to bring in at least one sale a week, preferably two, for the remainder of the year. And it's clear that my illness's progression means that I cannot maintain the pace or workload I have in years past. That means that we need help with shares, and with testimonials, too. If you have some of Wings's work and are willing to have a testimonial published on the site, send it to me via the Contact form (we will list you however you wish, by name, name and initial, initials only, some other way that doesn't identify you; you can see an example in our newest, here, and with luck, I'll have a second one up by tonight). All the links are listed below, so please share:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (liquid soaps are priority now [or Amazon cards, and I can order them myself]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and there will be much, much more in the weeks to come. The way this year has gone, things will still be grim for a good while and the holidays will be here before you know it, so please share all of the links. 

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