Increasingly bare.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

This morning. Most of the snow is gone; tundra and trees alike are increasingly bare. It feels like a metaphor for everything else in the world right now. Finances, sure, but mostly . . . everything in today's news is terrible, because the world is mostly terrible right now.

And there's very little we can do about most of that from here. We don't have that kind of authority or control over anything. All we can do is stick to our principles, and make things that tiniest bit better where we can, and it's never enough, but for now, it has to be.

And, of course, fix the finances issue as bets e can, which is hard when everything else is awful. No sales for about three weeks now, and that's not sustainable. I've got to get the tax stuff compiled and to our preparer, and then, of course, we'll have to pay the damn thing [the tax bill, not the preparer]. I also have to bring in enough to pay for digging a new leachfield as soon as we can get it done, and for paying out $200 cash every 8-10 days in the meantime until it's done [the most recent having been two days ago].  It was $250 out the door on medical stuff yesterday, and I ahve four very costly scrips to pick up tomorrow.

We've also had four now five requests for help here in the last two weeks, and a lot of it's tradish stuff, which means we can't say no. There will be a lot more of that this year, and when you occupy a [very relative] position of privilege, you have an obligation to help. I am also going to ahve to replace my laptop, and at some point, I will need to get a wheelchair, because even suppressing my immune system entirely is not going to regenerate the missing cartilage and repair the ongoing joint and connective tissue damage that comes from a lifetime of being refused treatment. I'm still not going to be able to stand for very long or walk very far, and that is the only way around it at this point. 

But to do it, I need help. As I said, Wings has a great deal of new work on the site: the newest three listed above, plus other necklaces, Warrior Woman pins, Pueblo pins, lots of new earrings. There are two new pairs of absolutely ethereal earrings from last week, and an extraordinary new necklace in the form of a spirit messenger. Go look; there's phenomenal work on there, new and less so. An as always, all the regular links are listed below, with sales, as always, being the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities now are the liquid soaps and the descalers that I can't get here, the dog treats for the monsters, and the newest thing at the top, a harness that will let me haul my camera around [which I have to do for our work] without further damaging my neck, now that the pain has become intolerable); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim 2023, we really need to get this year moving onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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