I know how it feels.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024;
all rights reserved.

This poor aspen has been struggling in this drought. Even in the face of a 1200-year record version, plus all the other aspects of climate collapse bedeviling us these last several years, it's managed to leaf out most of its branches, save the highest ones. 

Until now.

Yesterday's ridiculous gale-force winds that swept through here repeatedly stripped all the remaining upper leaves from it, and all of the northern half of the lower part, too. All that remains are the leaves on the south side of the trunk, and only the lower half of the tree at that.

I know how it feels; I feel pretty stripped of anything healthy and alive myself lately.

Yesterday was chemo day, and while the pain hasn't abated, at least my brain feels a little less dead. My illness's effects on my brain go way beyond simple brain fog; it's a feeling of swelling, and also of disintegration, almost melting. So even if there's no respite from the pain, just having a little of my brain back is useful now. I can only hope it lasts more than a couple of days before the inflammatory response takes over again.

It's bad enough having all this terrible expense hanging over me, and no sales to offset any of it. It's worse when I can't even get my brain to function enough to chase sales in the first place.

But things are bad. It's been terrible for a year now. And right now, I need to bring in sales every single day to have a hope in hell of getting the IRS off our backs by the September due date. I have two weeks, basically, in which to do this, and I'm getting nowhere.

I HAVE GOT TO BRING IN SALES NOW, NO MATTER WHAT.  I NEED HELP.  TODAY.

There is a ton of new work on the site from just the last couple of weeks [with three or four new cuffs in the works currently, a necklace, and at least one belt buckle plus some collectible items coming soon]: 

• Three new cuffs, two set with incredible turquoise focals, one solid silver; go here, here, and here.
• Six pairs of new concha floral earrings in the Earrings Gallery here [larger are garnet, golden rutilated quartz, and malachite; smaller are amber, carnelian, and iolite];
• Art Deco Labradorite cuff here;  
• triangle wire youth bangle here; 
• Art Nouveau vine pattern-wire youth bangle here; 
• small Art Nouveau pattern-wire bangle pair here; 
• malachite butterfly/leaf-wing earrings here; 
• a big solid silver classic cuff here; 
• ten new pairs of the gemstone-bead earrings are also up in the Earrings Gallery;
• and another new cuff is also here. 

There's more on the way very soon. And I need to sell them all, because I still need to make sales at a rate of at least two per week for the rest of the year for us to catch up [and that's just breaking even; I'm already behind on that, which means I need to make FOUR sales this week just to catch up]. So: GO BUY! PLEASE! Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Amazon cards are probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one already far worse than the last, we really need to get 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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