Bare aridified dirt.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025'; all rights reserved.

Ever wonder what drought look like in winter? Welp. It looks like that. We came outside this morning to find massive cracks in the earth from the area between Miika's pen and th hay al along the studio, in front of the tool and grain boxes, and all the way down to the chicken coop. It's a mix of this deep, brutal cold combined with a complete lack of anything like snow.

The hell of it is that that whole area? Just a half-decade ago, all of that was grass. Yeah, sure, it would be dormant grass right now, but still with ground cover. Now, it's just bare aridified dirt.

Speaking of bare aridified dirt, that's what's in what passes for the souls of those running the show in D.C. right now. I've never seen such utter trash in my life. They are hell-bent on genocide on every conceivable front, and if you're not one of them? They'll be coming for you, too, no matter how may axes of privilege you've enjoyed all your life. For those without? Yeah, every day is going to be a fight.

One of the ways we fight it as by making sure everyone survives. We've been doing that forever behind the scenes, but we took on this more overt role, in public, because it has become necessary now. Today was pure misery on the pain front [hard to stand or walk when your metatarsal joints are all subluxed, but here we are], but we ran our errands, and I took care of the hot-meal thing. I'll also post the outreach campaign's wishlist again as soon as a new shipping address is settled; I'm guessing that will be next week sometime.  For now, there's an emergency need at the Pueblo:  The Oo-oo-nah Arts Center, which serves the Pueblo's children, has been hit hard by the horrors of this economy. They're a (c)(30, not a federal entity, and if they're going to stay open? They have to pay the insurance premium that just hit, which is up to $5K now. If you can spare anything at all, please do; this nurtures each successive generation of artists, and it also functions in part as a community center for the Pueblo, too, and it's absolutely imperative that it stay open.  You can donate via PayPal, Venmo, or debit/credit card here [the site's donate page (scroll down to the turquoise "Donate" button) is here]. If you do give, let me know; I don't have a way of tracing it, which means that self-reporting is the only way I can give folks an indication of how much is still needed.

My joints are so bad now that I'm not going anywhere, I hope, before late next week. That should give me a few days to focus mostly on chasing sales, too, which we need to do daily anyway. It takes at least one sale a week [sometimes more] just for us to break even on the year, and last year? We didn't even do half that. So now would still be a good time to buy. TONS of new and fabulous work on the site, and tons more on the way, too.

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 far worse than the last, we urgently need to begin 2025 on a better footing before taxes take every cent, so please share all of the links. 

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