The worst of both scenarios.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

The snow is almost entirely gone. 

It's still bitterly cold, partly from the actual temps, but especially from the winds. It's going to be brutal again tonight. We're supposed to get a warming trend starting tomorrow, but still no snow, and it's the worst of both scenarios.

I'm feeling more than a little overwhelmed right now. It's been an ungodly expensive week, a bunch of those annual/biannual bills coming due now, and the outlay has been absolutely unholy. No sales to counteract it, either. And there are so many people needing help right now, and I can't keep up with this full-blast firehose of need.

It's all the harder in the face of the Nazis' open and public real-time attempts to burn down the entire country and kill all of us who are not them in the process, while the Dems cower and cave and comply in advance. Anyone who voted for Laken-Riley or any of these other evils is dead to me now, and that includes all your faves, the one's y'all so foolishly call things like "Senator Bae." They're not your boyfriends [or girlfriends]. They're public servants who are supposed to be working for us all, and this nonsense just enables their cowardice and venality.

And people die because of it.

We took care of the hot-meal thing yesterday, at least ina. very limited way. 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. Today, I'm trying desperately to find a load of firewood for a family in emergency need of it. And 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)(3), 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. One will be ald-style traditional necklace a giant Four Sacred Directions pendant set with giant old turquoise and strung on beads; one will be that extraordinary cuff I posted here the other day. But I've got to sell something, for the love of all that's holy.

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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