A good day.

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That was early this morning, shortly after midnight — what I was given to understand, as a child, to be the holiest hour of the most sacred night.

It felt like an accomplishment, because I did it all yesterday, all before dark. It's just the trappings, but they're beautiful, powerful trappings, ones that hold all the magic of memory, and of hope.

The hope is for a world that actually prizes peace and generosity, that finds success in helping, in giving, in creating a world where everyone can thrive, and no one goes hungry, unhoused, or without the other necessities of a decent life.

Instead, we're spiraling into the exact opposite of that, which is what makes the work on the ground by ordinary people so much more important now. 

But there's time enough for that before year's end, and in the new year. Today, we took it easy, in the sense that the pace and focus were very different. It probably wouldn't have looked "easy" to anyone watching, but compared to recent weeks, it was much more relaxed, at least. And it was a good day.

But there's still all the sales stress. We were blessed with a really good sale last week, so the pressure to cover immediate things would have been off in a few days when the payment cleared, were it not for the thieves that shoved our account into negatives. But even aside from that bullshit, there's still all the rest, all the stuff we couldn't cover all year because of one catastrophe after another, the taxes that still need to be prepaid, all the January bills that will be here before we know it [which include truck insurance and a whole bunch of business-related expenses that come due once a year, but total well into four figures]. So we still need to make the equivalent of a sale a day now, on average. And he has so much new work!  I'm hoping to pull another late night to get five of them up yet. yeah, I know, I shouldn't, but it has to be done, because the last two years have all but killed us financially, and we're almost out of year. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [somebody got the vacuum! which makes priorities now the thermos and the rugs];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly [daily now, really] sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

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