Sometimes you get to see the storm coming.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Sometimes you get to see the storm coming.

Then there are all those times you don't.

It was actually beautiful today. The clouds started building up early, but we didn't get any rain here until mid-afternoon. It lasted, oh, I don't know, maybe an hour, maybe a bit more. Not as fierce as yesterday, but heavy and steady.

It's not why everything's so freaking late, though. That's just constant disruptions and derailments all day long, complicated by pain and fatigue making it almost impossible to focus. The weather isn't actually bothering me much, despite the constant seesawing of barometric pressure and the humidity and the rain and even the winds. This is just . . . progression, apparently. There are times when I'm just so tired of pain. I've never, ever been free of it, but as these conditions do permanent, progressive damage, there are days when it's really hard to take. So here I am at 10 PM trying to get everything done in spite of it all.

We've now been blessed with one sale this week, for which I am profoundly grateful, and it allowed us to make up that $700 expense from last week that I didn't know to expect. But I still need to make at least two more sales this week just to [sort of, partly, not completely] get us caught up and [sort of, partly, not completely] breaking even again. Which means, of course, that we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and the first half of this one at least as bad, weurgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                 

Red Willow Spirit: The Clouds Still Dance With Dusk's Light

Photo copyright Wings, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for the breathtaking post-storm skies of summer in this place, and of their twilight fire. It's three images linked by two extraordinarily apt works of wearable art, all reminders even in these days of altered patterns that the clouds still dance with dusk's light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.   

Real rain.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Black skies.

And now, we have rain. And I don't mean a little shower; I mean real rain, with dark clouds and thunder and lightning and wind and hail combined.

The temperature has dropped a full twenty degrees in under an hour, and even though there's a lull now where it's just a steady rain rather than a cloudburst, it's expected to continue off and on this evening and late tonight.

And I swear, you can see and feel the earth breathing again.

Now, if only I could do the same, both on the breathing front and the making it rain front.

I have GOT to bring in some sales this week. We're already two weeks behind on that, and Thursday hit us with a $700 expense [cash] that I didn't know was coming. I need to make that up, like now, but sales are too few and far between, and no amount of work on my part fixes that. Being so far behind on seemingly every front is bedeviling me now. And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and I can't deal with any more medical stuff right now, so it's just a questioning of managing the stupid pain as much as humanly possible [which isn't saying much; it's just sucking it up, gritting my teeth, and grinding through it s best I can, and that's not saying much, either]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. That's got to change, but I can't conjure sales out of thin air, forget money itself. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                 

Monday Photo Meditation: The Sky's Last Fire Before the Dark

Photo copyright Wings, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for a summer monsoon season early arrived, and for the power of its gifts of water and light. It's one that dates back some eleven years, to a later point in the season, showing the breathtaking beauty of the sky's last fire before dark.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.        

Or something.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Sometimes you just gotta roll around in the grass. Or something.

Stormy loves doing it, and I think it probably feels cool to her now. The dogs and the chickens are both feeling the heat more than they used to, just like we are. It's not age; it's the fact that it's been so unseasonably cold for so long, and also, I think, because even 80 degrees [which is as high as it's gotten] now is nothing like the 80-degree days of our younger years. Yeah, some of the ozone layer might have been restored, but not enough, and the warming of the earth itself makes this a whole other kind of heat.

Supposedly we're getting wild weather this week. They warned us of a "marginal risk" of it for today, but it all hit on the counties north and east of the mountains. I'm sure it will gain speed and force as it barrels along those eastern flats toward the South and Midwest, too. We're entering catastrophic-weather season on a whole bunch of fronts, and nobody's ready.

I'm disgusted on every single front: the country, the illegitimate "government," the party, its BlueMAGA defenders, everything. Cowards want their comfort and convenience at all costs, with absolutely no idea what's coming, and no willingness to learn, and also no willingness to learn how to read and think critically, and so here we fucking are. These people would be lining up to report Anne Frank to the Nazis, all while posting "Punch Nazis!" memes on Bluesky. My pain levels are such that I have no patience with bullshit, and certainly not with murderous, genocidal colonizer Nazi-enabling bullshit, so I fully expect to piss off a whole bunch more cowards this week. They think they're getting their Clinton triangulating years back.  Instead, they've lost the hole damn country, and they're busy giving away the people in it now.  To rendition and worse.

Yeah, I'm pissed. Friday was chemo day, and the small respite I usually get from the worst of the pain over the weekend?  Gone; all gone. It's been brutal; I'm in agony every minute of the day, and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it. And I still manage not to be a complete fucking coward, so what's their excuse?

Meanwhile, I have GOT to bring in some sales this week. I'm already two weeks behind, and Thursday hit us with a $700 expense [cash] that I didn't know was coming. I need to make that up like now, but sales are too few and far between, and no amount of work on my part fixes that. Being so far behind on seemingly every front is bedeviling me now. And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and I can't deal with any more medical stuff right now, so it's just a questioning of managing the stupid pain as much as humanly possible [which isn't saying much; it's just sucking it up, gritting my teeth, and grinding through it s best I can, and that's not saying much, either]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week, and I'm already behind there, never mind the $700 I wasn't expecting to shell out this week. That's got to change, but I can't conjure sales out of thin air, forget money itself. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

What Lights the Summer Nights

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a pair of works from Wings's signature gemstone-bead series, manifest both as the return of the light and as what lights the night for us now. It's two coil bracelets that were not created to match but still seem to share the animating spirits of moon and stars and meteor showers and more, of what lights the summer nights for us now.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.  

Finally, summer.

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Finally, summer. Blue skies, green on the slopes, actual warmth in the air. 

I can't really enjoy it; yesterday messed me up badly. Trouble walking; constant, all-encompassing pain. There's nothing I can do for it, either, apparently. Most weeks, I at least get a halfway-decent weekend courtesy of Friday's chemo, but not today.

I'm so, so tired.

Before anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised all but the last ~$2K of it already. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to help them close it out before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.

Thursday hit us with a $700 expense [cash] that I didn't know was coming, so I need to make that up like now, but sales are too few and far between, and no amount of work on my part fixes that. Being so far behind on seemingly every front is bedeviling me now. And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and I can't deal with any more medical stuff right now, so it's just a questioning of managing the stupid pain as much as humanly possible [which isn't saying much; it's just sucking it up, gritting my teeth, and grinding through it s best I can, and that's not saying much, either]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week, and I'm already behind there, never mind the $700 I wasn't expecting to shell out this week. That's got to change, but I can't conjure sales out of thin air, forget money itself. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

Flowering Into the Sacred Hoop of Summer

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for all the shades of the warm season, for blue skies and white clouds and the golden fire of the light. It's the last coil bracelet from Wings's earlier collections, not part of a trio and thus at a slightly lower price point, one the captures the beauty and medicine of our world flowering into the sacred hoop of summer.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.  

Friday Feature: Uncoiling Petals and Serpentine Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a pair of works that were created entirely independently and at a great remove in time, yet now seem clearly to belong together. It's a cuff in a spectacularly unusual form, set with jewels in greens and golden browns, and a pair of loop earrings strung in the same shades, together the embodiment of uncoiling petals and serpentine light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.  

Out of order again tonight.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

More chasing work on the bolo; you can see how much deeper the lines are. He's also domed it already; he's got the bezel ready to go for that stone for tomorrow. The leather for the cord came in today, so it might be done this weekend.

Out of order again tonight. Today wound up being errands day, and everything took longer than it needed to take, and I am so fucking tired. Being on my feet on hard surfaces for hours is almost impossible for me anymore, but there wasn't a choice, and now I can hardly walk at all. I can't eat beforehand [med stuff], so I as starving by the time we got home, and there are also other meds I can't take if I'm not going to be able eat shortly, so I've had to backload a bunch of morning meds along with my chemo dose this afternoon.

Long story short, I feel like absolute shit, and there's nothing I can do about it.

Before anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised all but the last ~$2K of it already. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to help them close it out before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.

Yesterday hit us with a $700 expense [cash] that I didn't know was coming, so I need to make that up like now, but sales are too few and far between, and no amount of work on my part fixes that. Being so far behind on seemingly every front is bedeviling me now. And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and I can't deal with any more medical stuff right now, so it's just a questioning of managing the stupid pain as much as humanly possible [which isn't saying much; it's just sucking it up, gritting my teeth, and grinding through it s best I can, and that's not saying much, either]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week, and I'm already behind there, never mind the $700 I wasn't expecting to shell out yesterday. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

The latest.

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This is the latest work in progress. It's going to be a bolo, and he's enlarged it to be quite a bit bigger than even the marcasite pendant. He says that he's got more silverwork to do, deepening the lines [this is all freehand work, and the chasing takes a lot of time and labor]. And that stone? It's one of I think only two remaining in a lot that he bought about fifteen years ago, all ultra-high-grade Kingman material that cost a ridiculous amount of money then; it'd be much higher now. This is the larger of the two, and it's bird's-eye Kingman with water-webbing in a giant specimen.

And I really need to sell it when it's complete, but that'll be several days yet. In the meantime, I need to sell something [or several somethings] between now and the end of the weekend. We got hit with a $700 expense today that I didn't know was coming, so I really need to make that up. 

But before I get to anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised all but the last ~$2K of it already. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to help them close it out before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.

Being so far behind on seemingly every front is bedeviling me now. And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and I can't deal with any more medical stuff right now, so it's just a questioning of managing the stupid pain as much as humanly possible [which isn't saying much; it's just sucking it up, gritting my teeth, and grinding through it s best I can, and that's not saying much, either]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

#TBT: Stars Like Small Silver Blossoms

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

It's #ThrowbackThursday at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #TBT work that dates back almost eleven years, one that was a very special commission from a friend of ours as a gift for a friend of hers. It's one in Wings's signature series of many decades' standing, the Spirit Horse, this one adorned with stars like small silver blossoms and a lock of hair belonging to the friend's late horse.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. As always, this work will never be duplicated, but if the style speaks to your spirit, simply inquire via the site's Contact form; Wings can create a version uniquely your own. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.         

So far behind on seemingly every front.

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Beautiful morning fog again. Rain most of the overnight hours, steady and soaking. Wild weather forecast for later this afternoon into this evening. The land is absorbing it all, fortunately.

I just wish I could get caught up even a little bit, but no. 

But before I get to anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised almost half of it in two days. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to get them up to four grand, even five, before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.

Being so far behind on seemingly every front is bedeviling me now. And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and I can't deal with any more medical stuff right now, so it's just a questioning of managing the stupid pain as much as humanly possible [which isn't saying much; it's just sucking it up, gritting my teeth, and grinding through it s best I can, and that's not saying much, either]. I did finally get the glass-opal earrings up, here, and that new necklace [and that necklace is ::cue flames and fireworks::],here. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

By the Gifts of Winter Does Summer Medicine Bloom

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a masterwork for the end of winter, which seems as late arriving as the other markers of summer this year. It has always been true here that by the gifts of winter does summer medicine bloom, and if it requires a few days or weeks of unseasonal cold for a year of growth and abundance, we'll welcome it and be grateful for it.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.  

Just the early ones.

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Gorgeous morning fog. At 6 AM, it was still on the ground, moving up the lower slopes. This was maybe around ten, after the early chores were out of the way.

Just the early ones. Everything else has eaten into my own work time so badly that, once again, I'm stuck doing it all now. With two injured hands, so that's just lovely.

Before I get to anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised almost half of it in two days. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to get them up to four grand, even five, before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.

All the rest is bedeviling me now. And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and I can't deal with any more medical stuff right now, so it's just a questioning of managing the stupid pain as much as humanly possible [which isn't saying much; it's just sucking it up, gritting my teeth, and grinding through it s best I can, and that's not saying much, either]. I did finally get the glass-opal earrings up, here, and that new necklace [and that necklace is ::cue flames and fireworks::], here. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

 

Red Willow Spirit: The Backcountry Blooms of a New Summer

Photo copyright Wings, 2025;
all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for a land whose seasonal spirits are delayed in their arrival now. It's two images linked by a single newer work of wearable art, all of them honoring the backcountry blooms of a new summer in this place, and the tiny pollinators they welcome home.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.  

A little more extreme.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Finally, real green. Last week's brief weather helped; today's will, too. We had a lovely hours'-long rain this afternoon, the kind of soft, steady, soaking rain that is gentle on the earth, but effective.

The radar map suggests that what's coming this way for tonight might be a little more extreme.

We can use that, too, but it runs the risk of things like flash-flooding and wind damage and outages and so forth. We'll see. We might also get nothing at all.

Before I get t anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised almost half of it in two days. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to get them up to four grand, even five, before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.

It's going to be a busy week ahead, mostly playing catch-up on everything we couldn't get done in May. Labs are in, and my prediction was right: They tell us absolutely nothing, and that none of that means that something isn't wrong; it just means that it doesn't show up in that particular space. Well, the one thing they seem to tell us [but don't] is that my BG is two points high [two lousy points]; and it doesn't actually mean anything at all. Why?  Because that's a fasting measure, and I was told not to bother fasting because that was simply an automatic part of the panel, not what they were actually looking for, and I told the guy that I had coffee just beforehand [sweetened, of course], and instead he apparently wrote "fasting" on it because he doesn't understand the basic terminology of his job? ::Sigh:: 

Anyway. The one bit of good news that I'm taking from it is that a year and a half of low-dose chemo has not done a damn thing to my liver [and apparently liver damage is a relatively common protocol-halting side effect]. The problematic part is that my RBC and WBC counts are right smack in the middle of normal, so why are my lymph nodes running riot badly enough to sublux my joints? I really, really don't want to have to go for a bunch of scans and biopsies again, in the first place because we can't afford any of it and in the second because that kind of repeated travel, on top of the tests, does me a lot of physical damage, and I'm already having more than enough of a problem with all of that.

And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and wasting multiple days traveling elsewhere to be stuck in imaging tubes and have needles extracting samples doesn't help me do any of that. I did finally get the glass-opal earrings up, here, and that new necklace [and that necklace is ::cue flames and fireworks::], here. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

 

Monday Photo Meditation: Life's Flowering Gifts

Photo copyright Wings, 2025;
all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for the beginning of summer, and for memory and loss and life itself. It's a reflection on irrecoverable loss amid changed circumstances, and on the obligation still to honor and be grateful for life's flowering gifts.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.        

Some things don't change.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

More work in progress. This is not actually an entirely new piece; it's an adaptation of a client's purchase into something different that works better for them than the original. But I always love being able to catch the torch flame.

New month, new season, by one benchmark, anyway. May was mostly awful, and I hope June winds up being much, much better. As always, though, I'm still behind; otherwise this would've been up this morning.

Some things don't change, unfortunately.

Before anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised just over 10% already today. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to get them up to a couple grand before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.

It's going to be a busy week ahead, mostly playing catch-up on everything we couldn't get done in May. Also awaiting the results of my labs, and fully aware that they may tell us absolutely nothing, and that none of that means that something isn't wrong; it just means that it doesn't show up in that particular space. I really, really don't want to have to go for a bunch of scans and biopsies again, in the first place because we can't afford any of it and in the second because that kind of repeated travel, on top of the tests, does me a lot of physical damage, and I'm already having more than enough of a problem with all of that.

And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and wasting multiple days traveling elsewhere to be stuck in imaging tubes and have needles extracting samples doesn't help me do any of that. And I'm still trying to get the glass-opal earrings up, and that new necklace [and that necklace is ::cue flames and fireworks::]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

What Flowers In the Summer Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2025;
all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a pair of works from the same category, earrings to honor the seasonal phenomena of solar flares and the rising and setting of smoky suns. It's two pairs of traditional concha earrings, both set with fabulously chatoyant tiger's eye, both of them beautiful examples of what flowers in the summer light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.  

Rockin' again.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Hopefully coming yet tonight, as well as those opal glass earrings. He's got the bead strand done; he just has to add the findings. Now that the belt is fof his workbench, he's rockin' again.

Hopefully I will be, too, for June. That depends on it being a better month than May has been, but that's a ridiculously low bar. I'm so far behind on literally everything, and we have such a need for sales now; I need to be able to devote more time to all of it. The pain is not helping, nor is the way it's impairing basic functions, like, say, walking. Yesterday was chemo day, so I might get a couple of days' respite now . . . or not. It's not working as well as it was, which probably means I need a higher dose, but that makes me feel like crap, too, so . . . ::shrug:: I can't win.

Please also don't forget our great-niece, who is battling an aggressive cancer [you know Camille, Roy's oldest girl? this is her stepdaughter]. Marcy was supposed to have the cancerous kidney removed last Friday, but they got in there and found out they couldn't do it. It's inoperable, at least locally. She updated her GFM with the news that they are sending her to the Mayo Clinic, where there are surgeons who specialize in this kind of surgery. That means that she will be incurring significant travel and other costs, and she will also likely need increasingly aggressive interventions in terms of chemo/immunotherapies [and possibly radiation], and those immunotherapies are hideously expensive. I expect that they will need to increase the goal on her GFM, and she will certainly need plenty of new donations to it, regardless. If you have a few bucks to spare, please do, and please at least share it with your networks. She's young, with a family, and she was already at Stage 4 when they first caught it ~6 months ago. You can donate here.

And then, of course, it's all the rest of it. I've GOT to bring in some sales this weekend: This week was labs, and those cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips at the end of last week, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over the next few days to make up for all of it. I'm operating on two nights of essentially no sleep, and my pain levels are off the charts, but the bills won't wait.

In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. He has a brand-new necklace in this new informal series, completed only yesterday, that's up here; the necklace and new cuff from the other day are both up now, here and here. There are also two new pairs of earrings [one featured today], which are here and here. I'm hoping for more of his new bead-earring series over the days to come, although between everything else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain, no guarantees that *I'll* get them up as soon as they're done. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

The Sky Hosts the Dance of Storm and Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a pair of works from the same category, wrought in the same old-school style, honoring the light that holds the sky and the skydancers who travel along it. It's two pairs of earrings, each simultaneously both newer and older than the other, reminders that the sky hosts the dance of storm and light, and our world is better for it.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.