Red Willow Spirit: Fertile Shadow and Flowering Light

Photo copyright Wings, 2024; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for early summer days, for earth and sun and all the new greens and petaled hues of a firewheel prairie. It's four related images linked by a single work of wearable art shown from three vantage points, all of them selected to honor the medicine of these days before the rains, days of fertile shadow and flowering light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. As always, his photos are available in any of the usual three formats; simply inquire via the site's Contact form. It's now summer in this no-longer-new calendar year and facing complications and costs, some carried over from the end of last year, some all new, that have completely wiped us out. We need to make consistent sales urgently, so shares are very much needed and much appreciated.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.     

A very, very hard week.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

It's not a good shot, but it's a beautiful sky. That's what I was up doing at 4:45 this morning, having had yet another very bad night and then something outside waking up the dogs so that they were demanding to be let out to bark at it.

Waning crescent moon, six planets across the sky in a line, four visible to the naked eye but not capturable by the camera lens. Not this old camera, anyway. No chance of replacing my better but dead one until I get the laptop replaced. No chance of replacing the laptop until I get these medical and other costs covered over the weeks to come.

And, of course, no chance of any of that if I don't bring in sales.

So. On top of the taxes, the chimney cleaning, the change in our Web hosting that is getting put in process TODAY, the need to replace my dying laptop, and all the other nonsense? Four figures' worth of medical bills coming up fast. The haze of the stress of all this is what's killing me now. I refuse to entertain the notion of the new pain and other symptoms being anything other than autoimmune complications.

Until I have to, anyway. But without my meds [not due to arrive until next week], this is going to be a very, very hard week for me in terms of pain and insomnia and other, more worrying symptoms. What do I mean, "going to be?" It already IS. And meanwhile, the expenses won't wait.

So we've GOT to make sales now.  Desperately.  I need help; I can't do this alone.

I've put up a bunch of new work lately; there's more to come, including possibly a new cuff soon [he's not satisfied with it currently] and several new pairs of simple bezel-set gemstone earrings, the first three possibly as early as today. And as always, all the regular links are listed below. I've added some new items to the wish list; we're almost out of masks, and we both have to wear them in every interaction with anyone else [I have no immune system anymore, remember]; I've also found a hand soap that doesn't make my hands bleed, and while it's pricey, one bottle each in bathroom and kitchen lasts over a month apiece, even with how frequently we have to wash our hands given the work we do around here. But as always, sales are by far the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (apparently the FlexTape is also the priority now, so I'm told; otherwise, Amazon cards and the filters for the air purifiers); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim 2023, and with this year starting off MUCH worse (and given that we're already approaching the half-way mark), we really need to get 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                            

Monday Photo Meditation: A Season Both Lush and Sharp

Photo copyright Wings, 2024; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for these first beautiful days of summer in this land of elemental contradictions and extremes. It's a contemplation of the healing and beauty that attends destructive power in a season both lush and sharp, a marker of summer here, and of its humble small spirits too.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. As always, his photos are available in any of the usual three formats; simply inquire via the site's Contact form. It's now summer in this no-longer-new calendar year and facing complications and costs, some carried over from the end of last year, some all new, that have completely wiped us out. We need to make consistent sales urgently, so shares are very much needed and much appreciated.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.     

No clouds, but lots of haze.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

Lots of green. No clouds, but lots of haze. Not quite as pretty as the last few days, but just as warm, at least.

In theory, we'll get rain again starting next weekend. But this week, I've got to figure out a way to make it rain in the sales sense, because this summer is starting off very expensively. We've gotten the latest of the medical stuff out of the way, although it's set us back several hundred dollars in cash . . . and set us up for several hundred more dollars in costs four weeks from now, and potentially several thousand thereafter.

But we have to do it. With our health issues, there isn't a choice. His, fortunately, are mostly maintenance at this point; mine are the ones that are threatening to bankrupt us. Again.

So. On top of the taxes, the chimney cleaning, the change in our Web hosting that I need to get set this weekend to change in the coming week, the need to replace my dying laptop, and all the other nonsense? Four figures' worth of medical bills coming up fast. The haze of the stress of all this is what's killing me now. I refuse to entertain the notion of the new pain and other symptoms being anything other than autoimmune complications.

Until I have to, anyway.

But we've GOT to make sales now.  Desperately.  I need help; I can't do this alone.

I've put up a bunch of new work lately; there's more to come, including a new cuff probably later today, and several new pairs of simple bezel-set gemstone earrings possibly as early as today, but more likely over the next few days. And as always, all the regular links are listed below. I've added some new items to the wish list; we're almost out of masks, and we both have to wear them in every interaction with anyone else [I have no immune system anymore, remember]; I've also found a hand soap that doesn't make my hands bleed, and while it's pricey, one bottle each in bathroom and kitchen lasts over a month apiece, even with how frequently we have to wash our hands given the work we do around here. But as always, sales are by far the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (apparently the FlexTape is also the priority now, so I'm told; otherwise, Amazon cards and the filters for the air purifiers); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim 2023, and with this year starting off MUCH worse (and given that we're already approaching the half-way mark), we really need to get 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                            

The Verdant Greens of Summer

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an all-new work, completed only last week, for love of the earth in a season of bright skies and warmer winds. It's Wings's newest cuff, one wrought in the animating spirit of the season, and for love of the verdant greens of summer.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. It's now summer in this no-longer-new calendar year and facing complications and costs, some carried over from the end of last year, some all new, that have completely wiped us out. We need to make consistent sales urgently, so shares are very much needed and much appreciated.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.     

A little magic, somehow.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

The chickens have a secret path past the rocks, where the grasses and plants close over them until they come out the other side. And all this time, I never knew.

It's one of those funny things you notice that seems like a little magic, somehow — like summer was when we were kids, full of all kinds of wonderful possibilities. Fitting for June first, especially since this is day 3 of absolutely near-perfect start-of-summer weather.

::Sigh:: but we are not kids anymore, and we have to deal with everything the adult world throws at us, and right now, it's a lot.

We've gotten the latest of the medical stuff out of the way, although it's set us back several hundred dollars in cash . . . and set us up for several hundred more dollars in costs four weeks from now, and potentially several thousand thereafter.

But we have to do it. With our health issues, there isn't a choice. His, fortunately, are mostly maintenance at this point; mine are the ones that are threatening to bankrupt us. Again.

So. On top of the taxes, the chimney cleaning, the change in our Web hosting that I need to get set this weekend to change in the coming week, the need to replace my dying laptop, and all the other nonsense? Four figures' worth of medical bills coming up fast. Speaking of needing a little magic somehow . . . .

We've GOT to make sales now.  Desperately.  I need help; I can't do this alone.

I've put up a bunch of new work lately; there's more to come, including a new cuff probably tomorrow, and several new pairs of simple bezel-set gemstone earrings over the next few days. And as always, all the regular links are listed below. I've added some new items to the wish list; we're almost out of masks, and we both have to wear them in every interaction with anyone else; I've also found a hand soap that doesn't make my hands bleed, and while it's pricey, one bottle each in bathroom and kitchen lasts over a month apiece, even with how frequently we have to wash our hands given the work we do around here. But as always, sales are by far the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (apparently the FlexTape is also the priority now, so I'm told; otherwise, Amazon cards and the filters for the air purifiers); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim 2023, and with this year starting off MUCH worse (and given that we're already approaching the half-way mark), we really need to get 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                            

When the Water Comes, It's Medicine

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the waters of summer, across the land and from the sky, and for all the magic and promise these early days of the season hold. It's a cuff wrought in extraordinary traditional fashion, one to remind us of the truth that when the water comes, it's medicine, and our world is alive because of it.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. It's now summer in this no-longer-new calendar year and facing complications and costs, some carried over from the end of last year, some all new, that have completely wiped us out. We need to make consistent sales urgently, so shares are very much needed and much appreciated.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.