This is part of a continuing series intended, not so much to solicit donations, as to ask for social media (and word-of-mouth) shares to spread the word further about our friends Aji and Wings’ efforts to build an actual adobe house, rather than remain much longer in the 30-year-old RV with faulty wiring and outdoor water hoses that freeze solid in winter, that has been their makeshift home since their manufactured house was repossessed six years ago. If you’d like more details on the backstory, please see this diary. If you are wondering who Aji is (since she’s been unable to post here for some time because of bad-technology issues), you might check out her past work here. If you do, you’ll note that, apart from Native American news and issues, her most frequent topic was asking help for other people. That’s why so many of us want to support her now.
Below the fold, I’ll share more photos of the good progress that’s been made recently on the house’s first floor, along with all the pertinent links to help you share (and donate if you are so inclined). We notice that there’s some interest among the followers of Saturday Morning Home Repair in adobe construction methods, so we’ll try to keep you caught up. (This group’s diaries have the whole series of photos.)
The overall total here is a big ask, and yet, it’s not the full amount that’s needed to do this — just the amount that they can’t afford to carve out of what Wings earns through sales of his silverwork and photography, which also pay all the other bills and expenses. We’ll share how to browse and buy from him below as well.
If you cannot afford to donate, you absolutely should not. If you yourself are in a bind and need help, I urge you to ask someone to help you present your needs here. We are liberals and we support our community the best we can. I don’t know when I’ve seen a longtime community member not get some help here when it’s needed. If you can pay for your expenses your own self, but it makes you so cranky that someone else is asking for help that you shame them in an open thread, please be like that somewhere I don’t have to see it. Not here would be a good start.