When Jemma (pictured above) has strong emotions coursing through her little body, like when she’s playing hard or when she’s purring loud with love, her eyes turn a green blue like the turquoise in the feather earrings by her paw.
Turquoise doesn’t come in just blue, but it comes in a range of blues and greens, some clear in colour or some with complex or simple matrices. As also seen in Jemma’s eyes.
These are the earrings that were a special order to Wings:
Birds and feathers have been a part of my entire being since I was a child when I used to dream of flying , not as a human, but as a bird — always flying amidst the trees and wings touching the sky and feeling the wind under them.
While I described what I wanted to Aji, and who then conveyed to Wings, and to please choose turquoise stones for the earrings, I didn’t know they’d reflect the same shade of blue-green that Jemma’s eyes change into from time to time.
At the tip of the feather are bluer stones of turquoise, like what you would see when the sky is clear and blue.
That blue is what I see when I think of home under a sky. Wings and Aji’s new home. The wide open sky sheltering them and blanketing them with love and protection, and a sky in which Grandfather, eagles and winged friends fly free.
You can find Wings site here. I urge you to go through it, read the daily blog. This month (which ends in five short days) there has been a daily flash sale, marking down a different item of the day by 20%.
This past week has been a difficult one for our beloved friends. There was a death of a close family member. Building could not resume until yesterday, but oh, the progress they made.
As always, you can check Aji’s blog site for daily updates or for news of sales or new silver creations by Wings. Building a home is expensive, but the costs they are incurring are small in relation to what you could buy on the market. They need help with this to end their homelessness of over six years.
Here’s how you can help:
HOW TO HELP
- The YouCaring fundraiser allows you to donate specifically to this cause. You can also share the fundraiser via social networks by using the “Grab Our Widget” button (and other social media buttons) on that page.
- Their Amazon wishlist mostly supports the health needs of their rescue animals and themselves, if that’s more your style.
- Purchases from Wings Silverworks will help them make a living the way they’d prefer, by selling Wings’ work as an exceptionally talented NDN silversmith and photographer.
- If you prefer, donate via PayPal at Aji’s blog, or at her Tumblr blog where she posts her own writing and photography.
- Kosmail belinda ridgewood if you absolutely need to donate by mailing a paper check.
- And Tweet, share on FaceBook, tip/rec/republish on Daily Kos, randomly email your friends about it, drop it into casual conversations. This seems minor, but it is not! When you share, please link to this YouCaring page, or embed the widget!