Sex Barrier (Let's Abolish It)

I'm asking you. Listen to me. The curse words I'm holding in my brain are evil enough to shake nations, and make people faint. I'm angry. Why can't women have as equal opportunity as men? What did we do to be made fun of, discriminated, and reduced to next to nothing (at times) ? I'd like to know. Back in the day, women had to fight. You expected us all to be barefoot and pregnant. Holding us back from the desires of the world, was all you did.


We fought long and hard. Eventually we were allowed to be involved in other professions besides homemaking, nursing, teaching, or secretarial work. 


Now we have 18 year old boys making fun of and calling little 6 year old girls who are trying to learn how to skate "Tina Hawk." There are husbands out there, who are professional "wife beaters." The man calls himself, the king of the household. If the woman leads the house, she's known as a bossy bitch and wretch. At the alter, a couple is referred to "Man and Wife." It's like you are stripping the woman of her dignity as a woman. It's almost making it sound like she's a slave for the man to control. It's husband and wife. Learn it. 


Women should not be separated in sports. If a girl can play tackle football like a man, then she should be able to be on a major league team. We need more people supporting women's basketball. We don't need LeBron James' face everywhere. We need his face, and the face of a woman. Women are strong. We can play sports, fight hard, and grow families. We are much more than homemakers.


Women can kick backside. We've made excellent rights activists, artists, singers, actors, models, and so many other things. Not to say that men are inferior, they match us in acts of achievement. We need more recognition.  We need more women changing the world, along with an equal amount of men to do the same. A woman president? We need that. (I'm no liberal, but I think it would be great.) We've broken the color barrier. Why can't we break the sex barrier? 


We need to get young girls off the evil city streets and into classrooms. The same thing goes for young men. We need to educate these young minds, and make them into what they are destined for = greatness. For all we know, the children in the classrooms today could be the next George Washington Carver or Betty White. They could be the next people to influence, empower, or change a nation. A mind is a terrible thing to waste and color or sex should not determine if the mind should be put to waste. That choice is up to the owner of the brain. 


Do you understand, what I tried to teach you today? You better.


Sex should not be used as a discriminational tool. Women and Men are equal.

Holy Hyperlinks!

I swear, that when bloggers are struggling, we all struggle together. It's almost at this point where I believe we are all this connected family. We all struggle with similar things, and that is how we connect. 


Heather, needs our prayers this week, especially her husband Jon. (I think that Jon spelled "H-less-ly" is very cool.)


I'm sorry for being so "unstable" in writing these past 2 weeks. I've just had a lot of stress rolling out the gallery and I'm working on a lot of other things too. There is just a lot of pressure on my back right now.


I'm planning my comeback, tomorrow. So watch for it. 


I'm sure if you follow me on twitter, you know that I'm away. Coming back tomorrow, and tackling that list of stuff I need to do at my house (remember the one I mentioned, for human survival) will get me back into the swing of everything.


I have a little "surprise" coming later. It's no big deal. 


Stay tuned to my twitter, and you'll see when it is done.


Ta-Ta and Happy Blogging!

A Thought

I'd give my life, if I could walk with my father on the beach everyday. Each and everyday, just him and I. 

Gallery Of The Chang

Hey Guys. I know that I continually hint about this "project" that I am working on. Well, after a little over a months work, it's complete. On June 12th, I had an idea about making a portfolio of my artwork. People constantly come up to me and compliment my art, but I never think of my art as that big of a deal. It's something to keep my hands preoccupied from the evils of the world, it's not about the complements I get at all. The idea of a portfolio came about as a way to keep the people who are begging for more up to date with my current art projects. 


I thought it would be something easy, I could throw it together in a week and send it around to the people who are "begging for more" and just leave it be. Then, that feisty and creative "Julielightbulb" went off. I decided that I could put my Design/Web work in it, along with my illustrations, and photography. It could be a tool used to get some more design jobs. After that idea was formulated, another one flashed into my head = Etsy. I could sell my paintings, prints of my illustrations and photography work on Etsy. My next thought was "Let's Do this!"


I took this idea on, while finishing (I still am) my secondary education (long story.) Due to that, I decided to pull my most recent work and the things I could find easily and upload them to the Design/Web part of the site. (If you notice, there isn't much there and there are many things on External Harddrives that I need to upload, which I will do soon!) I did that with my photography and illustrations as well. That got those things taken care of in a somewhat timely matter. Then, the painting began. I've been painting since I was young and I have sketchbooks filled to the brim with ideas that I claimed I never had time to complete on a canvas. The problem was, that I didn't make anytime for it. 


I've been making time to paint everyday of the week. I'm only on the computer for an hour a day, now. I haven't been this at ease or happy before in my life. I'm finally content with the direction of my life, thanks to $70 some dollars in paint and loads of canvases littering my house. I pulled the abstracts from my sketchbook and the others I made on a whim. I am content with every part of Gallery Of The Chang except for the paintings and illustrations. The paintings don't show my best work and in coming weeks I plan to add more paintings that show my artistic flair better. The illustrations are really recent and were made to appeal to the young person and mommy to be crowd..... (they scream cute + animals... so yeah.)


So, this is my project. The project that took a little over a month and really got me to think about my life as a whole. Art is a growing experience and it's changed me so much. Now, that it's launched I'm taking a week to relax and plan the next steps of actions for all of the "things" I'm working on. I think this year of my internet ventures is going to be the best, I honestly do. My house looks like an office and an art studio blew up into it. My office needs to be renovated.


Along with the "things I'm working on" there is now a list of things in my personal life that need to get done in order for survival. (oh, if I shared with you people the stories of my personal life like I used to, the ones of the few past months would knock your socks off.) 


Check out, GalleryOfTheChang.com and GalleryOfTheChang.Etsy.com  Thank you for your extended support in all of my projects. Click here to see the video announcement.....

This song has been the drive, ambition, and the soundtrack to this project.

	Radiohead - Where I End And You Begin .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

Slow Down (Enjoy Life)

You. You are going. You are going fast. You are going oh so fast. Everyone, all of you. You are all, spinning out of control. Like spinning plates, you move out of control without end. Running, sprinting, walking, and moving - it's all going to fast. Pretending to having a busy schedule, when you have next to nothing to do. Taking your "To Do List" to extremes. Stressing out because you can't do something as fast as someone else. 


In your office, you are on your blackberry all day. You are always running around to meetings and you never know what they are about. Looking at your blackberry, you leave en route to your next meeting. On the way a woman on the sidewalk falls over. You keep on running to another meeting and you ignore her. After the meeting, you get in your car and commence the drive home. On the freeway you exceed the speed limit because you are so concerned about getting home before your husband does. I wonder what his reaction was when you walked in the house with your 3rd speeding citation this year...


Later that day, your daughter asks you to play Candy Land. It's 7PM and you are exhausted and falling asleep on the couch. You tell her you are tired and you shout expletives at her. 


50 years from now, your little girl is a mom with 3 children. She didn't want to care for you, so she placed both you and your husband in a cheap home. She pays your bills, but she never comes to see you. She calls you once a year, talks to you for 10 minutes, and tells you all about how busy she is. However, now that you are older, you understand that she isn't really busy. Society is magnifying everything and forcing her to live the "rush, rush" lifestyle. 


Sitting in a home, a place that you can't even call your own, you are pondering something. It's a mere wish, a wish that you will carry with you even after death. "I wish I took time to slow down and enjoy life. If I did, maybe I wouldn't be in this place, and maybe my daughter would have had a heart." 


Slow down and enjoy life, because it is short. Do not waste such a precious gift away...