I'm sorry to inform - but i will not be continuing (at least for now) writing the Slice of Sacramento blog. I am currently under a great deal of stress - as so many of us are - due to the imminent lack of work. I'm spending almost all of my time looking for other employment opportunities.
That said, i will still be writing on this blog, If It Were Real, and will add the occasional post about local happenings.
I think it's a sad state of affairs that we spend the majority of our adult lives doing jobs that we don't love - or even like. Meanwhile our dreams drift further and further away. I was unforntunately born with a hefty dose of creativifty. People will not pay for a creative mind. Oh - there's a few high-end artists that manage to make it big. But for every successful - and by that i mean, they can pay their bills - artist, there are a million others who would starve if they had to rely on their art alone.
Yet - and this just nearly chokes me to death - a woman will pay $300 or more - for a freakin' hand bag! It's a dead cow's skin, ladies! Dyed to a nice shade of pink and garnished with a few fake baubles. For hundreds of dollars, you and millions of your lady friends can own one just alike. But art - a time-intensive, one-of-a-kind, personal creative endevour of love and passion - is discounted. Marked down to 50% off, 75% off, free for the taking! I just don't get it.
I am very sad.
"I think it's a sad state of affairs that we spend the majority of our adult lives doing jobs that we don't love - or even like. Meanwhile our dreams drift further and further away." - a clear concise statement, very well-said. In other words: shout it out sister! In fact the whole post states my feelings exactly.
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