I’m so tired right now I’m apparently going to sleep — I’m already in bed — before the sun sets. I was supposed to go to coffee tonight, the only social event on my calendar for a good, long time, but I just don’t feel up to it. And in two weeks my class starts. Every Thursday night, preventing my attendance of future coffees. But maybe I’ll learn how to sell my art.
God, I ought to be creating; why am I so … melancholy?
I can re-create some of my t-shirt designs in a more time and cost effective way now, though how to market them is a bit of a conundrum to me, since my preference and budget is for one-off, custom shirts rather than bulk-produced, one-design-for-all shirts. For example, the first design I made easy to mass-produce (where ‘mass’ here means dozens, not hundreds or millions) was “my favorite color is green,” which I currently have printed on an orange shirt that I wear, but which I made extensible such that I can print the phrase in a variety of colors, on the color shirt you want, and change out the final word between your choice of “red” “green” “blue” and “black” – though I wouldn’t print “red” on a red shirt, “green” on a green shirt, or “blue” on a blue shirt… and have already begun testing printing “my favorite color is black” in black ink on a black shirt. If you want one, let me know what colors, what size, and we can work out a price that’s fair. To give some sense of what I think a fair price for a handmade shirt is, I could make you the black/black/black shirt for, say, $16 (plus shipping, if need be).
And then, hide anything personal behind “the fold” where no one will notice it, right?
If you could be honest with me
would you admit
you want me
to break
everything
apart,
you want
me
no
matter
what?
would you admit
you don’t care about your
better
judgement
as much as
you care about
love?
would you admit love?
you could be honest
you could be
with me
Here we go. Again, from The National Archives Experience (at archives.gov), we have the full text of the Bill of Rights (which is to say, the first ten amendments to the US Constitution). Again, I encourage you to see exactly what it has to say about God and religion, with careful consideration of Christ’s place in what our founding fathers put into law.
The following, copied and pasted from The National Archives Experience (at archives.gov), is the full text of the US Constitution as it was originally written.
I’m putting it here, so you can hit Ctrl-F (or equivalent function to find a particular word or phrase in the body of the text) and count how many times God and religion, more specifically Jesus and Christianity, are mentioned in the US Constitution. I recommend, of course, that you read the entire text of the document, so that you can understand the full context of what I’m trying to get across to you here.
I’ll put the Bill of Rights, which is to say the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, in my next post so you can examine it as well.