Heading into ART for my senior income efforts

 

Every day seems long.  And they all blur into the same thing.

I have so many things on my lists of things to do, sort through, find, downsize, etc.  I worry I will die before I can get to them.

I have been thinking a LOT about what to do for the time I have left.  That also involves letting go of the things I can't really do anymore.  It's a hard place to be.  We want to finish all those dreams we had during our lives, but we don't have the strength, the health, or the funds to finish them.  

I have said this before, as I have been going through this retirement planning, but revisiting my ART goals seems to be the best option for me.  I have seen this for a long time, but I didn't want to commit to just art.  Art is a very subjective activity.  Everyone who buys art has a different idea of what they like.  I am not sure there will be buyers for my kind of creativity.  :-)

This year's plan to use up the supplies I have collected to do my various art and crafting projects is really pushing me.  I am finding space I didn't have before and starting to get things done.  I still need to list some real (original crafted) items for people to buy and see what happens.  There are still issues to overcome, but I am working on the problems.

I found my ETSY About statement again.  It has made me think about what has happened over the past several years and how I got to where I am now.  I started with POD (Print on Demand) because I didn't need to have inventory space.  I somehow ended up without any real crafted products to sell.  I want to change that.   

I will still do some POD products, especially my logo mug, because they are very important.  When I can, or when I die, those products will be owned by Working Together to help it with income options.  This was the original plan.  

I probably need a lawyer to help me get it all legally figured out.  For my part, I may have to list everything for Working Together at the EBAY shop I created for it.  It's the only site I have where I could list things to sell... maybe.  I do have a Facebook page for WT, and a fiverr.com site, but those are for different parts of the WT space online.  Maybe one of the blogs I have for WT would work with the PayPal account I have for Working Together.  What I am learning for my own income needs may work for the sites I have already started for Working Together.  --  Any suggestions are welcome.  Please use the comments for them.

Whatever GOD planned for Working Together will happen, it just isn't what I thought He would do.

I hope you will follow my ETSY shop so you will get a notification of when I list new items.  It will help me and Working Together if you can purchase my items.  Please think about it.  Right now, the best item to purchase would be the digital version of my writing called SERVANTS.  Share the five allotted copies with people you love who are Christian.  It is a very good way to remember our place in God's Kingdom.

Well, I'm planning to post here more often, as I have something to say, or share, or promote.  I will also be updating the Working Together website soon.  I want to put links back up for this blog and maybe some other spaces.

This is a very important election year and the future of every Christian in at stake.  I hope GOD will protect us and help us to win the battles we face for America, ourselves, and the world.  The global approach to all our life needs is quickly becoming the status quo.

PRAY!  We desperately need GOD's help.

In Christ,

Deborah Martin

https://work2gather.us 

IT'S EARTH DAY! What can you do to save our planet?

 

I made a new design just to post today.  You can see it is a simple one.  :-)  It is a start.  

Earth Day is important because it brings our attention to the fact we only have one planet, and we depend on it for every life that exists here.

I won't say I agree with the CLIMATE CHANGE mantra/s, but I do believe we have had a part in hurting the world we need to survive as people.

Pollution is a cause of many of our problems, but I think Big Money has taken our focus off of the destruction pollution has done and is doing to our lives.  I look for information on pollution and recycling/reusing just to keep up with what is going on.  I don't see much information on radiation, plastics, chemicals, medical waste, sewage spills or waterways being used as a sewage option, in the news.  A healthy planet is an important part of our survival.  

Something is causing our water sources to dry up.  Within the Earth is a place where our water is stored.  During the Flood, God opened the "great waters."  I once saw a photo from space of the United States and noticed a giant swirl that looked like a water drain.  It was in the place of a multi-state aquifer so I tend to think that our nation, our "breadbasket," may have been where it was located.  God warned us that there will be droughts and famines in the End Times.  It could have something to do with the water that is stored underground.   

Air, Water, Food... no one survives without them.  That is the theme of my other Earth Day creation.  Their importance is in that order.  I heard it called "The Rule of Threes."  Three minutes without AIR, three days without WATER, and three weeks without FOOD - we cannot survive without them.  

Add in all the chemicals we have discovered and used for generations now.  Fuel, oil, fertilizers....

All those poisonous fertilizers we put on our food plants seeps down into the ground.  It kills good bugs as well as bugs that want to survive by eating the food we want.  It contaminates our water sources below the ground.

I also discovered the SUN is expanding.  Some predict it won't affect us for a long time, but I would like to remind everyone that only GOD knows the details.  I also don't think our governments would tell us if there was a greater danger.

I think an expanding sun will affect the entire solar system.  It could be the reason there is a "hole" in the atmosphere - not CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), cow farts, sodas, and other sources.  We have no idea how intricate our solar system is.  If a solar flare can affect us, the expanding of the Sun can also affect us.

Planting trees is my solution to helping the Earth get better.  It is an easy thing to do, anyone can plant a tree, plant tree seeds, plant any green living thing.  Gardens probably apply to this project.  Flowers, bushes, and beautiful lawns too. 

 

I have considered the need to build small forests on flat land, for cattle to shelter under in winter, or other livestock.  Feeding hay in winter is a newer process, I think.  I don't know what they did in the time when Jesus was alive, so this is just my idea for becoming more self-sufficient and less burdened by the costs of growing hay for winters.  Wild animals survive winter.  I think livestock should be able to survive it as well.

I also don't think it helps the animals to eat corn instead of hay... but, that's me.  I have big issues with GMO foods.

I have watched different things over the years about livestock becoming healthy within weeks of changing to organic feed and getting sick again if they had to eat GMO feeds again.  This wasn't just cows.  I think it applied to pigs and other farm animals too.  There is something seriously wrong with the way our farming has "progressed."

We have no idea what GMO foods do to our bodies or the bodies of the animals we eat, or the plants we eat.  We also have little choice in the matter.  The most impacting information I discovered about this topic was a documentary that shared animals who ate the leftover stalks of GMO crops (in another country where poor farmers trusted the companies that brought the option of growing GMO food to them) died because of it.  The poison from the process (Round Up, I think) was in the plant... it is what kept the bugs away.  It seemed to me that if it was in the stalk, it was in the part that was harvested.  That is scary to me.

I remember the big controversy at the beginning of GMO crops, in Oregon, was the destruction they did to neighboring fields, often organic.  The pollen cannot be controlled.  We may lose all of our organic and heirloom food sources over time.  

GMO foods will be a huge issue in the future.

What can we do to save our planet?  

I hope we do a lot more than we have been doing, from a government position and as individuals.

I should add that I watched one or more videos about the government beginning to use conservancy as a way to control what is grown and what is not.  I am sure the words organic will be attached somehow, but the idea that the government will control all of the food sources one day is frightening, especially in America.

The government currently focuses on GMO foods, and has for a long time.  It is how they became legal so fast.  The idea is the amount of food produced, not the health of the food or the people/animals who eat it. 

We have already heard that government wants digital currency so it can control what people are allowed to buy.

It's a scary future because people who hate GOD and don't know what the Bible tells us are in charge.  People like this make choices for different reasons than believers would, often for money or power.

PRAY for all of us.

In Christ,

Deborah Martin

https://work2gather.us

Voting for America's Future

The battles for control of our country, and the world, get pretty tough.  Unfair attacks are what irritate me.  Like the gay community suing cake makers, and people who would do the same thing suing Trump for trying to keep an affair quiet.  It becomes public "news" to create fear, to control everyone who hears it, and get their way.  

In Truth, these efforts destroy our nation and take us away from the problems that are truly important for our national survival.  We are crumbling under the weight of so many issues it will be a miracle if we survive and rebuild.  

I am sharing this design today because the next election is probably the most important election we have ever faced... more important than the last election.

We are a struggling nation because of our debt loads - national, state, and personal.  

The Democratic Party is a symbol of taxation to provide government programs that become the authority for the things we need to survive... Life, Death, Housing, Food, Medical, Education, Transportation, Phones, Internet, Public Safety, Military... what else can I name?!  The government says they need the ability to control in order to do the job.  We trust them so we let them get bigger and bigger and bigger until we can't change back to what we use to be - Free.  

I exist because I am on the government's payroll in one way or another.  I don't want it to be like that, but I haven't been able to get out of this cycle.  

If I had a minimum wage job, I would still need a government program to exist.  Mandated Healthcare premiums would be impossible for me to afford after paying taxes, housing costs, food, utilities, monthly living needs like toilet paper and laundry supplies, some kind of transportation option, and personal needs.  I would still be poor, still be dependent on what the government might provide.

The unexpected expense is what always destroys anyone with a tight budget.  

For me that might be losing money to bank fees (which are very high now) when a bill collector attacks my account trying to get their money.  My budget is small, I don't have credit cards, and it takes enormous struggle to save any money.  Every loss is huge.

For the government it could be a natural disaster or act of terrorism.  The bridge in Baltimore is an example.  Winter ice storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, protests and riots -- they all affect the budget -- and require unplanned spending.  

If you don't have a reserve fund to cover these events, they can destroy your life.  You end up losing everything and have to start over again, from nothing.  We don't have reserve funds, emergency funds, or any funds that could be used for unexpected events that require money... as a nation or as individuals.

I don't know if the Republicans would act any better, they have their own list of things they want to control, but the path they want to go doesn't include the government being the only authority in charge, the only source for every need.

 

I watched a short video about New York tonight.  In a huge urban space like New York there is no space to expand.  It is thick with buildings and people and needs.  This video was just about the problems trash removal causes, and the city's inability to deal with it.  They don't have the money to pick up their trash and keep the streets clean.

I have also seen how trash (and sewage) is dealt with in poor countries.  Mostly it's the poor that have to live with their trash, filling their water sources, contaminating everything, causing diseases and death.  BUT, where would they build the systems they need to take care of water, trash, sewage?  They live in "thick" urban spaces, too.  Who would pay for these needs?

The point is it takes money to build the important parts of communal living.  But where should it come from?  Only taxes?  Only business?  Only government?  What is the limit of government?  What is the limit of businesses?  What is the responsibility of the people?  And how does government keep private business from abusing the people to make money?

These seem to be the same battles we fight over and over again... because people don't always do what is right.

How can we protect ourselves from the government?  That was the goal of the Founders of our nation... they were trying to keep the people safe from tyrants and dictators and greedy rulers.

It looks like Trump and Biden may be our only choices in November.  We have to choose one of them to become our next leader.  I don't want a country that looks like the Democratic Party plan.  I think our only hope is the Republicans.

I hope you will think about this election and what America needs to survive.  Use your vote wisely.