Castle In The Sky - digital art by Cricket Diane C Phillips

Castle in the Sky - digital art by cricket diane c phillips - 2008

Angel Song - photo collage by Cricket Diane C Phillips

Angel Song - photo collage by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2008

Castle Diana - computer digital fantasy art by Cricket Diane C Phillips

Castle Diana - computer art using Bryce - by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2008

Lady and the Tiger - photo collage by Cricket Diane C Phillips

Lady and the Tiger - photo collage by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2008

Escher Revisited digital photo collage art by Cricket Diane C Phillips

Escher Revisited - digital photo collage art by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2008

Diane’s World - digital photo collage original art by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2008

Diane's World - 2008

Warrior Princess Original Artwork by Cricket Diane C Phillips

Warrior Princess - Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2000

America doesn’t have a plan that will work - Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2008

What I’ve noticed about the United States lately -
Cricket Diane C “Sparky” Phillips
09-09-08
Georgia Cricket

There isn’t a plan. That is a problem. It doesn’t matter if the Republicans get the job or the Democrats, there isn’t a real, workable comprehensive plan to solve the problems that are pressing. What we do have, is a lot of bickering, grand-standing and glad-handing to special interests, whether the teachers’ union or the oil companies.

Unfortunately, where there is a great amount of “what is broken” information now - but the actual plans being offered to solve these problems and issues are either already in use, already tried or already failing to do the job. These methods offered by specialists and experts, politicians and pundits, government officials and business leaders are all elements of plans that have created the problems thus far.

This means at a very basic level, we don’t have a plan that will work. None of them do and if there were any opportunity to create one that will work, it won’t be approached as a process because those in a position to do so are going to rely on things that already don’t work, but are known. These are the solutions being offered now by both sides.

Notes About Creating A Business In America - 2008 - Cricket Diane C Phillips

Here I am with a product that I’ve created. Its in a tangible form. It was listed on Ebay this last week and barely seen by anyone. This could be in stores. It would bring a smile to the face of customers and may keep them from being robbed at some point.

If nothing else, it could make money for me and for the stores selling it. This is the right timing for this product and it is distinctive - it has personality and character. It could easily be offered for the right price with a small profit. There are a number of retail store categories that could appropriately carry it.

So, now what?

To Publishers - blocked

To Trade Mart Stores - blocked

To Angel Investors - blocked

Directly To Market - blocked

To Retail Store Buyers - blocked

To Sell Rights To Someone Else To Use - blocked

To Promote It - Not blocked, but how?

To Sell Online - Online Availability - Not blocked by Fact, but Unseen for the multitude of info there

So, therefore - what possibilities truly exist whether I have a unique, sales-worthy product or not?

Written by Cricket Diane C “Sparky” Phillips, 09-03-08

“If I had known that the only contribution allowable to me because I am a woman would be to clean the floors under the feet of my family and wash their clothes - I wouldn’t have bothered to learn calculus or business or physics.

If I’d known there will never be any money from any business I might create, would I have ever tried to create anything or worked so hard to learn how to make it work as a business? Probably not.

But, isn’t the truth of it that my efforts have proven it doesn’t work for me? Apparently the access available and the things I’ve studied from books for accessing the marketplace with products are blocked to me. That means that no matter what I write, it won’t ever be published in a book. I can create products distinguished and unique every day of my life and never see them making a profit for me. And, until I die in poverty, I will have lived in poverty each and every one of the days in my life.

Now, why didn’t they just tell me it would be that way when I was going to school? Wouldn’t it have been simpler to say to me that I would never have the opportunities available to men including value as anything besides the person to clean up after everyone?

Why didn’t the teachers and clergy and others just tell me that the world doesn’t need anything created by a woman and won’t pay anything for it if it is created by a woman? And, that I would have to work many times harder to make many times less for anything I might do because as a woman, society considers that to be okay?

Certainly not everything I create is ‘good enough’ to make it in the marketplace. But, some of it is and there is no reasonable access to bring it to the marketplace to find out if it would do well or not. That means, the truth about America is not that it is a land of opportunity but rather that it is not, except to those already positioned and in the right ‘class’ to accomplish it.

I am horrified to think about the forty some odd years wasted in the pursuit of this, the learning and re-learning after brain injury, the obscenely abusive relationships I’ve survived and all along there was no real chance of anything I’ve worked to do or to create actually making a living for me.

What kind of America is that? And, why couldn’t the teachers and society during my lifetime have simply told me it was like this? Why was I taught that every individual is valuable and has the opportunity to bring good things to the world, to make a living from their talents, to make a contribution to the world? Since apparently the considered basis for determining what are delusions of grandeur are those very things - why would anyone have taught me that bunch of shit?”

Written by Cricket Diane C “Sparky” Phillips, 09-03-08

A thought from last year - on fixin stuff - Cricket Diane C sparky Phillips - 2008

How To Fix Yer Own Durn Car & Other Thangs Tools R Good Fer -
Cricket Diane C “Sparky” Phillips, 2007, 2008

1.  If you cain’t git to it - bang it with a hammer.

2.  If it still rolls - it ain’t broke.

3.  Concrete blocks are your friend. If it needs a lift - it needs a concrete block. This ain’t hard to figure out.

4.  Don’t put the concrete blocks on a hill unless you wanna learn to do body work.

5.  If you forgot and put them blocks on a hill - Bondo is your friend. (At least till you gotta sand it.)

6.  When somebody tells you where you can git it fixed real reasonable - say, yeah, you can and keep on working on it yerself. Borrow their tools while they’re there being so helpful.

7.  When you git to the part you don’t know - check to see if anybody’s looking . . .