The Luxury Of Doing Art

You can only fully indulge in an artistic career 

if you are freed from the burden of having 

to earn a living for your own survival; 

never mind that of additional mouths to feed 

on top of every other bill that there is to pay...! 

Those who were born with the proverbial 

silver spoon in their mouth - 

those were given the freedom to pursue 

their wildest dreams ~ their greater 

aspirations... in arts or whatever else 

it may be ~ without constraints! 

Those are the lucky ones...

Or are they? 

It takes a fortune in order to make one as well 

~ and it is a greater treasure still 

when one finds oneself 

outside of all 

excessive material wealth! 

HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?


1. At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.

2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!

3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th)
than Target sells all year.

4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco +
K-Mart combined.

5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer.

6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.

7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep
in mind they did this in only 15 years.

8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chai ns sought bankruptcy
(including Winn-Dixie).

9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

10. Wal-Mart has approximately 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are
SuperCenters; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.

11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a
Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion).

12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.