Stop The Bullying – Stop the Violence – Stop the Abuse – Stop the Silence

Stop the Bullying – Stop the Violence – Stop the Abuse  – Stop the Silence!

Here I set at my desk Sunday night excited for more then one reason.  One we are facing my daughter bringing new life into the world in just about 18 weeks, and my birthday is in just about 5 weeks.  So, with these two celebrations of life in the horizon I figured it would be a great time to start a campaign to take a project I have been working on to the next level.  I am very passionate about Educating others on Bullying in society.  It isn’t just in the school yard anymore.  1 in every 3 students have suffered from some form of bullying. 

Yet, sadly many parent still take the outlook that “kids will be kids”.  I want to bring light on this very serious topic! I want to make these parents and others realize that it isn’t just a case of “kids being kids” that it is harassment, abuse, and yes sometimes, way to often, violence!

It also isn’t just in the school yard as stated above, it is on the phone, on the internet, the malls, in our homes, on our streets, etc.   Plus, it isn’t just children, it is adults too and our elderly.  It is time we educate those who are turning a blind eye or just don’t understand. It is time to make a difference for our children and for humanity herself!

Help make it happen for Stop the #Bullying #Violence #Abuse & Silence! on at Indiegogo http://t.co/6v4akZDc1a

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“Kill The Zombie”

“Kill The Zombie”

“Kill The Zombie”

I read today that the show Walking Dead has a saying: “Fight the Dead Fear the Living” This partly what inspired this digital enhanced Photograph.

Zombies can only be killed by burning them or cutting of their heads, or so I have been told. So, with in the photo I am burning the zombie. Yet, he is reaching out to me with pain in his eyes, begging me to stop. How could this be possible? I have always been told Zombies have no brain. I have always believed, that with no brain they can not feel pain, they can not think, they can not beg for mercy! They are an abomination! They must be cleansed from this Earth!

Wait! What if a Zombie has feelings? What if when you went to burn s/he begin to beg you to stop that the fire burned him/her because s/he truly did feel the pain from the fire? Then what?

This was my take on this digital photo, for those who Bully others and Gay Bash do so because they are ignorant! They do so because of “What they have been told” “What they believe”…those who are ignorant to diversity around them or to the fact that those who are gay are no different then anyone else except that they love another of the same gender.

Those who bully or gay bash truly go on “what they believe” because of what they have been told through the church, by their family, or through gossip, etc. Then they react out of fear, hate, ignorance – they cause pain and do it with a deaf ear, a blind eye to that which is being told to them by the one they are hurting..

So, this is how I came up with the idea for my digital enhanced photo.

Lets work together to Stop the silence…Stop bullying and gay bashing….think for yourself…learn that we are all the same human beings who are diverse people living on the same Earth. Lets find peace!