A = Anxiety

Anxiety it's where I live at the moment. Life is moving so fast with so many projects. I almost missed the A to Z challenge sign up!

Here are some medical links for those of you who have real anxiety.
http://www.adaa.org/finding-help/treatment

http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/anxiety-panic-guide-treatment-care
Helpful links:

http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/natural-medicine/aromatherapy/aromatherapy-stress-relief.htm
http://www.prevention.com/mind-body/natural-remedies/how-massage-helps-depression-and-anxiety/

I have the kind of anxiety called too many projects and looming deadlines. ;)

Take Time to Smell the Roses

Blogging

After a break from blogging, I found that the practice is considered to have the potential to create a cooperative learning environment. The bits of writing focused on a subject or none to push forward critical thinking. The return should be great fun... if I could only remember my passwords.

Examiner Writer

When I get the opportunity to write about Disney, it's a real treat.

Regular posts about the happenings at Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure are available at

http://www.examiner.com/disney-california-in-los-angeles/kate-o-mara

Peter and the Wolf

It isn't the first time that I've had the profound realization that music has a special power. 

Music makes people smile. 
Music makes people cry. 
It can raise emotions to anger or motivate a nation to patriotic fervor for the good of human rights or to the decimation of war. 

But today, a regular day with nothing notable to it, a song came on the radio as I drove up the street to my favorite coffee place to have tea. Not really a conformist no matter how hard I try. 

Anyway, as I punched the buttons through the commercials I came to the classical station and there, just beginning was the symphony, Peter and the Wolf. Instantly, I was transformed to a 7 year old girl sitting on my Dad's lap as he identified the different instruments; narrating as the music progressed. Until my imagniation took over and I watched as Peter hunted for the Wolf. 

What wondrous power music has to melt the years away, and what a wonderful piece of music to do it