Within these provocative blogs, you can look forward to finding:
• Creative anti-anxious techniques with sprinklings of medical jargon/mental health RN background.
• Examples of laughing at life’s persuasive detours away from the state of Calm.
• Pen and ink images validating the reality of Victoria’s Pen.
• Occasional recipes for all-important comfort foods—even with some gluten-free adaptations.
Speaking for a dental association convention in the 90’s the posted sign at my room read: “Dental Phobia and Anxiety”. We expected maybe 35 persons. Three hundred caused us to move to a larger area and I was later told another two hundred or so were turned away for lack of space. The speech was well received. Fueled by the class members’ positive responses, my desire to teach this subject professionally and personally continues today.
REFLECTIONS
Blogging, twittering and wiki-ing possibilities boggle my mind as they draw me into an updated communication realm. It seems so complicated to one who can easily press wrong buttons.
Wasn’t it easier to be a writer in the past? I mean, I can see myself 100 years ago (my mother has often said I should have been born then) in full-length dress, writing with an exquisite quill pen upon fine stationery supported by a highly polished Chippendale desk. Regularly dipping thoughtfully into the ink well, tediously producing letters with a single destination.
Nostalgia aside, in contrast, here I sit in the present day dressed in green sweats supported on an orange rubber ball, as I tolerate a computer’s glare and silent EMF transmissions. Relying upon high-priced cartridge ink, memory, spell-check and connecting network, to transform my too-many words and thoughts into short essays prior to their launch into cyberspace. Good grief, can anyone imagine using an antiquated typewriter?
Today being calm and untroubled is considered an art form with a need for hourly practice, rehearsals and eventual increasingly consistent presentation. How to stay in the moment, a method of calming the mind, is an accomplishment when mine wants to either race forward or jump back to recall stories? I’m even feeling anxious about my anti-anxious blog. Realization: a certain amount of anxiety accompanies creativity. That helps.
SERIOUSLY SPEAKING
Living within the boundaries of what was once the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, inspired my interest in searching WW II accounts for anecdotes depicting survival of the deepest forms of anxiety. A Polish flag hangs on the wall above my shabby sheik desk reminding me I am now home in America, ready to put my passion into regular blogs; reach out to those who will share my travels and travails.
My pen beckons with its continuous calling to live more fully by using words to capture life’s meaningful and magical moments. As the ink flows, you are invited to comment and add to its postings. Next blog will be Housecleaning Anxiety.
