Changes

Well there are a few categories that are slightly lacking as of late,
But I’ve decided to add a new category to the blog,
‘Thought Questions’
Short one phrase questions that are meant to get you thinking.
We’ll see how this takes off and goes.
Any feedback would be amazing.
I’m always trying to improve what goes on in here, writing style, writing skills.
Finding out what others like reading also helps a lot.

Occupy Wall Street.

I only had patience to scroll till May but they plan on being there for… Awhile. This is they’re website if you want to see what’s going on and keep up with the happenings. Occupy Wall Street website.
If you don’t know what’s happening FIND OUT.
This is important and sadly it’s not being covered by any major new’s channel. Yet.
Americans are standing up for our right’s in a peaceful protest on Wall Street and other cities in the US. Don’t fall behind on the times. Make sure you’re seeing what’s going on in our country. The goal, to start over from the ground up. If only that would/could happen. Who knows what will happen in the time to come, but it will be interesting to see.

Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.
“We are unions, students, teachers, veterans, first responders, families, the unemployed and underemployed. We are all races, sexes and creeds. We are the majority. We are the 99 percent. And we will no longer be silent,” read a post on the Occupy Wall Street website.

The  protests started on Sept. 17. On Friday, about 1,500 demonstrators took their protest to the New York Police Department headquarters.
The demonstrators, who are speaking out against corporate greed and social inequality, say they have been unnecessarily roughed up by police.
“The protesters are protesting against people who make $40,000 to $50,000 a year who are struggling to make ends meet. That’s the bottom line,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stated.
The protests have spread across the country, with events popping up in Boston, Chicago and dozens of other cities across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.

A march and rally was held in Boston Friday called “Take Back Boston” run by the Right to the City alliance, a national organization that “seeks to create regional and national impacts in the fields of housing, human rights, urban land, community development, civic engagement, criminal justice, environmental justice, and more,” according to its website.

Police estimated about 3,000 people attended the events Friday.

“We are targeting Wall Street, in particular the big banks and corporations,” Rachel Laforest of Right to City Alliance, told ABC. “The goal is to create a national narrative and have it be known how the states are taking state revenues that are being funneled to banks and corporations and then you layer on top of that the fact that they’re not obligated to pay their fair share of taxes, and so that’s billions and billions of dollars that could be put toward job creation and creating solutions to the housing crisis.”

There is so much more that’s going on, their now getting backing by major labor unions (with millions of dollars). And it is most definitely getting noticed, which is amazing. I would LOVE to be part of this and sadly I’m in that 99% not 1% I have to keep my job, and now the only thing I can do is try to bring awareness, of everything that’s going on (meanwhile trying to keep myself informed).
But really how exciting is this?  History in the making. And the best part is instead of Americans just sitting around like always, there are people out there actually trying to do something. Now to get the backing of all 99% of those underpaid Americans going up against that 1% shouldn’t be to difficult right? *cough cough* I know their more powerful than we know. But baby steps is what it takes.

 

The Benefits Of Listening To Music.

The benefits of listening to music are :

1) Change your mood - Now I know personally I listen to music to keep from, snapping at, biting off of heads, and ultimately keeping myself sane (and out of jail).
I think I can safely say that we know from personal experience that music affects our bodies and our minds. Listening to music relaxes us, energizes us, comfort us, keeps us company, help us celebrated and even helps marks special occasions. I think I can also safely say that we know the music we like to listen to at any given time varies from person to person and situation to situation. It all depends on how I’m feeling and what I’m doing.
Music can boost effort, increase motivation and distract from comfort and agitation? That’s what I want…

2) Growing field of health care - There’s a growing field of health care known as music therapy, which uses music to heal. Those who practice music therapy are finding a benefit in using music to help cancer patients, children with ADD, and others, and even hospitals are beginning to use music and music therapy to help with pain management, to help ward off depression, to promote movement, to calm patients, to ease muscle tension, and for many other benefits that music and music therapy can bring. This is not surprising, as music affects the body and mind in many powerful ways.

3) Brain Waves - Strong beat can simulate brain waves to resonate sync with the beat. Energizing music can make your brain exercise longer and harder. It increases speed and workload capacity even after you’ve stopped listening … music with a strong steady beat can increase endurance, boost effort level, increase motivation and distract from discomfort and agitation.
Music with a prominent beat stimulates an increased arousal which overrides the effect of environmental distractions…repetitive beat produces a reduction in muscle tension, thus reducing hyperactivity… (there was) significant reduction in distractibility among students after being exposed to music. Short term memory was also beneficially affected by having to listened to music.

4) State of Mind - You may imagine different things while listening to songs. Music plays with your state of mind as the electrical energy generated by firing neurons creates brain waves. The music a person chooses to listen to can influence the waves’ frequency, and their state of mind.

5) Lowering Blood Pressure - It’s not only the mind that is influenced by music, the body also responds. Musical messages travel down the spinal cord, impacting the autonomous nervous system that regulates the heart rate, blood pressure, muscular activity, metabolism, and other vital functions…

And currently, with the amount of brain power I have after a full week, and it being late at night (with no music playing). This is about all I can come up with.  I know I’m slightly disappointed with how dry and boring this has turned out to be… But I’m trying to press through my writer’s block, and lack of time and energy. I’m sure it’s a brain bubble that will burst and I’ll have some great inspiring post here soon. Eventually. I hope.

Blogster

So this is going to be more of a blog, than a poem. I could put to poem bits and
pieces of what I’m thinking about. But I’d rather just write it this time…
I’m surrounded by so much inspiration and artistic opportunity, in my little getaway
by the sea.
This weekend I was able to leave my little apartment and getaway from having to hear
and deal with people. I’m not in a very good dealing with people mood. I will inform
you all, I’m tired from this last week of work. And there’s other things on my mind that
are close to my heart. So my fiance and I took the weekend away from the apartment, away
from all the noise, just do have some down time.

Right now I’m sitting outside, replacing music with the ocean, and birds.
Who knew even a crow could at one point sound nice?
I am surrounded by green, water and mountains. Everything is peaceful, no neighbors
making noise, no cars or traffic of any sort just me the birds and the water. Mmm.
It’s nice to be so relaxed and unstressed that just sitting here watching the wind
toy with tall grass is something that I am capable of doing! Without getting all fidgety.
I hope to remember moments like these throughout life, I think I’ve made a new goal for myself…
I don’t want to be so uptight with life that I don’t have the time, energy, or just plain simpleness
to sit and enjoy what I can see and hear going on around me…
I know this all seems so random and uninteresting but I so desire for others to see this picture I’m
trying to paint. Fade in music to my voice narrating.

Picture this;
An ocean side bluff, million dollar view of the ocean, beach about 75 feet down from where I’m sitting,
dangling my feet over the bluff, enjoying a nice hot cup of tea and bagel.
Man made noises are faint hardly even heard.
Everything is peaceful and calm, the ocean is smooth the waves are tranquil.
The birds are talking amongst themselves. It’s a cloudy day so it isn’t warm, the wind teases the grass around me.
Everything is. Hypnotizing.
While this is ongoing I’m having my own silent celebration, for things that are no more.
I know after the weekend I’ll be refreshed prepared and ready to face and deal with people all over again.
But for now I will enjoy myself…

Okay so I have 56 (57 now) posts up so far in the last month and a half, I want to know which one is your favorite (get a little feedback) and even possibly why. So you can either comment here, or go to the post itself and leave a comment!  Thanks a ton!

~Anna

Be Still

Life can sometimes be painful,
It can seem too much to bear.
The struggles are so disheartening,
Our hearts burdened with care.

The world carries on regardless,
Doesn’t stop just to hear us cry.
Everything has to keep moving.
Does anyone stop to ask why?

Why are we always so busy?
Why do we wear ourselves out?
It’s no wonder the low times hit us so hard,
And we cry out to God, and we shout.

I think the world is too busy,
We’ve forgotten how to be still.
We weren’t created with hearts and lives,
That God finds hard to fill.

What to do

So what do you do,

When that feeling deep inside of you,
Starts growing? starts building?
That sense of longing,
Of discontent.
That, ‘there must be more than this’ feeling?

What do you do when it pervades all your thoughts,
Keeping your mind prisoner,
Allowing you to think of nothing but ‘it’?
When you need to cry out for ‘it’
And yell about ‘it’,
But you’re not sure what ‘it’ looks like!

What do you do when you’re filled with the passion,
But the vision escapes you?
You know the need,
But not the answer,
And you aren’t sure you are even up to the challenge.
What do you do?

Hiding

Always happy and never a frown on your face,
No one knows the real you.
Why don’t you just be yourself?
What are you afraid of?
Is it really that hard to see the real you?
I know that everyday can’t be sunny,
There must be some days that may seem funny.
Bad things do happen to good people,
Just relax and let it all hang out.
Be yourself.

Internal Reflection

Cut down and worn away
are the pillars of your stability,
broken specs of rock and dust
that make you almost look human

If not for your reflection

You’ve been hiding someone
behind those doors
And they’ve been
pounding and tearing
and breaking apart
those walls,
Climbing into the very cauldron
of your conscience
And eating away
at your existence
fighting to be let
free.

I want to be found,
I want to see myself rise above.

Slump

You really don’t care,
you surely can’t dare,
and your house and your desk
look a dump.

When no one calls up
to go out for a cup
you recline in your chair
like a lump.

Your life has gone flat,
you’re verging on fat,
and you’d easily pass
for a grump.

Well, I’m in a slump
and you’re in a slump–
let’s go have some tea,
you and me.