Anisette Studio

Today’s caption: Just thinking! (I know that feeling! LOL)

Listening to Andre Bocelli. Lovely! I am very glad that both a course in music and the performance arts, were a part of my degree program. I did not have years of dance behind me but doing this class I went to performances I might not have, and I was a part of a class and learned dance. I had to choose my music and choreograph my own dance for my final grade. It was exhilarating to be a part of a group moving together performing steps. I will never forget it! It was a lot of work! I admired my fellow students very much!

The class in music was about all types of music and its origins. Something else I had always wanted to learn about. In my teenage years I started collecting classical music. This stem from having a grandmother who played the organ and piano, she played for the Portland Symphony Orchestra in Portland, Maine as a young woman. She went to the Westbrook Seminary riding the train down from Gorham and became a teacher, but once married was not allowed to teach in her day married women were not allowed to teach. Grandparents do influence us. I intend to be an influence!

Going for my degree I was also involved in a fencing class, so learned the basics. I had always wondered about what that would be like. It is a wonderful thing to have such experiences. Hob knobbing with others pays off!

My outlook began in high school where I was the first girl to get into Industrial Technology class. I thought I might become an architect back then. I learned to create houses plans, appliances or machinery as patterns. What a screw would look like and how it would fit, these things were drawn out. Sometimes I look back and I think how lucky I was. We had a Shakespear class, a logic class, drama class and a propaganda class. I am not sure if other schools offered such classes. I put together and Art Club finding all sorts of artsy students. After that they had art classes! I learned from doing things I could do anything I wanted to do, I just needed to put the work in and do it! I mentor some of my students so they too can gain this same confidence, again we can influence those around us by being examples. It is very rewarding!

I have always been interested in psychology, why people do what they do. And I have always wanted to help others. I created a group called the Parenting Connection. developing it to be different in that there was child care, a topic of discussion where the group could request someone to talk about a topic they were interested in such as child development. I was not a counselor myself, but I involved a counselor who did help people in the group. We had a buddy system, where people who trusted each other could get together so they did not feel alone in what they were experiencing. Sometimes it was helping people get out of abusive situations. Because of my group Parents Anonymous came from another state to look at my model. I was also invited to join the Penquis Abuse Counsel due to interest in my group. I encourage people to develop things themselves. find your support system. You need to be consistent, and accountable, honest with yourself and others. Trustworthy and have good communications skills to do such things as I have. Others will depend on you. That means being accountable, for your words and actions as well as holding others to that example by guidance, and example. This world we live in needs people to be creative.

We, these thoughts came so I will put them out there for others to think on. We all have a version of some things we wish to do, or think that would change things up!

It’s more like late afternoon here! No longer morning. Help grandkids out this morning. No more school! Not until fall!

Best of wishes! May love and laughter find you! Simply, Pejj