Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Week 26 – And The Winner Is…. Creative Courage Challenge


“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”  ~Dale Carnegie

As we have learned over the weeks, courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear.  Creative Courage is to be strengthened and developed by doing the things that we fear,  taking us out of our immediate comfort zone to stretch and grow.
Sometimes though, when working as Artists and Creatives we need to not push too hard, because face it…unless it’s something wewant to do, or at least sounds fun, it’s a challenge for us either way!  We’ve been working hard – hopefully – on building our creative courage, this week it’s time to do something fun!  This week, we are going to ENTER A CONTEST!! No, not a wet t-shirt contest, or drinking contest…although we could probably do both of those in the same place, we are going to do something a little different.  It would be wonderful if it was a contest that was related to your Artistic or Creative Endeavors, but ANY contest will do! Let’s all try to channel a bit of Barney Stinson and accept all challenges!
In our Week 26 we are going to search, seek out and find a contest that makes us happy, brings us joy, and challenges us just a bit so that it’s still a happy fun week!  Try a Baking Competition, Writing Challenge, Stand Up Comedy, Design Competition, Poster Contest, Post-It Contest, Photo Contest, Gardening Contest, Air Guitar Competition, Dirty Apron Contest, Rock Climbing, Arm Wrestling, Chili Contest…and if you really can’t figure out something in line with your specific creative endeavors… try pie eating contest or even a sweepstakes.  It doesn’t matter what it is as long as it makes your heart race with excitement and creates intrigue in your mind.  If it scares you just a bit and you accomplish it – extra points for this week!

“We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life it to be effective and bring happiness.”  ~Maxwell Maltz

So, let’s go on our and find ourselves a contest shall we!!!
  • Decorate a cupcake, a room, a garden
  • Write a song, a jingle, a joke, an essay, a poem
  • Sing a Song, Dance your ass off, Join a dart tournament
  • Cook something, bake something, arrange something
  • Dig in the dirt, climb on rocks, race the water
  • Have a birdhouse building contest
  • Cycle, Run, Walk, Swim, join a triathlon
  • Cook in a Chili Contest
  • Swish in a Hula Hoop Tournament
  • Play Checkers, Chess, Scrabble, Cards
  • Drop your business card in a bowl to win lunch
  • Write your name on every contest slip you can find in the mall
  • Have an informal contest with some pals, a friendly competition; get a giggle in if you can!
Do something that will hopefully exceed your normal boundaries and limitations. Do something that will bring you excitement, joy and anticipation. Something that might make you a little bit sad to not win! But do SOMETHING!  If you need to make up your own contest, then do that! Challenge your kids to a contest of who can name all the states, see who can collect the most seashells at the beach, have your kids or friends create a contest for you!! Whatever it is there is always the pie eating contest… everyone loves pie!

“It is better to live on day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb.” 
~Roman Proverb

We all have some preconceived notions as to what “contests” are….but it needn’t be that difficult, just use your imagination….we all have wonderful imaginations when we allow them to expand on their own!!  Try these to get the juices flowing….
  • Scavenger Hunt
  • Swiming Race
  • Arm Wrestling
  • Trivia Contest
  • Sweepstakes of any kind
  • Closest to the Pin. Longest drive
  • Enter to Win a Trip, A Car, A Free Dinner
  • Race to the finish of ANYTHING
Just have some fun with it this week! Accept EVERY contest challenge! It’s summer, and we don’t want to stress ourselves too much…as long as we keep building our Creative Courage then all is well!  I’m off to the beach!!
Cheers,

JeaneMargherite Meria McMahon Murray Schintgen

(yep, that’s my name, don’t wear it out!)
 I would love for you to “check me out” in my other realms…..

Week 25 – The Sound Of Music Remix


This post has received over 4,000 hits in since it was originally posted.  
I find that amazing and thrilling and a bit frightening all at the same time! I hope that as many people have  found a little something worthwhile in the prose to carry on. Hopefully 4000 accepted this challenge and are better for it.  In any case, I felt that it bears repeating. 
If you have not read yet perused this wisdom, here is your second chance….enjoy the read, and bring on the tunes!!!

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.  –Confucius

Art is Courage, Music is Art.  As Creative People, we often NEED our music. We need it to help grease the wheels of creativity, to motivate us to get to the studio, to relax us so we can write or get us jamming for hammering on our benches! Music and all other arts are intrinsically intertwined. Therefore if Music is Art and Art is Courage…let’s get our Courage on!!
The universe is full of music, it is the only common denominator within all cultures of humanity. Although with all the types of music, it truly is all one and the same, just arranged differently and played on different instruments. The sounds of music have been around since the dawn of time.  Music (and art) are basic human functions, and we as know that humans and art (all art, not just music) cannot function without one another.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.  – Robert Fripp

Music is grounded in our imaginations, our interactions with sound are unavoidable; we simply choose whether to create it or enjoy it. All people have found music significant in their lives, whether writing, creating, performing, listening or for the emotional experience. Some artists and creatives can even close their eyes and see colors while they are listening to music. I am one of those people, and I am certain my experience is different as everyone’s is…but the colors move and dance for me depending on the type of music I am listening to….it’s another benefit of music in my life that I greatly appreciate.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. – Aldous Huxley

Here’s an amazing fact: Simple anticipation of a song or musical composition, will cause the brain to release dopamine, which is literally the “Feel Good” chemical! How fantastic is it that this type of reaction is created by simply anticipating something so abstract and intangible?  Scientifically this action is actually biologically reinforcing the brain and our happified emotions!  Music is actually thought to be linked to all emotional, spiritual and physical elements of the universe. Here are a few facts for us to remember…

Facts:

Music Reduces Stress: It helps to relax our muscles as well as reducing our breathing rate; both of which are directly related to reducing emotional stress. This is regardless of the type of music, as long as we enjoy listening to it.
Music Alters Brain Waves: Like the wonderful dopamine reaction, music also alters our brain wave patterns and therefore elevates our mood…most wonderfully – even after we stop listening to it! I can even do so while we are simply “singing” the song in the corners of our minds.
Music Motivates: There are so many songs, different songs to different people that will motivate, move, stimulate and encourage. We’ve all got them, you konw which ones they are! Try to think of a few, write them down…remember them! USE them!
Music Happifies: Seratonin is another neurotransmitter that will physically affect your mood, so on top of the dopamine and the altered brain waves, music actually helps to release seratonin it as well!! What a wonderful triple threat!
Earworm: The name that references those songs that get stuck in your head that you can’t seem to remove until it is replaced by another earworm, or deep thought! Yep, there is an actual word for it!

Words make you think a thought, Music makes you feel a feeling.  A song makes you feel a thought. – E.Y. Harburg

Some of this may not be actual “new” information to most of us, but just as earworms, they fade after time…and those facts seemingly become just the white noise in the background.  We’ll, let’s bring that background music to the forefront this week!! Let’s bring out the music. Let’s turn off the t.v. and turn on the iPod, stereo, radio, whatever you have! If you don’t have something to bring music to you, then create it yourself. Yes you can!
I am a horrific whistler, although I know a great many people who are wonderful whistlers….so whistle while you work!  Some of us are more of a singing in the shower, or jamming in the car kind of music person….sing your heart out! Sing it out loud!! If you prefer to hum your tunes, then do so while walking down the street, running errands or working at your bench!  My personally most revered of singers, are the ones who can sing soft and low with sweetness in their voice that can calm the wildest of beasts! Those people amaze me, and you are one of them, you best be working that talent!!
One more thought and added benefit of the sound of music is that all music (as well as your mood) are contagious; you are able to make others feel good simply by using music to make yourself feel better!!  We’ve all walked past someone whistling while walking…it makes us smile, yes?  Who hasn’t seen someone singing to themselves while sitting in traffic?! Playing Air Drums on the steering wheel? That always gives me a giggle – and not in a mocking way, it actually a visual reminder for me to live with abandon…and generally after I giggle, I find a good song and rock it out too!!  Let’s all of us, just try to do a bit more of that this week! Will you must the courage?! Will you bring more music into your life? Live life with abandon, filled with tunes of anything you like!  I actually have several playlists on my iPod, some are arranged by music type: county, celtic, meditation; but most of it is organized by mood or activity: dance, relax, every day, studio work, happiness, mello, shower, bubble bath….. because certain moods and activities naturally are accompanied by the music that moves us for that mood or activity. Truth.

“Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.”  - Jim Henson

This week in your studio, your shop, your kitchen, your car, on the street, in the office, wherever you are…bring more music into your life. Even if you listen to music (or create it) try adding more, or a different type! Instead of the television, turn on the radio –NO talk radio does NOT count!! Wear your iPod or other musical device whenever you can. Listen to music that makes you feel good, that calls on you to shake your bootie or tap your toe! If you feel like swaying (or jumping) to the music – go ahead and DO IT!!  Have enough courage to sing it out loud! Demonstration the audacity to perform in you car, sing wildly in the shower – with the radio on if you prefer, dance down the hall with a song in your head! Resonate music this week…HEAR the sound of music, even if it’s simply the earworm of the last elevator song you heard!! Allow yourself to listen to music of your teenage years, remember what it was like to jump around at a concert, or a school dance. Remember playing air guitar like we were really on stage! Remember and have the courage to DO THAT this week!! I promise you that your creativity will definitely benefit – as well as your physical and emotional bodies!
Go on now…listen to the sound of music, dance to the sound of music, sing sing a song, sing out loud, sing out strong….

JeaneMargherite Meria McMahon Murray Schintgen

(yep, that’s my name, don’t wear it out!)
 I would love for you to “check me out” in my other realms…..

Week 24 – Unblockentitice Creative Courage Challenge


“A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.”   -Eric Maisel

As Artists, as Creatives, as everyday folk….we sometimes find ourselves with our face in The Block. Ideas are gone, there is no color that’s right, the music doesn’t flow, the words don’t make sense, our brain doesn’t seem to function, like when a word is on the tip of your tongue but your mind can’t grasp it. Creative Block. I can hear the sighs already, I actually just sighed myself!  We all know this horrid experience, and we often feel so defeated we simply give up.   Well, this week, I challenge you to learn how to break your creative block into smitherines!  We’re going to work some quick and easy steps, we will all commit the easiest of them to memory, and we will all make a note to hang in our Creative Universe, so that the next time our Creative Genius is acting more like a Lump…we’ll know how to fight back!!
We already possess all the creativity that we need to accomplish the things that we want, but we must learn how to effectively unlock our creative mind when we are stuck.  How does this qualify as a Creative Courage Challenge you ask? Because it takes confidence to face a challenge and to work through it…and where does that confidence come from – yes, from working the challenge, accomplishing your goals and growing your courage to build your confidence!

“Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.”  ~Lukas Foss

So I’ve compiled a list of ways to unblock the creativity when you are stuck. These things related to ALL people, creative, artistic, and all those in between. People in general get blocked all the time…so let’s create some unblockentitice!
  1. STOP THINKING SO HARD – Creativity defies logic, it is not rational and it does not respond to left brain analytical processes. In other words, you cannot THINK yourself into being creative. So don’t try! Just stop thinking all together. Honestly, this is a great time for meditation, for clearing your mind and opening it up for inspiration! Sit.Silent.Breathe.Be.  It works, I swear.
  2. THINK DIFFERENTLY – If you feel that the first idea is too abstract, and some will…then put all thought of the end result aside and find something pleasurable about what you are creating. If you are stuck because you feel unmotivated, that’s generally because you don’t feel like you are enjoying what you are doing.  If it doesn’t feel fun, then figure out why, and then make it more fun!  If I need to make 15 pairs of earrings that are basically the same…not so fun really.  But if I give each pair a name or make up the person who is going to wear them or where they will be wearing them too…sometimes a different kind of imagination will make all the difference! Often times it is simply thinking just SLIGHTLY differently that will make it or break it! In this wonderful example fromConcept Genius of how simply thinking a bit differently will make every bit of difference.
  3. THINK BACKWARDS – Yes, I am aware that the number one rule is to stop thinking so hard, and then the second was to think differently and now to think backwards. In my defense, “differently” and “backwards” are not thinking so hard!  As in the Matrix Movies when the child was asked how to bend the spoon, he replied, you must realize there is no spoon.  Here is a wonderful blog from Brian Clark called Copyblogger asking if Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking, It’s a wonderful way to begin to realize you can “think backwards”.
  4. FORGET ABOUT IT -   As my Uncle Guido would say! Truly, put it out of your mind, forget about who it’s for, when it’s supposed to be done, the expectations you have of yourself, the assumptions you are creating about how it will be received…all of it. Forget about it. Do something mindless if necessary – watch t.v., take a nap, distract yourself to allow your mind to reset…back to meditation, which for some is doing a task (mine is gardening) when I am gardening I’m not thinking about anything, just the weeds that need to be pulled the way the water hits the flowers and greenery, watching the bees….I get a lot of good ideas when I’m gardening. Sounds silly but it’s a great meditation for me.  Which is why most of my angst for Creative Blocks come in the winter time….no gardening in the Southern Wisconsin in the winter!

“A creative block is the wall we erect to ward off the anxiety we suppose we’ll experience if we sit down to work.”  ~Eric Maisel

Okay now that we’ve discussed the thinking/not think portion of our list, let’s look at the ‘action’ list:
  1. JUST DO IT – If not thinking about it doesn’t work, and thinking differently doesn’t work….how about your just jump In and see where it goes! Play with it, allow your work to evolve on its own without your directive, and just let it come to life! If you have just an “idea” of what you would like to accomplish and allow yourself to bring it forth without force, you may surprise even yourself with what was lurking behind that nasty block! So don’t worry about the outcome, just start and see what happens.
  2. TALK TO YOURSELF –  Yup you heard me (or read me!) Talk to yourself; most of us do it anyway, but how about you do it on purpose and not feel weird about it.  I talk to my components all the time … “What is it that you are hoping to be?”…”What do you want to be when you grow up?” …”Do you feel pretty?”…yep, true story. Sometimes they even talk back!!  If you talk to yourself, instead of your work, sometimes you can spark a motivation… “I want to finish this chapter by the end of today.” .. “I am going to throw three bowls before I clean up my wheel for the day”… “I am going to write the chorus today, and the rest of the song tomorrow.”  If you talk to yourself in this way, OUTLOUD, you may just motivate yourself enough to climb that block!
  3. DECLUTTER – yah, yah, yah….I know we’ve all heard it before; but it truly works!  It is difficult, if not impossible to create and be creative in a space that is cluttered and disorganized.  In anOctober post, I talked about how I had gone to my studio to create, and it was such a mess…my creativity turned off, like a light switch. I felt very defeated and disappointed; I was about to simply walk out the door, but the nagging that a project needed to be done held me in place.  I slowly began to declutter (dare I say Organize) an area so I would have space to work, and it was inspiring! I found components I didn’t remember having, doodles of ideas on scraps of paper that sparked some imagination, and the unimaginable happened…my decluttering felt more like a treasure hunt, and before I was finished I was already charged with great creative ju-ju!! Try it, you’ll like it!

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so you may be violent and original in your work.”  ~Gustave Flaubert

These things should hopefully unlock your block.  The message here is to not give in and just give up, but to muster a bit of creative courage and on with doing what you love!!
My last piece of advice, and my last suggestion on the Unblockentitice is to simply PLAY….think like a kid, what did you enjoy doing when you were a kid? Make a list of some of the activities you truly enjoy, then allow yourself some playtime!!  If you are not quite sure what that means, this article from THE CREATIVITY POST: Thinking of Yourself as a Child Can Unlock Your Creative Potential, then you’ll have a better idea!  Or just for fun you might peruse this wonderful  image from Copyblogger How To Break Out of A Creative Rut. Give yourself some time to enjoy your creativity; to laugh, giggle, play and have fun, it’s a wonderful side effect of climbing over that block! Something that you might find fun, even if not from your childhood is a fun block shaped book called Creative Block, full of ideas and suggestions to get the ju-ju flowing!!!
Challenge ACCEPTED!!

JeaneMargherite Meria McMahon Murray Schintgen

(yep, that’s my name, don’t wear it out!)
 I would love for you to “check me out” in my other realms…..

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Week 23 - School's Out For Summer


“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” ~Dr. Seuss

We’ve had some great fun the last few weeks building our creative courage with music and discovering other cultures. As a matter of fact we’ve been working pretty hard all year building our creative muscles.
School is out for summer for many this week, there are graduation ceremonies, exams, ACTs and all of the messiness of the cyclical schedules changing….no making lunches, the alarm no longer rings at 5:30 a.m., a relaxed atmosphere, hopefully days at the beach, and more time with friends.   So….. let’s enjoy that time this week.  Let’s be courageous enough to relish in this time, and work though the changes that need to be made; then come out stronger on the other side and ready to get back to work building our creative muscles!!  Let’s TRY to take it easy this week…let’s enjoy the changing of the guards, let’s regroup, rebuild and recharge!! I’ll see everyone next week!  How does that sound?!!
Although if you really want a challenge this week, let’s re-visit our Sit.Silent.Breathe.Be  and remember to take it easy!!

“Take it easy baby, take it as it comes, specialize in having fun!” 

~ Jim Morrison
Posting on Thursday will give everyone an opportunity to relax and realize there is No Homework for this week!!  So go have fun!!

JeaneMargherite Meria McMahon Murray Schintgen

(yep, that’s my name, don’t wear it out!)
 I would love for you to “check me out” in my other realms…..

Monday, May 28, 2012

Week 22 - Joy To The World


“True joy is that which gives us more energy and makes us feel more alive.”  ~Robert Puryear

Joy…bliss, cheer, delight, elation, effervescence, euphoria, exhilaration, gladness, glee, nirvana, passion, radiance…you know – JOY. Don’t we all want to experience, live and spread joy?! We know those people who always bring a smile to our face, a skip to our heart, they perk up your attitude just by being around. They exude joy.
Think about the folks that you most admire…just for a moment, think about a few people in your life that you admire. Likely they find a way to bring joy into just about everything – waiting in line, their daily commute, an angry stranger? They seem to bring it with them everywhere they go, their life’s up and downs are just like a ride on a roller coaster. They appear to actually bounce when they walk, and they are always with a quick smile. They are probably some of the most creative people you know as well, exuding creative joy like watering everyones aura. We want to BE them. Maybe we ARE them?!  Nourishing your creative joy will enhance your life’s meaning, and the way you experience your daily life.  So let’s get to it shall we?!

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.” ~Plutarch

We often begin our days hoping they will be full of joy, then the hot water runs out in the middle of the shower, or there is a traffic jam, or one of a million other little things and it slowly chips away at our impending joy. *Sigh* We all know these days, we all live these days. BUT if we can build our courage and learn to turn those days around, or better yet not allow those pesky things to sap us of our joy, we will be so much more, well…joyful!
As artists and creatives we often believe that we are doing so much already that to do one more thing might just push us over the edge. Don’t give up on building Creative Courage now, it’s been 22 weeks, we are almost half way there! We’ve had some fun experiencing other cultures, adding more music to our lives, hopefully we all drove our ‘pink cadillac’ and got lost on purpose a few times to shake things up! This is just another fun adventure on our journey to Creative Courage.  Nourishing our creative joy brings more meaning to our lives, it will help us to develop resilience to life’s little inconveniences – we all know that is vital to our existence – and it will help our minds and our bodies physical feel and function much much better! Yes it does!

“What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?”  ~Rollo May

If we take a good look at the past twenty one weeks, we will see that we have actually been working up to this. We should actually have been learning how to add more joy to our lives.  Finding time for ourselves in Sit.Silent.Be.Breathe, and finding joy in our surroundings by building our own little Creative Universe, we have rediscovered our inner Curious George and we have hopefully learned how to LOL a great deal more as well! So many challenges we’ve already completed have been bringing us more joy, so this should be easy!!
Often even our creative work sometimes has the joy sapped out of it with repetition, or frustration, creating that which is not up to our full creative capacity, because we’ve done what the customer has asked for. That is after all what brings in the money; so we need to learn how to experience our creativity, bring home the bacon and foster our joy!

BRING ON THE MAGIC

“Most people see what is, and never see what can be.” ~Albert Einstein

Identify one thing that you want to change or create, and just do it. Just start, experience the tickle and do it anyway. If we want to create a work of art, and we may not have the supplies, or be able to afford the supplies…then go FIND the supplies, price them, hold them in your hands, feel what you can do with them. Hangout at your local coffee shop, music store, book seller, building supply or scrap metal merchant; let your heart lead you to find your materials for play. Then use your innate creativity to generate the magic of the beginning…then we take it from there. The magic always brings joy with it for the ride!

SIMPLIFY THE PROCESS

 “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”~Albert Einstien

We’ve all heard this over and over again, and we all understand that simplifying the processes will help, but we don’t often get around to doing it, so let’s take a radical simplification process this week. If you are a writer, then put away your computer and pull out pen and paper. If you are a musician, forget the music processing gadgets and get back to acustics whether that be guitar, piano or simply humming.  Potters don’t create an elaborate piece, throw a simple bowl on the wheel, or better still how about an old fashioned pinch pot?! Try to remember how you worked when you were just beginning your journey, feel the joy it used to bring you back then….live with that for a while this week.

RESURRECT PAST LOVES

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”  ~Galielo Galilei

We are not talking raising the human dead, or looking for old flames…but we are talking about finding the passions that may have brought us to where we are. We may love our work but many of us did not begin with doing exactly what we are doing now… so go back and remember what creative passions you had ‘before’.  I am a jewelry artist by trade, but my passion began with creating from the misplaced and forgotten, reusing and repurposing the discarded.  I have begun again working with this train of thought, this feeling of excitement, and I have truly found the joy that helped me begin my jewelry work…and now I’m even incorporating those things in my work, so working has become more joyful.  Finding joy in one part of our lives always brings joy to the other parts of our lives!

CHANGE LOCATIONS

“All our knowledge has it’s origins in our perceptions.” ~Leonardo da Vinci

Most artists and creatives build their own creative universe then feel that is the only place that they must create. This is the place that was made for creating after all, and it holds all of our supplies, why change locations?  Again, just to shake things up a bit, and craft where we are happiest!  I love my studio, I smile almost each time I step into it…well, except when it’s a complete wreck! Although I also love the sunshine….and that is a rare thing in my studio (which is actually affectionately referred to as “The Cave”) so how do I experience joy and still get work done? I will take a few simpler projects to the back deck with minimum supplies, and work in the sun! That brings me a great deal of joy! Therefore, if you usually paint in the basement, then take a canvas to a known happy place and pencil your idea instead of painting, or take your paints and an easel to the arboretum or other place that may bring joy. The musician may simply swap studios with another musician; or if you are used to doing gigs in the evening, try a few day time performances….when we create in the same space, over a period of time the place gains a power of its own; changing locations will help to alter those subliminal influences and help to foster a feeling of “newness”, to alter the brainwaves and start “fresh” with our art. So try this week to change your location for just one day, just one project, just for a little bit of joy.

“Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us to stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.” ~Brene Brown

Often we are quite concerned about how to make others happy, even in our creative minds. We may have in idea or inspiration come to us, we will execute it, and then think….no one will like/buy this. We then proceed to change what we know was given to us to share.  That is when you know you have lost your joy. We must honor our preferences, we must find our joy once again so that when the inspiration comes, we do not second guess, we simple create! This week then, after you have reclaimed our joy, we need to honor it in our work and in our lives. When something you see makes you smile, give it an extra moment in your mind to enjoy it. Feel that joy. When you inexplicably find a grin on your face, simply enjoy it. Live unapologetically in JOY this week. Revel in your preferences, give yourself permission to be and feel your authentic self. Bask in the joy that is you and choose to be joyous. Joy to the world, you can provide it! Joy to you and me!
Have a great week! Oh, and yes that “earworm” will probably stick with your for a while! ; )

JeaneMargherite Meria McMahon Murray Schintgen

(yep, that’s my name, don’t wear it out!)
 I would love for you to “check me out” in my other realms…..
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