LaCresha's Lens Focuses On...page 15...MCYO

Tonight I was suppose to workout with one of the gals from the fitness challenge.  Then I remembered I have an Advisory Board Meeting with the Music City Youth Orchestra.  This is an organization which I have volunteered with for several years now.  I am absolutely in love with what this group offers for the community and students who are interested and passionate about string instruments.
Music is so important in our lives.  Rarely have I met someone who does not like music.  Majority of us love music, listen, appreciate and relate to music.  All of us have a song which when we hear it takes us to a place, a moment in our time.  There are songs which take me back to when I was a young girl on my parents farm where my memory of being in the barn with the cows rings clear.  Songs which take me back to when I was a delivery driver for Pizza Hut.  Songs which take me back to when I was walking around or riding at rodeo grounds and horse shows. 
I can always tell when I am completely stressed out or deeply sad because the radio gets turned off.  When I am experiencing that level of stress any kind of stimulation usually gets eliminated.
Of all the things on the radio I enjoy listening to is NPR.  After my break up I couldn't even listen to that station, the memories that would flow were too strong for me to handle.  I still have reflections of where I once was, and what I was doing when the "All Things Considered" music comes on, the Saturday and Sunday morning shows air.  I keep hoping I will be able to have this station play in my own studio as I create new memories for these sound bytes and shows...only time will tell.