WANTED: Volunteer FACILITATOR!

WANTED: Volunteer FACILITATOR!  The FOCUS+ planning team is looking for a person or persons eager to have the support meetings continue this fall and willing to take over as facilitator(s).

Ruth has facilitated and lead the group since November of 2005 (almost 6 years!!), and she is looking for someone to step in as facilitator. If you have an interest in seeing the group continue and are willing to be involved in helping make it happen, please email Ruth. She will describe what is involved in continuing the monthly meetings. If no volunteer facilitator or facilitators are identified, the group will be discontinued.

Contact Ruth @ revenhouse@hotmail.com

616-392-4381

616-283-5554

Next FOCUS+ Meeting: Tuesday, May 10

Part of this month’s meeting will include a viewing of a DVD titled: Adult AD/HD: Regaining Focus

Can’t wait until Tuesday for an ADD / ADHD related video? No problem, my impatient friend: we’ve got a short music video for you available on YouTube called “A.D.D.” by Loomis & The Lust:

With good humor & good music, Loomis & the Lust's song "A.D.D." gets to the heart of attention deficit symptoms and traits- inattention, difficulty focusing, and creativity, to name a few.

AD/HD has its serious side -forgetting to pick up you daughter from school or missing a deadline at work. So when you get an an opportunity to smile, guffaw, or thumb your nose at the AD/HD gremlins, take it. The song and music video “A.D.D" by Loomis & the Lust, an indie group from Santa Barbara, California, delivers that kind of moment.

Frontman Will Loomis has AD/HD, so writing a song about the twisting corridors of his brain was a natural reflex. That’s what artists do sometimes - write about what they know. The fact that the video struck a chord with so many viewers surprised Loomis. At this point, “A.D.D.,” which debuted in August 2010, has drawn nearly 600,000 eyeballs on YouTube.

The video portrays AD/HD in high-definition. Loomis and the band are deftly, hilariously spliced into TV shows, films, the halls of Congress - everywhere, it seems, as they sing, “ADD, it gets the best of me/ADD, always messed with me,” twirl around, and flex their attention deficit muscles.

It might be too much of an AD/HD moment for some viewers. Several commented that the video is too fast-paced even for their speeding brain. Others claimed that the three-minute romp only confirms their diagnosis in spades. Why not decide for yourself?