Page 44 September 2011 “You can manage your energies and trade stress in for energy.” Beyond meditation, Buckley Button said food can play a large role in stress levels and the quest for inner peace. Meat and sugar are stress-inducing foods and have dangerously high acidities if eaten in excess, she said. Rather, she suggested incorporating dark greens into one’s diet. Nutrition science, she said, has been her saving grace. “I had an illness that af fl icted my joints from head to toe; I was constantly burning,” Buckley Button said. “Rather than taking medications, I educated myself in holistic health and cured myself within eight years through meditation and a healthy diet.” After recapturing her inner peace and energy, Buckley Button said she set out to share her knowledge with others. She speaks at public engagements regularly and conducts stress management seminars across the Valley. Each session varies, because the quest for a naturally healthy life is personal. “There is no reason for pain and stress. I would love it, if I could help people to reach an inner peace. I would like people to feel good until the day they die. I want people to laugh often and love much,” Buckley Button said. Author Continued from page 41 Book series aims to help children By Brittany Morris Yellow corn and lessons on obedience are pivotal in an Arcadia local’s fi rst children’s book. “The Adventures of Top Hat Crow” by Saundra Greensfelder is the fi rst of many in a series tailored for children. Each installment is designed to tackle con fl icting moments in childhood, such as transitions from one grade, age, or day-to- day encounters, and making them easier. Much like the topics that color the pages of Greensfelder’s new book, the events that created the new series seem far apart. A traumatic event and a plush black crow spurred Greensfelder’s desire to write a children’s book, she said. A stroke brought Greensfelder’s 39 th year of teaching to a screeching halt. She had taught kindergarten classes, as well grades 1 through 5. “I had been hoping to reach my 40 th year and retire. But they say that when God closes one door, he opens another. I couldn’t return to work after my stroke, and this gave me time start my book,” Greensfelder said. The plush black crow had been bought in London, England – one of many countries that Greensfelder, a military wife, lived in. A desk ornament for several years, the stuffed animal became her main character. Named Top Hat, many of the tribulations that the crow encounters are closely related with incidents that Greensfelder witnessed in the classroom and at home with her three sons – and still does today with her two grandchildren. “‘Time to Move Top Hat’ features a time when Top Hat is happy with his life, and his parents decide to move. This was similar to my own family and our constantly moving because my husband was in the Air Force,” she said. Both the stroke and a plush crow had combined for an unexpected combination, and the process, Greensfelder said, took nearly a year. “I sent it out to several publishers, and when it was picked up, we sent it back and forth between one another several times. It was a long process because they couldn’t make a change without me. 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Page 45 September 2011 By Alli Ligget In a certain Tempe theater, along with soda, candy and buttered popcorn, moviegoers are encouraged to dress in costume, misbehave and hurl plenty of profanities at the screen. The theater is MADCAP, and every Saturday night it hosts a screening and live production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show . Tempe’s MADCAP theater (formerly the Harkins Centerpoint) started hosting Rocky in 2009 after the show bounced around different Valley theaters since the movie’s release in 1975. Cast members of the live show dress up as characters from the movie and act out Rocky as it plays behind them. Producer Matthew Yenkala describes the experience as “fun but sometimes tasteless.” Before the show, audience members are encouraged to buy a bag of props that includes squirt guns, rice, toast and sunglasses. They are then permitted to interact with the live show. Virgin sacri fi ces for the people who have never seen the movie before also are a part of the evening’s entertainment. Virgins get red Vs painted on their faces and are invited onstage to play games before the show. Yenkala calls the tradition “good- natured hazing.” After the virgin sacri fi ce, Rocky is projected on the screen as the cast acts it out word-for-word, along with added lines and sexual jokes and innuendo. Along with the performance, the audience shouts “call backs” during pauses in dialogue. Call backs are anything from remarks about appearances to calling a character’s names, or commenting on bloopers in the movie. Chelsea Claeys said she knew after her fi rst experience more than a year ago that she wanted to be a part of the movie magic. “It was the most fun I had had at a movie theater ever,” she said. Claeys contacted Yenkala about joining the cast soon after and joined the show in October. “Joining the Rocky cast has really helped me come out of my shell,” said Claeys. Yenkala said he thinks Rocky has maintained its popularity because of the experience and the sense of community it provides for the cast and those who attend regularly. “ Rocky opens a door for people at a certain point in their life,” Yenkala said. The show provides a place where people are welcome and accepted without judgment, he added. Claeys said the Rocky cast is the fi rst group she has ever belonged to, and its theme – accepting who you are – resonates with her. “The main character walks around in fi shnets and owns it,” Claeys said. “Everybody’s different and kind of crazy, but they like it.” For the latest updates, follow the group online at www.azrocky.com. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is more a cult event than a movie. ‘Rocky Horror’ draws cult following to MADCAP Auditions for Disney’s Aladdin Jr are being held at Greasepaint Youtheater Sept. 12-13. Audition times are 5-9 p.m. Performers ages 6-19 are encouraged to try out. Those interested must call 602- 889-7609 for an appointment.  Mariposa Monarca, the popular monarch butter fl y exhibit, returns this month to the Desert Botanical Garden. The exhibit features hundreds of live monarch butter fl ies in the Marshall Butter fl y Pavilion. For more information, call 480-941-1225. CHRIST LUTHERAN SCHOOL PRESCHOOL - GRADE 8 (602) 957-7010 3901 E. Indian School Rd., Phoenix (602)955-4830 Lutheran Christ Church LC-MS Visit our website www.cclphoenix.org e-mail us at christchurch@cclphoenix.org In Christ We Grow That Others May Know Sunday Worship 8:00 & 10:45 A.M. –Traditional 8:30 & 10:30 A.M. –Contemporary 6:00 P.M. –Youth-Led Worship Saturday Worship 5:00 P.M. Sunday School / Bible Classes 9:40 A.M. (Nursery Care At All A.M. Sunday Services) MINISTRIES: YOUTH YOUNG ADULTS SENIOR ADULTS MEN’S AND WOMEN’S FAMILIES & CHILDREN MUSIC GROUPS FOR ALL AGES SUPPORT GROUPS, INCLUDING: SUBSTANCE ABUSE Wednesday Worship 7:00 P.M. KACHINA Quality Dry Cleaning 602-955-5540 3926 E. Indian School Road Arcadia Family Owned & Operated Since 1959 Home & Office Pickup & Delivery Available