Inspiration Archives

This week I posted a blog about the great community where we live in northwestern Montana.  However, living in remote community, working from my home and having a husband that travels every other week, my on-line community is extra important to me. It's my on-line community, usually through Twitter, that I turn to when I have a question, want to share exciting news or just want to chat with a friend. You're there at 2am when I'm not ready to sleep. You're there when I'm stuck on my blog and can't make WordPress work right. You're there to make me…

A few days ago I was visited by not one, but two eagles. They came in the morning and spent the entire day with me, just outside my office window at our home in northwestern Montana. Throughout the day they traded places, but one of them was always perched in my favorite tree, looking right down on my office. I talked with friends who've lived in this area for some time, as well as friends on-line from around the world. Regardless of their individual spiritual or religious tradition, they all  strongly suggested I "pay attention" as the eagle in Native…

To me, snow is one of the most magical things in the world. I love how the world can be transformed in minutes as the planet is covered with fluffy white. The tranquility that I feel with the new fallen snow is nothing short of reverence for Mother Nature. My blog today is a bit different from normal, as I'm sharing our morning snow with you. As an added benefit you get to see the golden eagle from a few days ago also, as she returned to her perch in my favorite tree this morning. May your day be filled…

This morning I woke from a bizarre dream that seemed so real. In my dream, my husband Darryl and I went to go play miniature golf. I was given a pink ball, but the outer coating of the golf ball was peeling away rendering the ball unusable. When I asked for another ball, the woman at the counter gave me a telephone number and told me I had to call this number to get another one. Reluctantly, I called the number, only to have someone answer the phone, "Hello Zappos- How may I help you?" Obviously I was taken aback,…

The past two weeks I've really thought long and hard about my InspireMeToday.com  blog. If you've been reading it for some time, you know that I used to write much more frequently. When I started writing for the Huffington Post last April, my own blog - this blog, suffered. That's not meant to be an excuse; it's just that my focus was divided. The insight that I just had yesterday was that the two blogs are different, or at least they should be. I want this blog to be a reflection of who I am, what I'm thinking and how…

Spent much of the weekend floating on the gently healing ripples of sound offered by a trio of musical devotees Deva Premal, Miten and Manose as they descended on Philadelphia. I was enticed by the music from the very first note of the Gayatri Mantra which is a sacred Hindu chant, that flowed from my radio 5 years ago on a show called Echoes. The sweetly heart-penetrating voice of Deva carried me to such a state of transcendent bliss, that I knew I wanted more. And there indeed was more to be had this weekend. My friend Mahan Rishi Singh…

We live the majority of our lives trying to fit into boxes that our society has created. We base our education, our friendships, our careers and the vast majority of our decisions on what is "expected". What we believe may be possible gets pushed aside by what we believe is probable. But what if you didn't know any better? What if you believed in unlimited possibility? What if you were an alien that just beamed onto Earth and you didn't know the rules?  What if you didn't know the way things were done and you were free to create a…