I Have Not Failed; I’ve Jumpstarted an Intentional Existence Friends, it is almost time to conclude this project. If I am honest, I will say it hasn’t been an easy journey. In fact, in February, I nearly faltered altogether: I got the flu a second time...
We Often Encounter Challenging People In Our Day-to-Day Lives I often feel an innate need to be a light to others: to inspire them, to help them when they’re down. But I have my moments when I feel like it’s me against the world. I know there are so many...
Drawing Mandalas Friends, I have found another love: drawing and creating mandalas. They’re meditative to create, and they’re meditative to watch as someone creates them. I had been mesmerized before when I’ve seen videos with people creating...
Sometimes ideas for my flash fiction stories come from all sorts of different sources. I went to the desert when I was 14 for a month. I had quite the experience. I’m also influenced by Castaneda’s work, as well as my desire to incorporate a bit of...
February LIFE Project I am 10 months into my LIFE Project journey. I’ve catalogued hundreds of thousands of steps, spent over 300 hours meditating, I’ve written over 100,000 words in my journal. I have two months to go, and what a journey it’s been!...
Discovering That I’m an Empath It wasn’t until I posted my flash fiction story entitled “Imagine There’s No Countries” did I ever consider myself to be an empath. When my blogger friend, Tina Frisco read my post, she pointed out that as she read, she figured out...
Inspirational Haikus For while now, I have been writing haikus each morning and posting them over on my Twitter feed. I’m not entirely sure what exactly made me start doing this, but I can say that I honestly just love sharing uplifting, good things in a world...
Mandalas Last month, I created the “Cultivating Peace” mandala. The results from Random.org drew the following three names: Pallavi Shigh Lisa This means that I’m shipping the “Cultivating Peace” mandala painting to one of those three...
I was contemplating what sort of post (and if, in fact, I would do a flash fiction inspirational post this week in favor of some other inspirational/contemplative idea) to do this week when the lyrics to John Lennon’s “Imagine” popped into my head....
