Want a New Life, Change Your Mindset – Be Grateful, Be Kind, to Both You and Others
Even if you don’t believe it, your mindset has an enormous influence on your happiness. Even if you don’t believe it, your mindset has an enormous influence on your happiness. There is a lot of research that suggests feeling grateful and being kind to ourselves and others can have a positive impact on our lives. […]
Searching for Inevitabilities — Song by April Rain
WRITING INSPIRED BY: SONG The Search Begins With the Birth of Human Life and Ends at Death. Photo by John Tallent on Unsplash The journey between birth and death is the part which we get to work on. Everyone has a different trajectory. Some close to others and some that may never come close. While other that come […]
Out There — Song by Long Distance Calling
WRITING INSPIRED BY: SONGS Out There, Attempting to Sort Out Our Lives. Photo by Olimpo Avila Salazar on Unsplash We are born with no manual in hand. Most have parents, or another teacher of sort. Learning to breathe is first and format on the list of learning. Followed by eating and pooping. Discovering others around us, we learn to […]
Moment of Clarity — Song by Light Bin
WRITING INSPIRED BY: SONGS Get Up Above the Clouds to See Clearly the Clarity. Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash The moments come and go, but they do come and remind us of the clarity. We must be patient and listen for their arrivals. That clarity for me is that I am a writer, and I must write, […]
Don’t Stay Here — Song by Frames
WRITING INSPIRED BY: SONGS Life Is a Series of Balancing and Steps as We Move Forward Photo by Raphael Renter on Unsplash There have been many times in my life that required me to listen to my gut feeling when I heard “Don’t Stay Here.” Three different times that come to mind were in one a relationship, two a […]
A Look Back — Song by Franco Robert
WRITING INSPIRED BY: SONGS A Review of Our Life From Our Rearview Mirror Photo by Daniel Novykov on Unsplash A shout out and thanks to Frank James Sanders. Thanks for the article I just checked my stats. It confirmed what I wanted them to be. When we look in our rearview mirror what are some of the things […]
We Always Think There Is Going to Be More Time — Song by the End of the Ocean
WRITING INSPIRED BY: SONGS Time Stands Still for No One Photo by Alex Guillaume on Unsplash The clocks hang around, but time does not. We are all under the same constrains with time. Sixty seconds per minute. Sixty minutes in the hour. Twenty-four hours in the day. Three hundred sixty-five days in the year, plus eight hours. As we know […]
Song: Distraction Days by The Album Leaf
WRITING INSPIRED BY: SONGS You Have the Day All Planned, You Have Scheduled Everything Into a Time Slot. Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash You have the day all planned; you have scheduled everything into a time slot. And then the unexpected happens, and it diverted your attention from the planned activity. Your first distraction event just happened; […]
Song: Teach Me To Fly Don’t Teach Me To Land by April Rain
WRITING INSPIRED BY: SONGS Photo by Westwind Air Service on Unsplash David does not want to Land David was our neighbor and a pilot in the military for 20 years. He loved the idea of flying since he was a child. When he was old enough, he joined the Navy and learned to fly planes. After being in […]
What It Might Be Like Passing Family History From Fur Kid to Fur Kid
I imagined Elvis speaking with Misty one day. Photo by Laith Abushaar on Unsplash What the conversation might be between a Blue Doberman male and a Fawn Doberman female after we adopted her, and they are hanging out. I imagined Elvis speaking with Misty one day. What I must share with you will take me some time, […]