Inspiration Friday 2025.04.04

Inspiration: Happy Friday!
Today is the 94th Day of 2025.

We have $94,000.00 today.
10% savings = $9,400.00
40% taxes = $37,600.00: This week I am expressing gratitude for these tax dollars being spent to support the Great Sand Dunes National Park. Located in the state of Colorado. In 1932 the Great Sand Dunes area was designated as a National Monument and then established as a National Park in 2004. You will find among other wonders the tallest and largest sand dunes in North America as well as two mountain ranges to explore. LEARN MORE HERE

How will you be spending the remaining $47,000.00 today?

HERE IS MY PLAN: Add a Dash of Joy

“When you find yourself paralyzed by all the “what ifs” try to remember that things could also go wonderfully, unexpectedly, fantastically right.”  — Nanea Hoffman

How are you showing up in the world?

My friend Kylie was visiting her old college roommate in New York a few weeks ago. As they were walking about, they came across a “pop-up” Grandma stand. An elderly woman was behind the little stand with a line of people who wanted to have a conversation with her. There was a chalkboard easel with a question written on it to initiate having a chat. The question: “What can you do to feel safe in a world that feels like it’s gone crazy?” Kylie’s grandmother has been gone for over ten years, and she felt compelled to stand in line for a conversation with this elderly woman. It was only a five-minute chat, but Kylie said those few moments and the heartfelt hug was delightful. The grandma’s advice was for Kylie to do something for a stranger each time she feels scared about current events. Her story sparked my curiosity about the “Grandma Stand” concept. It started in 2012. Here are two resources to learn more good news about seniors’ love for connection with others.

1. Welcome to the Grandma Stand
2. Inside the Grandma Stand

What can ordinary people do about world events? We can respond to life with love. Acknowledge everything that is happening as well as all our feelings and then choose to be kinder to ourselves, love others and strive to be a better human. What if it is that simple?  Start with a joyful conversation with a senior.  Respond with love.  How are you showing up in the world?

$100.00: for self-care.  I am buying fresh organic ingredients to make a big, happy, spring salad. I find joy in creating salads with lots of colors using several shades of green lettuce, accented with healthy protein, a splash of orange carrots, a mound of fresh cucumbers, tasty red tomatoes, and a few other delights. Joy is a beautiful, delicious salad. And I love that!

$0: Priceless: Oh joy! The farm fields are filled with grazing mama cows and plies of sleeping spring babies.

“Count your blessings without denying your problems. You do not have to choose between gratitude and struggle. Both can coexist. You can thank the sunrise while facing the storm. You are allowed to find something good to hold on to, even when life feels heavy.” — Vex King

This week, tariffs, tsunamis, tornados and earthquakes to name just a few world, community, and home events that are sometimes all consuming. I have a poem by Jeff Foster taped on my wall as a reminder to give myself permission to rest. His words resonate with the sometimes-elusive fact that it is okay to stop and allow our being to just be. Do nothing more, nothing less …just being. How does it get even better than that?

LET YOURSELF REST~~
If you’re exhausted, rest.

If you don’t feel like starting a new project, don’t

If you don’t feel the urge to make something new,
just rest in the beauty of the old, the familiar, the known.

If you don’t feel like talking, stay silent.

If you’re fed up with the news, turn it off.

If you want to postpone something until tomorrow, do it.

If you want to do nothing, let yourself do nothing today.

Feel the fullness of the emptiness, the vastness of the silence, the sheer life in your unproductive moments.

Time does not always need to be filled.

You are enough, simply in your being. ~

There is joy in resting with purpose.

Give yourself the gift of Rest.

Respond with love. Repeat. What would it take?

Everyone can do something to make a difference. Do more of what you love today. Be kinder. Respond with love.

$45,900.00: These dollars are being sent to support the Red Cross teams who are responding to Americans affected by the tornados this week. Learn more here: Red Cross Organization We can all make a difference; we can all do something. Do you ever wonder if you are showing up in life as a better human? Let’s help someone today. Give your time or donate. What are you doing to help?

$1000.00: for a date with my husband that includes celebrating our 25^th wedding anniversary. I am grateful to be in a happy, healthy, marriage. It is full of joy to be in a partnership built on mostly telling each other what’s right about our relationship.

How loved can you stand it?

Flow Five Friday: Current “real” life expressions of gratitude, love, and contribution to wellbeing.

$5.00: this week’s five-dollar bill is inside the library book called: My Grandma and Me. Written by Mina Javaherbin and illustrated by Lindsey Yankey. I am choosing to be the energy of what works in life.

Five Increments of Time: This week I helped Max with his schoolbook report. It is amazing how slowing down and showing up for someone else can ease the pressure of anxiety that homework can ignite in children and current events can activate in adults. He completed the assignment and did well expressing both his thinking and feelings. And I got to feel like I was contributing to a better world by helping a ten-year-old find confidence in completing a school assignment. Being there. How are you “Flowing Five” this week?

Well-Being: Something that I am doing or not doing for self-care in real time.

I am participating in a 100-day health challenge with friends. Each of us decides what challenge will support our wellbeing. My choice for these 100 days is to unplug and read more! What are you doing or not doing for self-care?

Planet Awareness: Contributing to the health of Earth.

Did you know that April is Earth month? I am increasing my research prior to each purchase by asking myself the following question “planet or plastic?”  This practice has heightened my awareness of product packaging, impulse buying and improved my overall creative approach to spending money focused on backing a better life for all.

I am consciously being kinder to Earth. Before buying something I ask the question “Planet or Plastic?” What are you doing for the health of our planet?

Hold Space or Contribute to a Friends Life Intention

This week I am supporting my friend Kylie who was so moved by her Grandma Stand experience in New York that she is proposing the idea to her church group for their community. One of Kylie’s Living Intentions is to contribute to the wellbeing of her church community. You can support her Living Intention by imagining the meaningful conversations generated by seniors talking with young people. We can all do something to help others.

Choose joy. Be kind. Love others and strive to be a better human. What would it take?

Choose to feel good. Be Joy. 
Practice gratitude. Amplify Kindness. Expand Generosity. 
Ask, Receive, and Give with More Ease. 
Respond to life with Love.

PS: If you have been playing with me for several years, below are the current daily deposits in other years Vibrational Accounts: