Inspiration Friday 2025.04.25

Inspiration: Happy Friday!
Today is the 115th Day of 2025.

We have $115,000.00 today.
10% savings = $11,500.00
40% taxes = $46,000.00: This week I am expressing gratitude for these tax dollars being spent to support the Haleakala National Park. Located in the state of Hawaii. The Haleakala National Park was established in 1961. You will find among other wonders one of the world’s largest dormant volcanic craters, Kipahula Valley and Ohe’o Gulch to explore. Also, located on the crater rim, is a research-observatory complex known as “Science City.” LEARN MORE HERE

How will you be spending the remaining $57,000.00 today?

HERE IS MY PLAN: Knock on Wood

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees; under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”  — Nelson Henderson

How are you showing up in the world?

Do you know how to hear the stories that trees invite us to know? Listen with your heart and you will hear their stories, especially when they are chatting with the wind. Spring is coaxing buds on trees to come out and play for another season of joy. Even the evergreens seem to be showing off a new growth of green today. My first memory of talking to trees was with Miss Eileen. She was one of my favorite high school teachers. She was often under a tree, close to its trunk, for hours. I remember her telling me about seasonal conversations with the magnificent maple tree that lived in her yard. Miss Eileen said that “although trees do not move freely from place to place, they are the truest of friends because they bear witness to the ebb and flow of our lives with no judgments.”  As a teenager Eileen contracted the polio virus. Like the trees she loved, Miss Eileen could not move from the neck down. She said that trees taught her the value and compassion of being still while embracing life with love. What I did not know back then was the impact of Miss Eileen’s lessons. They were preparing me to receive the benefits of extended stillness. I invite you to sit by a tree and listen with your heart. Be still and know. How are you showing up in the world?

$100.00: self-care. I am buying a tree to plant.  And I love that!

$0: Priceless: Listen to the Trees.

“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.”  — Richard Mabey

Today is National Arbor Day. This tree planting tradition started in Nebraska 153 years ago (1872). It has been said that “a single tree can generate $31,250 worth of air pollution control, recycle $37,500 worth of water, and control $31,500 worth of soil erosion.”  Tiny seeds can become giant contributors to the health of Earth’s ecosystems. Did you know research studies have proved that when humans look at trees, they can reduce work stress and viewing trees out a hospital window accelerates a patient’s healing? If just looking at trees positively impacts our health, imagine the other benefits trees have in our life. Plant a tree.  Respond to life with love. Repeat. What would it take?

$10,400.00 I am donating to the Arbor Day Foundation whose mission is to “improve communities, preserve our world’s forests, and nurture the next generation of tree planters.” LEARN MORE HERE

$46,000.00 I am purchasing seedlings to plant in all 154 National Forests in memory of Miss Eileen. Imagine generations of people having heart conversations with trees! How does it get even better than that?

Plant a tree. Plant a forest. Pay it forward. Have more conversations with the trees.

Connect to Earth with purpose, talk with a tree and you will show up in life as a better human.

$1000.00: for a date with my husband that includes visiting a local tree nursery.

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 dollars were sent to the Arbor Day Farm Foundation. The address is 2611 Arbor Avenue, Nebraska City, NE 68410.  I am choosing to be the energy of what works in life.

Five Increments of Time: This week I had Conscious Conversations with birth moms because I am volunteering in an adoption support group. 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 refocused on hydration.  What are you doing or not doing for self-care?

Planet Awareness: Contributing to the health of Earth.

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is now!”-Confucius

Planting trees. Imagine the conversations that future generations might have with these trees.  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 June. One of her Living Intentions is to be a published author. Her oldest child has a genetic medical issue. This fact inspired June to start researching her family tree in hopes of finding clues to how or why this medical condition was passed down to others. Although she has not found the medical link, she uncovered amazing stories about her ancestors. Currently she is writing short stories about each family member. You can support her Living Intention of being a published author by imagining June self-publishing her family stories. Or perhaps you can tell someone a story about one of your family members today.  

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: