Inspiration Friday 2025.05.16

Inspiration: Happy Friday!
Today is the 136th Day of 2025.

We have $136,000.00 today.
10% savings = $13,600.00
40% taxes = $54,400.00: This week I am expressing gratitude for these tax dollars being spent to support the Indiana Dunes National Park. Located in the state of Indiana. The Indiana National Park officially became a National Park in 2019. People began advocating for the preservation of this intricate ecosystem as early as 1899. It is known as the “Birthplace of Ecology.” You will find among other wonders beaches, hiking trails, historical buildings, and river walks to explore.  LEARN MORE HERE!

How will you be spending the remaining $68,000.00 today?

HERE IS MY PLAN: Remember Mom

“Happiness found me the day I stopped looking for it in others and discovered it within myself. Life cannot be replayed. And I have decided to live it to the fullest.”  — Meryl Streep

How are you showing up in the world?

My mother lived life to its fullest. This is my first Mother’s Day since mom left this human experience a few months ago. I miss our morning calls over cups of freshly brewed tea. I especially miss when her philosophical voice showed up to share her point of view regarding current events. Lucky for me and my siblings we have our mom to thank for building a foundation of tolerance for people making choices that don’t make sense to us.  She gave us permission to color outside of society’s norms. Annually during Mother’s Day weekend, I share some of mom’s sage advice. Here are a few of her standard messages that I gathered from my eight siblings over the years:

• “It is important to have a circle of friends.”
• “You can bring anyone home, and they will be welcomed to join our gatherings.”
• “You are always invited to our party. I want you to know that you are free to come or not. We will have fun either way. You are free to choose. “
• “Holidays and special occasions can be celebrated on any day at any time. If your significant other’s family is strict about celebration timelines, you are free to play holiday at their house. We can celebrate on another day. You are free to choose.”
• “Just because their priorities are not your priorities doesn’t make them wrong.”
• “Go to therapy.”
• Allow more “wow” moments in your life.

Mom coached us to consciously choose what we wanted and how to best navigate our lives. She welcomed and encouraged us to see other perspectives and be open to explore what else is possible. Experimenting was easier with the knowledge that mom was available to emotionally dissect these experiences before, during and after we made our choices.  And when her wisdom seemed to be failing us, she would recommend therapy as an option to build our arsenal of relationship tools. What would it take to ask for help? I am remembering my mom. How are you showing up in the world?

$100.00: self-care. Traditionally at this time of year I frame a photo of my mother. Embedded in the frame matting will be a note or card with her handwriting. Seeing words scrolled in her penmanship feels like being bubble wrapped in loving light energy. Love starts with me. What can I choose now?

$0: Priceless: A loving mother.

“When people ask how I got to be this way, I say I could give them the long version or just cut to the chase and have them meet my mom!”  — Gabriel Andreas

The first official Mother’s Day was established 118 years ago. It started in honor of Ann Reeves Jarvis. She was a Peace Activist who facilitated education opportunities to promote community health. Her events were called “Mother’s Day Work Clubs.”  These events were invitations for women to create a better world for themselves as well as their communities. In 2025, multiple current events are inviting us to stand up for others and contribute our voices as well as resources to support the well-being of women. What can you choose now?

Respond to life with love. Repeat. What would it take?

$63,400.00 In Mother’s name, these dollars are supporting family and friends who need a therapy “tune-up” to help them navigate life stuff. Including but not limited to the judgement dragon warfare generated by the decreasing of a woman’s right to choose the best health options for herself. What can we do to make a difference in our world? We can respond to life with love. Acknowledge 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? Everyone can do something to make a difference. Mother would be reminding me that it is up to us. What can we choose now?   Respond with love.

$1000.00: for a date with my husband that includes dinner where we will share stories about our moms.

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 The Night Before Mother’s Day written by Natasha Wings. I am choosing to be the energy of what works in life.

Five Increments of Time: This week I helped a friend navigate an avalanche of new life experiences. Human experiences are often obstacle courses that invite us to level up our game. Traversing obstacles with someone else can make life easier.  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.

Whenever I feel sad or shaken about news or life stuff, I acknowledge all my feelings and take time to do a Rampage of Gratitude exercise. Directions for this practice are as follows: set a timer for 1-5 minutes and then write down as many things that you are grateful for before the buzzer goes off.  Next, you read the list out loud. Then ask, “how can this life turn out way better than I can imagine?” This exercise helps me to calibrate and balance my thinking and feelings. How does it get even better than that? What are you doing or not doing for self-care?

Planet Awareness: Contributing to the health of Earth.

“How many people will it take to save the Gorillas?”-Robert Irwin

What are you doing for the health of our planet?

Hold Space or Contribute to a Friends Life Intention

Annually, I support my friend Casey at this time of year. One of her living intentions is to be a voice advocating for resources to support single moms. Casey was raised by a single mom when her military dad was killed in action. Each year she hosts events to raise dollars and awareness, contributing resources to support single moms in her community. One way that you can help support Casey’s living intention is to volunteer or donate to assist moms in your community. Investing in moms matters.

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: