Inspiration Friday 2025.07.11

Inspiration: Happy Friday!
Today is the 192nd Day of 2025.

We have $192,000.00 today.
10% savings = $19,200.00
40% taxes = $76,800.00: This week I am expressing gratitude for these tax dollars being spent to support Lassen National Park located in the state of California. Lassen officially became a National Park in 1916. You will find among other wonders 200 lakes and ponds, the largest Plug Dome volcano in the world and Cinder Cone to explore. Learn more here: LEARN MORE HERE!

How will you be spending the remaining $96,000.00 today?

HERE IS MY PLAN: Acknowledge Grief

“From the outside looking in you can never understand and from the inside looking out you can never explain.” -Grief

How are you showing up in the world?

Being human includes navigating grief. This week has been a doozy. The Guadalupe River overflowed in Texas. Many people lost their lives. It rained in just the “right” spot to activate a flood. The perfect storm generated by mother nature and the human choices on spending money or not spending money on systems to proactively protect our communities. All these factors dominoed into a fury of raging river waters in Texas. Loved ones are gone. Beloved places are washed away. What is this situation trying to show me/you, the clear seeing of which will change everything? Death rearranges us. Grief demands to be acknowledged. And we get to live another day. I am feeling all my feelings and taking actions to live this moment to the edges and beyond. Today, I am bringing nonperishable items to our local food bank. I am calling friends. And I am dancing with my husband.  How are you showing up in the world?

$100.00: self-care to get grounded by practicing yoga with a favorite teacher via zoom. Breath work and moving my body usually connects my head to my heart giving me clarity to know the next best step for me to take in situations. And I love that!

$0: Priceless: Respond to Life with Love

“You know who is going through a lot right now? Everyone. Be Kind.”- Mel Robbins

One of my favorite teachers, Mr. Glick, heartened us to find joy in daily moments. We were encouraged to be extra kind to others because he said that we never know “who is on life’s thin ice.” Glick taught us that the key to life is finding joy by paying attention and magnifying kindness in our daily actions. He also said that we never know when unexpected things will alter life as we know it. These life changes can happen in an instant. Instead of feeding our fears, he taught us to heighten our sense of joy by paying attention to our surroundings. I have practiced this “Glick” wisdom for many decades, and it has served me well. Just today I watched the sunrise as I sat outside sipping hibiscus tea. Over my left shoulder I saw a deer grazing in the field. I heard hummingbird wings and a sweet chorus from baby Barn Swallows alerting their parents that they were hungry.  I am finding joy in the nuance moments of life. What I know for sure is that joy fuels choices to move toward love with more ease and grace, especially in uncertain times. Wonder what joys you will find hiding in plain sight today? Kindness is a form of wisdom that transforms humanity. How kind are you being?

$94,900.00: These dollars are supporting the World Central Kitchen organization to feed first responders and people affected by the Texas flood in and around Kerrville, Texas. LEARN MORE HERE!

Everyone can do something to help another person. Smile, pray, donate to your local food bank. Do something. Kindness matters. Respond to life with love. Repeat. What would it take?

$1000.00: for a date with my husband that includes watching the sunset and slow dancing outside under the light of the moon. We create joyful memories together.

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 World Central Kitchen. The address is PO Box 96538 Washington DC,20090-6538. I am choosing to be the energy of what works in life.

Five increments of time: This week I connected with an old friend who now lives in Texas. Being there; how does it get better than that? 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 working with a body movement coach. Strengthening muscles in concert with an expert. What are you doing or not doing for self-care?

Planet Awareness: Contributing to the health of Earth.

“Do your little bit of good where you are, it’s those little bits of good put together that lift the world.”- Desmond Tutu

Participate in a Plastic Free July Challenge.

LEARN MORE HERE!

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 Kristy who is an entrepreneur. She loves creating opportunities for people to have access to life’s little luxuries. The floods in Texas are an extreme reminder for me to choose to live my life aware of who I am being today. Did I go outside? Did I stop and smell the flowers? Did I ride my bike and allow the wind to blow through my hair? Well, one of Kristy’s living intentions is to increase the number of people in her community that can access the outdoors with bikes/ e-bikes. One way that you can help support Kristy’s living intention is to visit her website and read about her current venture. Every time we take a moment to read about another person’s dream, we fuel our own!  When was the last time you rode a bike with friends? Have you tried an E-bike yet? LEARN MORE HERE!

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: