Inspiration Friday 2025.08.01

Inspiration: Happy Friday!
Today is the 213th Day of 2025.

We have $213,000.00 today.
10% savings = $21,300.00
40% taxes = $85,200.00: This week I am expressing gratitude for these tax dollars being spent to support Mount Rainier National Park located in the state of Washington. Mount Rainier officially became a National Park in 1899. You will find among other wonders Mount Rainier, a stratovolcano, over 25 glaciers including the largest glacier in the contiguous United States called Carbon Glacier, and the Wonderland Trail to explore. LEARN MORE HERE!

How will you be spending the remaining $106,500.00 today?

HERE IS MY PLAN: Books, Conversations, and Dreams

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.” -Buddha

How are you showing up in the world?

One of the ways that I refuel my hope for humanity is by reading with a handful of children from my old neighborhood. This is my fifth summer working with children on their quest to secure dream prizes in the Summer Library Reading Challenge. I am happy to report that everyone reached their reading goals again this year. The 2025 Reading Challenge theme was “Color Our World.” We have been creating ways to weave art projects or experience into the children’s summer adventures. Of course, we read books about color and art, but we also have been documenting all the adventures they created or participated in during the summer season with the intention of writing an essay for school. One of my favorite stories is about Jacqui’s exploration of art installations throughout the city. Each week she challenged herself to find, view and photograph artwork somewhere different in the community. A few of Jacqui’s art hunting adventures included photographing murals on buildings, blooming flowers in community gardens, creating cards with her drawings to give to a senior center, organizing a field trip to the Art Museum with classmates, and her favorite art photography project was taking snapshots of people paddle boarding. Whose dream are you supporting this week? The library is full of books and ideas to add more color into your life. Read a book with someone you love. How are you showing up in the world?

$100.00: Self-care to pay for another month of internet connection, especially for access to Zoom. Listening to children both read and share their perspectives about life adventures fuels my heart with hope for humanity. And I love that!

$0: Priceless: Discovery through Conversations

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” -Spinoza

Practice unjudging someone. In these challenging times, who are you “being” and what are you contributing to support humanity? Twenty-five years ago, in Copenhagen Denmark a youth group experiment at a local summer festival turned into a viable community solution. The challenge of this event was to develop an educational experience that would address the rise of violence in the community. The youth group created a library lending booth with a twist. The “books” were volunteers who were checked out to strangers for 30 minutes at a time. Imagine sitting face to face with a stranger and hearing them tell you firsthand what it’s like to be discriminated against for their race or religion or disability or other life circumstances. The festival participants selected a topic category at the lending booth and then were matched up with an available human book. During the thirty minutes the “human book” would tell a specific story about how their life was impacted by the topic and then opened the conversation to questions. The human book experiment continues today as the international not for profit called the Human Library. What topic would you choose to learn about from a stranger? If you volunteer to be a human book, what story would you share and why? Adventure is just a conversation away.

$105,400.00: These dollars are being used to support programs offered by the Human Library. The mission of the Human Library is “to challenge what we think we know about other members of our community. We support challenging stereotypes and prejudices in a positive framework, where difficult questions are accepted, expected, and appreciated.”  You can LEARN MORE HERE!

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

$1000.00: for a date with my husband that includes sharing a meal and a conscious conversation with some of our neighbors.

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 titled: Color Your Garden by Jill Billington. This book is a reference for all gardeners who wish to master the use of color. I am choosing to be the energy of what works in life.

Five increments of time: This week I celebrated with the children who participated in the 2025 summer library reading challenge. 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 having conscious conversations with people that I love. What are you doing or not doing for self-care?

Planet Awareness: Contributing to the health of Earth.

“We were told magic did not exist, but down behind our house was an old gully, blanketed with a deep green moss soft as a lamb’s ear, and when the afternoon sun snuck through the branches to light everything up, we knew the magic had been hiding in the forest all along.”-Gabriel Andreas

This week I wandered through the wildlife preserve close to our home. I invite you to consider taking a hike, or strolling through a community garden, watching the sun rise or star gazing. How inspired can you stand it? Nature is calling, can you come out to play? Magic awaits when you choose to slow down and see with your heart. 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 Sarah who is receiving an award along with her husband for role-modeling a happy, healthy, marriage. One of Sarah’s living intentions is to create, facilitate, and deliver inspiring couple retreats with her husband. One way that you can help support Sarah’s living intention is to imagine her first live couple’s retreat turns out even better than she can imagine.  Walk, Pray, Love for the health of your marriage. Or perhaps you can take a walk with someone you love and have a conscious conversation. Cheers to happy, healthy, relationships.

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: