This morning when I woke up, I was inspired.   Sometimes inspiration comes as a twinkle of light in mere moments, and sometimes it comes as blaze of fire that burns. I am set ablaze today!   I was able to have coffee on my deck while I watch the North Star fade in the dawn.   There is never a moment that I’m up before the sun, that I don’t give utter thanks for experiencing its rise.   It just oozes the gratitude.   Maybe that is what unlocks the inspiration; the gratitude.   As I was mentally and verbally talking with God about how awesome he was, and my life IS (no matter how difficult the present set of personal circumstances I’m experiencing)   I was fluttered with the hope of what my life will BE.   In this excitement comes possibility.   Possibilities are important. Otherwise, the alternative just sucks.    It’s is the spring of hope. The flicker of MORE. As I was breathing in all my possibilities this morning, a gush ...

September is here. It is my favorite weather month. The skies are a different shade of blue.   The temps start to cool in the morning and evenings.   The days are warm, and the breeze is beautiful.   The harvest moon appears bringing with it magic and moments that turn into memories of fall.   It requires so much gratitude.   Some of my more fonder memories occur in fall.   It’s the month of loving and open heartedness.   It’s a time where the season change.    In my book Diaries of a Wind Swept Muse, I talk about my relationship with my father.     Dairies of a Wind Swept Muse Ours was a challenging relationship, and the book is filled with deep emotions, most of all, love.     I think most of his life was an analogy to the wind.   It made me think of this. There are all kinds of winds. ·          Little to no wind ·      ...

 For the first time in my life, I don’t have a corporate job title.  I’ve decided to take a break from lending.  I am focused on writing, publishing, and procurement.  This is a leap of faith, but I’m ready for the journey.    I had been emotionally and mentally quiet quitting for some time.  I finally have cut the strings by not starting the cycle of lending again. The interest rates and market values helped me come to this conclusion:  I loved my job.   I loved helping people gain ownership.   After some sobering thoughts about the consequences of the job, and the amount of fortitude and resistance it takes to perform on the job, I decided that I c ould afford to be a different me. There is just one issue.   Mortgage Lending is all I’ve ever done professionally.   No matter how many others jobs I had over 24 years, I was always a lender.   I had often thought, what would I do if I didn’t lend?   It’s not re...

  Nobody Knows, and untold people will care, but you must share it.  Often times we think that we are alone in our experiences, our thoughts, or struggles. We are not alone, but we are unaware of this fact because we don’t share. Now there are several powerful applications to this fact. I’ll share 2 with you. Writing it down means little until you share it. I’ve been writing all my life.   One day I always aspired to be a best selling book author. I put off publishing for 20 million reasons. To date, I still have not written or published what is truly in my heart to share. After a series of eye opening events, I realized that I was not guaranteed “a tomorrow”, and that I’d better get to sharing like I understood that fact. It liberated me to write more often, more passionately, and to eventually publish my first book.   Knowing that I had so much more to share, I created a publishing company not only for my works, but to help others find and share their stories...