60 Seconds With Mindy Tsonas
Mindy Tsonas ~ Contributor to Desire to Inspire ~ on an unexpected burst of inspiration:
I was taken over with such incredible inspiration when I was pregnant with my second child. This took me by complete surprise as I thought I would be utterly focused on motherhood and this little life growing inside of me. What happened though, and I’m not sure how or why, was that as the baby grew so did my capacity to create and offer more of myself to the world! I expanded in every possible way. My heart grew wider, my creativity blossomed, my belly swelled, but most profoundly this calm knowing that I was exactly where I was meant to be flooded every corner of my being. Instead of inspiration being a part of my life, during that tender time inspiration became my life.
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60 Seconds With Carmen Torbus
Carmen Torbus ~ Contributor to Desire to Inspire ~ on her Superhero Alter Ego:
My Superhero Alter Ego is a Cheerleader, so who she is, at the core of her being, is a Force of Good in the world. She carries pom-poms, markers and a megaphone. She does her best work wearing yoga pants and a bright pink t-shirt. She travels far and wide at lightning speed via the World Wide Web, inspiring creative women everywhere she goes with her creativity, words and spirit. You can find her in places where women gather seeking motivation and inspiration. She’s often overheard encouraging people to get fired up and follow their bliss!
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Tradition ~ Part Two
{Photos by this lovely bluebird and this one.}
Ms. Michelle Rood Huntley and Carrie Campbell Clayden both posted a photo of a handmade card they recently received from me ~ which was part of this now-annual project ~ and it inspired me to try something totally new here on my website. For those of you who requested and received a “You are…” note from me, I would love to see a snapshot of the card…somewhere, perhaps, unexpected? Post the image on your own website and add a link below. If you feel inspired to share what the card meant to you ~ Did it feel like the exact message you needed? Are you not quite sure what to make of it? ~ I would love to read your stories!
This is the first project in an ongoing series of Desire to Inspire creative prompts ~ an idea I am diving into totally willy nilly. I look forward to seeing where this takes us!
60 Seconds With Kate Swoboda
Kate Swoboda ~ Contributor to Desire to Inspire ~ on her “job title”:
A title is just a title, and only makes a very general statement about what you do, so how do you express who you are and what you believe through the work you do under the umbrella of that title? Officially, I use the title “Life Coach,” even though that title has never really felt like an exact fit, but people usually know what that is, so I stick with it. If I were to choose an alternate title, it would probably be “teacher.” I love learning something or having some insight and then being able to pass it on to someone else. And if I stop to think about all of the times that someone else’s insights have taught me something, I feel very connected and held by the Universe.
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What fun! Yesterday my guest post at Simply Celebrate went live, and today she is our bookmark give away winner! Congratulations Sherry!
Panic
A few weeks ago, Mark Lipinski emailed about interviewing me on his Creative Mojo radio program. He sent me a list of items he needed – which I returned on time (So responsible! So on it!) – and gave me the date and time for my interview. He did a thorough job of explaining how it would work, what we would be discussing, etc. I was invited to talk about my involvement with Art Saves, one of Jenny Doh‘s most recent extraordinary creations.
I put the interview date and time on every calendar I have, burned it into my brain, and started the day of the interview confident I was ready and excited to talk about Art Saves. The interview was scheduled for Wednesday, November 16 at 4:00pm. (“What time zone?”, you ask? Oh don’t worry – we’ll get to that.)
Fast forward on that day to about, oh, 2:30pm, when I am doing some early holiday shopping. While standing in line to check out, a sudden wave of sheer panic washes over me.
“Holy crap,” I thought, “I never double checked the time zone.”
So I slowly, hesitantly pull out my cell phone – the secondary number I gave Mark for the call – and sure enough, a call had come through right on time, at 1:00pm PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, which is the same as 4:00pm EASTERN STANDARD TIME, which Mark had clearly specified in the information he sent me. So I did this, because what else could I do?
“No worries!”, exclaims Mark the next day, “We’ll just move it to next week!” and we both have a good laugh about my space out. I say, “Great! Here’s the number for you to call on Wednesday, November 23rd. Talk to you then!”
Fast forward to today, and I am sitting at my computer with the phone, listening to Mark’s show. His introduction of me begins – which was all about my time zone space out from the week before – then finishes, and then I hear him say, “Hello? Hello…..? She’s not there! Again!”
Let me just stop right here and admit that as I was listening to this, beginning to panic, I actually held up the phone up to my ear – the phone that had not yet rung – and said, “Hello?”
Hilarity then ensues on the radio show about the fact that, once again, I am nowhere to be found, and in the midst of this, I see a message on my phone that the main phone in our house has been unplugged. The main phone in our house is in a room that is now having shelves installed, and the exact thirty-second period of time when our woodworker unplugged the phone was the same thirty-second period of time when Mark was trying to call me.
So I see the message on the phone and I run like a mad woman across the house, race in the room, plug the phone back in while announcing to the woodworker, “I’m supposed to be having a radio interview right noooooooow!” as I race back into the bedroom where the other phone is.
When I ran in, my cell phone was ringing, and so – at long last – I answered! Interview accomplished! Giggles all around!
Who knew a radio interview could inspire such an adrenalin rush? Who knew it could be such a wild and thrilling ride?
* A podcast of today’s interview will be available soon, and I’ll post a link to it on this page when it’s up. In the meantime, I extend my most sincere thanks to Mark Lipinski for his patience, flexibility, and sense of humor! I’ll be speaking with him again in January about Desire to Inspire.
Beautiful Hands
{Photo taken by my husband earlier this year.}
This is the kind of Friend you are:
Without making me realize my soul’s
anguished history,
you slip into my house at night and,
while I am sleeping,
you silently carry off all my suffering
and sordid past in your beautiful
hands.
~Hafiz
60 Seconds With McCabe Russell
McCabe Russell ~ Contributor to Desire to Inspire ~ on what inspires her:
I think more than anything it is the people I encounter that inspire me the most – a friend who has experienced loss yet still remains full of light, a student who chooses not to criticize her artwork after making a mistake, those who speak their mind without fear of what others will think. Anyone who steps out of their comfort zone in the name of creativity and good inspires me. Oh, and pink tulips at my doorstep inspire me immensely.
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Lovely Lee Ann ~ you are today’s winner!!
60 Seconds With Carolyn Rubenstein
Carolyn Rubenstein ~ Contributor to Desire to Inspire ~ on the power of dreams:
Acknowledge a dream. Say it out loud. Have you ever said a dream aloud? Write a dream on a beautiful piece of paper and keep it in a prominent spot. Mindfully attend to it. Know your dreams. Say your dreams. See your dreams. Nothing can take a dream away from you – ever.
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Five Things
{P.S. This graffiti photo was taken in Wellington, New Zealand in 2009.}
1. Inspirational Woman Magazine
2. Brave Intuitive Painting by Flora Bowley
3. Learning to Breathe by Priscilla Warner
4. Gray Works Design on Etsy
5. Peach Tree Pottery’s 6th Annual Holiday show will take place this year December 3rd and 4th. Please join us for a very special weekend.
60 Seconds With Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Amy Krouse Rosenthal ~ Contributor to Desire to Inspire ~ simple yet magnificent easy-to-remember inspiring acronym:
ATM: Always Trust Magic
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