Category: Daily Spark

  • Daily Spark: Looking for the Good

     A couple of years ago I took a 21 day gratitude course with Mike Dooley and Pam Grout, where they shared a song Pam had written. It repeated the mantra, “something amazingly awesome, is going to happen to me today…”.

  • Daily Spark: The Pivot

     “You are always one decision away from a totally different life”. 

  • Daily Spark: Actually Heal

    The Abundance Alchemist says, “You’ve outgrown coping – and now you’re being called to actually heal.” 

  • Daily Spark: Little Torches

    Whoopi Goldberg said, “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”

  • Daily Spark: Channel Your Inner Pooh

    The author A. A. Milne had his character Pooh say, “Promise me you will always remember, you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think!”

  • Daily Spark: Path of the Gods

    Today on my birthday I hiked the “Path of the Gods”, or in Italian, “il Sentiero degli dei“, on the Amalfi Coast of Italy.

  • Daily Spark: People and Personalities

    Speaker Jules Alvarado said, “Look for no guru outside of you. Look for no master to hold the key. And instead, in the stillness and solitude, where only you and your creator reside, you will find wisdom deep within your own self”.

  • Daily Spark: Done and Undone

    The Episcopal church prayer of confession mentions asking for forgiveness for “things done, and things left undone”.  Every mother can relate to both.

  • Daily Spark: Build Your Own Stage

    When a journalist asked Lady Gaga, “What would you say to all the record labels that rejected you?” Her answer was, “Tell them thank you. If they hadn’t slammed those doors, I would never have built my own stage.”

  • Daily Spark: Overcoming Resistance

    Alaric Hutchinson said, “Everything that brings us well being is achieved through allowing ourselves to flow with life and be in harmony. Pain happens, it is our attachment to the pain and our resistance to change that causes suffering.”