New Year, New Inspiration

As the days begin to grow longer, and the sun creeps higher in the sky, there is not a more perfect time like the New Year to find a renewed sense of inspiration and zest for life. The blue moon, which auspiciously and beautifully rung in 2010, has set the stage for a year of awareness, gratitude, and intention. On the evening of December 31, 2009 with a bottle of exceptionally yummy Champagne, we built a fire and wrote the things we wanted to let go of from the year past on pieces of paper. As they smoldered in the bright orange flames, it felt like the process of shedding a winter coat to step into a new, fresh phase of life. Next, we wrote our intentions, wishes, dreams, and goals for the coming year and watched as they too transformed among the jumping flames from written words on paper to smoke and ashes. Like a seed being carried in the wind in search of the perfect field to take root and grow, our words, now smoke and ashes, poured out of the chimney into the moonlit sky in search of the perfect moment, sometime in the future, when they too will take root and begin to grow. As that process unfolds over the course of the next year, I have made it my goal to awake every day with inspiration, love, and gratitude for the simple fact that were are here, it is now, and it’s fantastically amazing. So what is inspiring me right now?

Music :: a little of everything – 01.10 playlist

Healthy balanced living ::  Ayurveda

Photographs :: my eye 2009

Photographers :: Lauren Ross :: Ben Moon :: Yann Arthus-Bertrand :: RedBull Illume

Yoga :: Shiva Rea :: Dave Romanelli

Great design :: Design Sponge :: Etsy

Knee slapping laughter :: Demetri Martin :: Dave Chappelle

Travel :: Everlater

Beauty like you’ve never seen :: Ashes & Snow

The simple things :: 3191 miles apart

Love, gratitude, presence, peace. Let the new year fill you with new inspiration, and enjoy every breath…