In my group activities, the women in my writing group with Zee are writing amazing, heartfelt pieces. In my yoga classes, especially Gentle Yoga, people who made a yoga resolution back in January are still showing up, week after week. My book group is so smart! Every month, they blow me away with the insights they bring to that month’s selection. The day after the book group met, Kathryn Marco Polo-ed me, gushing about how grand the discussion was. So even though the world is so very fucked up right now, there have been things that have been inspiring me in April.
Tag: books
Book Group Picks and Personal Favorites of 2025
I so love to read! And I love talking about books with people who have just read them. That is why my book group is one of the ongoing joys of my life. We are even considering making 2026 the Year of the Classics.
Inspired By In June 2025
She said she liked the way the people in Mansfield seemed to have enough. She said they weren’t into “more, more, more, for the sake of more” the way many people in Portland are. And she found this lovely and refreshing. She finds it refreshing, but frankly, this ‘enough’ mindset drives me bats. I see it as a form of complacency.
Inspired By In March 2025
The problem with me is that I am a terrible photographer. Not only that, but I always want to take a picture at the wrong time, like during yoga class when everyone is in Happy Baby, or of someone who definitely does not want their picture taken. I take these forbidden pictures anyway.
Inspired By In February 2025
I’m currently reading Something In The Woods Loves You by Jarod K. Anderson. It’s making me feel kinda the same way I felt when I read Braiding Sweetgrass. Like nature will cure us if we let her. It makes me want to go for long walks in the woods, and not think about all the things.
Inspired By In October 2024
Watching: Documentary on Netflix called America’s Sweethearts: The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Weirdly compelling. The DCC fascinates me because it’s like a cult. Why are these women so willing to devote their whole lives to this organization, even though they get paid about what a worker at Chipotle gets paid? I kept waiting for one of … Continue reading Inspired By In October 2024
What Makes You Feel Inspired?
This blog is called Inspiration Location, but it’s not where I go. I come here to pressure myself to keep noticing my life, to keep looking for the magic, for what lights me up, and not drown in to-do lists and routines. I have to keep myself inspired to be happy. But it’s hard.
Inspired By: Summer 2024
I haven’t done one of these lists in a few months, so maybe it’s time to backtrack and highlight what I’ve been thinking about, reading, listening to, and obsessing about. CAPSULE WARDROBE My capsule wardrobe for Spring and Summer is all done and I am so happy with how it turned out. I always have … Continue reading Inspired By: Summer 2024
Inspired By In February 2024
Tomorrow is the 20th Anniversary of the opening of Main Street Yoga. I have spent the past few days trying to draft a letter to my mailing list, struggling to express what their support has meant to me all these years.
What I’m Inspired by, Reading, Watching, Eating, etc.
This is the first Shutterbean Checklist of September. What I'm reading, eating, inspired by, watching, etc.