“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
--unknown
I don't know why I ever thought a stay-at-home-with-her-boys mother, wife, friend, daughter, sister, neighbor was not at liberty to use this word - inspired. Why did I ever think only artists and craftspeople owned the use of this word. Why I had to be creating in the most traditional sense of the word. Should I not to be inspired in what I do as well? Even if it is a new and creative way to dust the pollen covered furniture? A different way to play with my children. Shouldn't that be the miracle of being inspired? Finding unexpected joy in the everyday? If that is the case, and I believe it is, we should all be inspired!
Today I am wrapping my arms around this word. Opening myself up to seeing old things in a new way. Open to all possibilities.
And I am inspired by:
- an amazing friend who went out of her way
- Texas bluebonnets blooming, even though we will miss them this year
- Spring and new growth, watching our seeds sprouting in our garden
- the thought of camping this summer when papa comes home
- Amanda's book is out TODAY!
- vintage books about shell collecting and display
- terrariums
- The Crafty Crow brimming with ideas for us to explore
- stories from the past...as always
- Erin's animal quilts
- and this book, which I keep coming back to again and again.
What's inspiring you these days?