The courage to speak up You might be able to relate to the idea of finding the courage to speak up. Between my personality type, and events that happened over the course of my life, I’ve never been outspoken. I realized how much this has hindered me only in the...
Be zen in a high speed world and find the calm It’s not so easy when you have thirty million things coming at you, to be zen in a high speed world. Everything from smartphone notifications, relentless emails, difficult colleagues or work situations, back to back...
Stopping the mental chatter and the jumbled mind There’s a drawing that floats around social media from time to time about the two stick characters chatting and one says, “What the hell is that?” The other character answers back, “It’s just my mind.” Have you seen...
The Answers Lie Within As you may know, I am in the process of completing my meditation teacher training. I am at the beginning of Week 4 (has it already been four weeks!?). This journey is quite profound. Words cannot capture the level of transformation I’m...
From a Poem, A Flash Fiction Story Earlier this week on Twitter, I came across this sweet little poem/saying. I remarked to the person who tweeted it that it felt like a story was stirring in me because of these words: What if our religion was each other, If our...
Sometimes ideas for my flash fiction stories come from all sorts of different sources. I went to the desert when I was 14 for a month. I had quite the experience. I’m also influenced by Castaneda’s work, as well as my desire to incorporate a bit of...
I was contemplating what sort of post (and if, in fact, I would do a flash fiction inspirational post this week in favor of some other inspirational/contemplative idea) to do this week when the lyrics to John Lennon’s “Imagine” popped into my head....
Friends, I wrote this story sometime in November, I believe. It is around 900 words and fits the criteria for a flash fiction story, I hope you find it inspiring and thought-provoking. It deals with listening to our instincts, meditation, and more. ONE I got out of...
I am really enjoying writing these flash fiction stories. I love the potential inspiration they can imbibe. This particular story is less than 900 words. Flash fiction needs to be somewhere between 500 – 1000 words. This story may seem a little glib at first...
