INSPIRATIONS

If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s. 

                                                                           - Joseph Campbell

-                   foxes

-                   playing the flute

-                   wild roses

-         Kuan Yin

          Here's my favorite Kuan Yin poem:         

                Immortality 

                You try to climb the healing tree to the Palace of the Moon,
                But sadly the Gate of Heaven is not open – even for you,
                But the fact that you tried will travel far and wide . . .
                And everyone will smile and enjoy the flowers in their gardens.
                        (from Martin Palmer and Jay Ramsay's book Kuan Yin)

-                   the sun

-                   my mother, Sigrid Rausch 
(July 1, 1914 – June 26, 1992)

-                   my sister, Karin Christine Rausch
(December 27, 1944 – March 1945)

-                   Celine Dion

-                   Sappho

-          Irene, Eirene (goddess of peace)

-          Isis
(especially for the ability of putting her slain husband back together again)

-                   Susan Griffin

-                   fairytales

-         running in nature

-                   Michelangelo

-                   Women in Black silent vigil for peace

-         candle light

-        Susan Seddon Boulet

-        Jean Houston

-        Mary Oliver

-        Doris Lessing

-        Ursula Le Guin

-        Marta L. Sanchez

-        roller coasters (especially "Twister II" at Elitch Gardens in Denver)

-        "Common Ground"--a sculpture by the Platte River in Denver