Searching For Inspiration

Searching for inspiration. That’s what I’m doing.

I’ve tried all the ‘tricks’ I know today to get inspiration for a post.

1. I’ve looked at the list of possible posts I write in my notebook. No inspiration.
2. I’ve gone through my many blank documents (sometimes with just a quote or an outline) that are stored on my computer in a folder called ‘Fodder’! Nothing.
3. I’ve gone through a few books. Nothing caught my attention.
4. I asked a friend and he came up with a good idea. No excitement.
5. I asked José and he suggested that I chill – don’t have a write a post every day. Agreed – but I want to write one today.

There are days like this when I want to write but have no inspiration. Funny, from someone whose blog is about finding inspiration in every day matters…….

Okay, so I was inspired to tell you that I’m not inspired!

And then I read this poem that I had saved on my computer and I feel excited and hopeful that tomorrow I’ll write something meaningful. For today, I’ll just share this beautiful piece. Enjoy ‘Mindful’ by Mary Oliver:

Every day

   I see or hear
   something
   that more or less
kills me
   with delight,
   that leaves me
   like a needle
in the haystack
   of light.

   It was what I was born for –
   to look, to listen,
to lose myself
   inside this soft world –
   to instruct myself
   over and over
in joy,
   and acclamation.
   Nor am I talking
   about the exceptional,
the fearful, the dreadful,
   the very extravagant –
   but of the ordinary,
   the common, the very drab,
the daily presentations.

   Oh, good scholar,
   I say to myself,
   how can you help
but grow wise
   with such teachings
   as these –
   the untrimmable light
of the world,
   the ocean’s shine,
   the prayers that are made
   out of grass?