LOVE STORY 10/04/2010
 HG, a contributor at four days a week, has started pre-K. Last month, HG turned to Mom and said, "I have a story." "What is it?" Mom said. "I love my friends. I love my school. I love my mommy and daddy. And I love you." Mom smiled. HG picked up a marker and wrote the story on green paper. HG handed the story to Mom and said, "Put it in my packpack. Please. I want to read it in school. Okay? Don't forget."   Comments10/05/2010 6:18pm
Susan, so great to have you here. I couldn't agree with you more: HG's story is a wonderful way to start the week and a nice reminder of one of the most beautiful words in the English language. Love. As HG said, "Don't forget." Leave a Reply |  ✶CONNECTING AND SHARING OUR JOURNEYS through the moments, travels, stories, treasures and dreams. ✶AT FOUR DAYS A WEEK. ✶Aspiring and inspiring. FROM HERE TO THERE. ✶LET'S DO. DREAM. BELIEVE.✶ -Mia T. Starr
CONTRIBUTORS & GUESTS
_✶ Click here for our special guests posts since 2010, or click on an image above to take you there. ✶
NEWS & NOTES
✶ This year's special guests include: ✶Donald Verger, award-winning photographer; ✶Melissa Sawatsky, writer, poet, and editor; and more to come (✶Jade Webber, painter, teacher, and environmental activist; and ✶Matt Michaels, graduate journalism student at Northwestern University).
✶ Cheers to Naoko Stoop (one of our special guests) on her new book, All Creatures Great and Small. Well done, Naoko!
✶ Stephen Webber, an excellent writing teacher who helped Mia with her MORNING SUN in Tuscany, is offering Wellness and Writing Immersion ~ Online Writing Classes.
✶ Gems along the way for MORNING SUN, a historical fiction in progress. No matter how dark the morning, the sun always rises. -Mia T. Starr
   SWEET TWEETS
✶ We treasure your tweets, comments, and emails. Thanks so much for sharing and sending them. Thanks for being here and making this corner of the World Wide Web a special one. ✶
TOP STORIES The posts and stories that captured your hearts and imagination, here and at Anita's Finding Inspiration Daily, The Becoming Daily, and other online papers. Thank you so much. ❤ ✶*¨¨*•*¨*✶☼
✶ In Venice ~ an awakening. In a swirl of art and joy. Above the grandeur. Photos, moments, and poetry.
✶ A daughter makes a visit to her father's village of Mong Phu in Vietnam. A family passage.
✶ HG handed the story to Mom and said, "Put it in my packpack. Please. I want to read it in school. Okay?"
✶ MORE TOP STORIES ✶ ƒ๏ℓℓ๏ω YOUR HEART AND INTUITION ✶ experience ✶ TAKING FLIGHT WITH LIFE ✶ something new ✶ BEYOND THE TRAIL ✶ THE WAY TO THE SKY, THE WAY TO THE STARS ✶ AN IMMERSION into Writing, Bliss, and the ARTFUL LIFE ✶ AM WRITING MORNING SUN ✶ MOM'S GARDEN From Vietnam to Michigan ✶SPRING ETERNAL ✶ WISHES AND CRANES WITH LOVE ✶ JOURNEYS OF HOPE ✶IF YOU FOLD A Thousand Cranes ✶ PRELUDE TO MORNING SUN ✶ A HISTORICAL FICTION In Progress ✶¨*✶•*¨*☼✶
READERS SHARE
✶ I loved your post and your description of the secret garden! Your words to me right there. :) Thank you for that experience. -Carolyn CJ Jones
✶ Beautiful post! You have such an excellent ability to impart the feeling of the retreat experience. I love this. -Stephen
✶ Mia, you do such beautiful and inspiring things. Simple, effective, wonderful. Thank you. -Stan Stewart
✶ dearest mia, your presence is breath-
taking. as is your writing, your face, your pictures. -Rachel Awes 
✶ Action! I can almost hear the director pulling this film together, firm voice rising above the din. I know, it's a book. But you write with the taste and feel of film. The gift of vivid, clean storytelling. I look forward to the next installment! Thanks for sharing this. @virtualDavis
✶ How lovely, Mia! Thank you for sharing these poignant thoughts about
your beautiful, strong grandmother and the excerpt from your WIP. It
reads like poetry. -Caron Guillo
✶ Mia, what an amazing thing to wake up to ... that was the most beautiful imagery I've ever seen ... and your words, as beautiful as your spirit ... I can't thank you enough for sharing it. And to think I never would have seen it if it weren't for lovely you ... -Jennifer Valentine
✶ Thank you for sharing the wonderful story about how you found my artwork ... these comments are treasure for me as well as it's fuel for my next creation. -Naoko Stoop
✶ Thank you for your kind comments about my post "expanding my horizons" ... I popped over to your site for a visit, what a wonderful place you have there! I am adding you to my blog roll, I definitely need to visit, often ... -Kelly Letky
✶ Mia, you are such an inspiration with your writing, travel, advocacy and all. I am so happy to have met you here. Bless you! -Anita Bondi
BELIEVING AND FOLLOWING OUR BLISS. FROM HERE TO THERE.
  TREASURES ALONG THE WAY ~ DOING WHAT YOU LOVE.
 
Lush little book by Naoko Stoop.
 Freedom by Kate.
 Vintage assemblage jewelry by Sacred Cake.
 In 1965 a nine-year-old son gave his mom a magnolia tree and planted it in front of their home in Toledo, Ohio. Each spring the tree grew and blossomed, carrying with it the spirit of life. This year the flowers of the tree were dancing to the winds on a clear, blue sky day. Photo by Beth Bingle.
 
GIVE VOICE TO YOUR DREAMS.
LEAP FEARLESSLY. In being fearless
you are not without fear, rather you are withstanding fear. You are moving forward in spite of it. -Meredith Pignon MUSINGS CATEGORIESAll  Become a possibilitarian.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities-- always see them, for they're always there. -Dr. Norman Peale- ✶ PHOTO CREDITS ✶
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