FOUR DAYS A WEEK. At Our Fingertips. An Unexpected Place.

✶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

_Click here for our special guest posts since 2010, or click on an image above to take you there.

_✶ This year's special guests:
✶ Donald Verger, award-winning photographer; ✶ Matt Michaels, aspiring broadcaster and journalist; ✶ Melissa Sawatsky, writer, poet, and editor; and more to come.✶

__✶ Thank you for being here and making this corner of the World Wide Web a special one. We treasure your tweets, comments, and emails. Thanks so much for sharing and sending them. ✶ If you wish to receive our blog posts for your week and beyond, subscribe to our Monday Musings and be inspired. ✶ Please note we only blog on Mondays, and we love having you visit here any day of the week.✶

✶ Cheers to our special guests and friends: Naoko Stoop on her new book, All Creatures Great and Small and to James King on completing his manuscript. Well done, Naoko and Jim!

✶ Stephen Lloyd 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

_✶ Mia, you do such beautiful and inspiring things. Simple, effective, wonderful. Thank you. -Stan Stewart

✶ 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

_✶ WOW! Loving Clara's 8th grade graduation speech ~ believing in oneself. -Kerri Far

__✶ Art and Joy. Love the cadence of your writing. -Mike, On A Junket

_✶ 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

✶ Photo-
graphic Moments In Time: Awesome interview with Esta Singer @sheconsulting -Kathy Meyer

✶ I love your blog, Mia! Beautiful in design and compelling in content. -James King

✶ 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

TOP STORIES ~ the ones 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.

__✶ Clara's 8th grade graduation speech ~ believing in oneself. Looking forward, looking back.

✶ Uncommon views. Unforgettable moments. Under the sun. On the White Rim Trail. Moab, Utah.

_✶ We lift our voices above the sorrows of the earth ... a hundred flowers bloom.

_✶ Together we can make a difference. Wrapping our arms around hope. For Japan.

_✶ 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 ✶¨*✶•*¨*☼✶

TREASURES ALONG THE WAY ~ DOING WHAT YOU LOVE.  

✶Life is short. Live your dream. And share your passion. -Holstee Manifesto _

_✶Wellness and Writing Immersion ~ Online Writing Classes by Stephen Webber.✶

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In being fearless
you are not without fear,
rather you are
withstanding fear.
You are moving forward
in spite of it.
-Meredith Pignon