1) Things that inspire me: creativity in others, candles (!!), coffee, pre-dawn rituals, time to sit and think, sunlight on skin, quotes that jump off the page and slap me in the soul, honesty, goals.

2) Are you all out of inspiration? I came across an article last week that floored me. It’s a psychological look at inspiration (here, since my little linky button isn’t working right now and I don’t know why and it’s too early in the morning for me to figure it out: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/11/why_inspiration_matters.html). Ok. Yes. It’s very much worth the clicking and reading. I had to read it three times to grasp what it was saying, but I needed to get it in my brain.

3) The way Ann Voskamp paints a word-picture and turns a sentence leaves me dizzy. In the best way. And I will read certain passages over and over and over again dissecting the way she stitched her words together.

4) What inspires you? How can you add more of those elements to your life?