Liz Strauss over at Letting Me Be always serves up fresh inspiration in her daily postings. She has been like a sister to me since we met through our blogs a little over a year ago. This post of hers, A Song of Love in Black and White is about the music of words and songs of the soul created by writers. I hear the bell singing.

I’ve been following the good advice offered at 9rules as they build to Round 5 of submissions. And I’ve heeded a lot of it. I’ve cleaned and designed and streamlined and written. Recently I added the WP “Tags in the Head” plugin and set it up. My traffic doubled within days. Now it’s at a whopping 350 unique visitors a day. I know, big deal, but it is to me. As far as traffic, I don’t think I’m greedy, just a little needy, of attention. Being a performing artist, a clarinetist, I thrive on the public. I love interacting with people. So for me it’s not about money, just lots of love, or not. I enjoy attention of any kind.

Meredith over at Graceful Presence posted a poem by Rassouli called ‘Dancing with the Devine”. It sums up some of the ideas I wish to amplify here on a regular basis: connecting with the Self, the Great Spirit which resides inside and outside us, but which we need to nurture and cultivate. I like the idea of dancing with it, which implied play rather than work. Thank you, Meredith.

Raymond of ZenChill offered a sweet true story of pennies from heaven. In the hustle and bustle of daily life, it’s good to have a simple reminder that fortune is near when pennies appear. Visualize fortune and open yourself and watch for it. You will attract it.

Chattering Mind has posted a beautiful quote from a Sufi writer named Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, on “building a temple out of your own being”. This is the way I approach my own spirituality, since I don’t fit easily into any mass religion and refuse to compromise my belief in reason and science as a foundation for any spirituality.