April 6, 2025

Happy Spring my fellow creatives and followers who want to exercise their positive creative muscles! Due to recent changes – without back up systems already put in place for the transitions being spoken about – many Americans are feeling a lot of stress, understandably. Additionally as people endure damage to their homes and businesses by storms we were warned about, but don’t DO anything about, because “that’s not real”.. the stressors build as these people are not assisted in any meaningful way. So this article is a must post this week. Stress has a sweet spot. 5 Tips to help you find it.

Honestly, all of this making plans and then falling on their faces, has me grateful that most of my female friends don’t work this way. Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy… was drilled into me growing up. It’s impossible to run a home, a business or the world without redundant systems in place. That’s why all the male led businesses and investment groups are writing about resiliency at this time. It’s somewhat amusing, after you get past all of the frustration and anger. We would not be here if enough people had trusted women to lead at any of the various opportunities that they had to just believe. So we have the leadership Americans deserve. And we are doing our best not to say, “We told you so.”

So onward to one of my favorite songs from my teens that has been running through my head all week. A perfect one from The Alan Parsons Project, entitled, I wouldn’t want to be like you.

I was fortunate to be around a wonderful community creative this weekend and she had a VERY positive spin on all of this negative. She said, “America has long had a consumption problem. So maybe this is the extremely wrenching way we need to be directed away from constantly buying to move toward caring for each other and sharing.” I must admit, her spiritual journey is more advanced than mine, at this stage, and I greatly admired and needed that perspective. I also saw a great sticker on a car window that is absolutely perfect for these times:

So I have given you music, inspirational perspective and humor. These are just a few tools that will help us get through these avoidably tough times. I was watching a history show on ancient ruins and it said, “Democracy lives through literature, theater, mathematics, science, philosophy and art.” So if people around you are trying to stifle ANY of these six elements… give them the side eye and move on. Have a great week my people and I leave you with this thought from Rumi: