Inspirational Moments – April 2011

Walking as a Lifestyle

by Sue Kenney

One day I was flipping through a Ripley’s Believe it or Not book when I read a quote typed below a photograph of Ludwig van Beethoven that caught my eye. It stated that three Austrian business men had commissioned him to write some music. Instead of paying him for writing the piece, they gave him money just for walking every day from sunrise to noon. They didn’t compensate him to compose music because they believed the secret to creating a masterpiece had more to do with his ability to tap into the pure potential of his creativity and they were confident he could to this through the simple act of walking.

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Inspirational Moments – March 2011

Have you thought about walking the Camino but don’t want to go alone?

You can walk the Camino with Sue Kenney.
A mystical journey.
A pilgrimage.
10 days.
July 2011.

Read on for more about this journey.

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Inspirational Moments – February 2011

I love this story, and want to share it with our readers.
- Sue

“The Chinese Bamboo Metaphor”

Those of us who have a sense of movement in the grassroots, feel the energy grow before the dream materializes. In my advocacy of a UN NGO World Conference on Women and Girls as a means toward gender equity and feminine values, I believe that the Chinese bamboo metaphor fits the situation.If you sow seeds of this type on fertile ground, you have to be very patient. Nothing happens for years; there are no green shoots or any sign at all for the first, second, third, or fourth year. The fifth year, something green pushes through the soil, and then it grows 40 feet in one year! The reason is simple, for years nothing happens on the surface, but the bamboo is developing prodigious roots until it is ready to manifest in the world. This is what bottom-up grassroots change looks like when a critical mass is reached. Activism is an antidote against despair; whatever you do consciously to make a difference is doing something. As Vaclav Havel, playwright and first post-Communist Czech president defined it: Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of the heart. It is not the certainty that something will turn out well, but the conviction that something makes sense, no matter how it turns out.

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