Archive for the Inspiration Category


Commonwheel Art Festival Marketing and Beer Garden Meetings

After my birthday weekend, I had lots of meetings before heading off to Salida for the Creative Industries Summit. Monday, April 28, I met with Rocky Mountain Highway coordinator for the Beer Garden at Trinity Brewery on Garden of the Gods. He had a meeting there and I had a meeting near there shortly after […]

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Hiking While Ignoring A Health Challenge

This last week I went a very different hike from the ones I have been taking with my usual hiking partner. The last one I took with her was very leisurely and easy filled with birds. That was a fun hike done just in time, as the next day it snowed about 4 inches and […]

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Festival Discussion at the Chamber & Commonwheel Work Day

I guess I am writing longer posts than anticipated, as I didn’t get to my full day at Commonwheel in the last post. Tuesday morning I had a meeting at the Manitou Springs Chamber or iManitou with Leslie to discuss issues relating to the Art Festival on Labor Day Weekend. I discussed the Beer Garden […]

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Connections to Health, Car and Trainings

I was really looking forward to my morning Earth Healing Group, but for some unknown reason, it was cancelled. I was looking for that that to keep me centered and calm as I drove my unfixed car to my Health Appointment. As I was getting ready earlier, I had started to put on a lotion […]

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Hike at the Paint Mines and a Car Challenge

I got up Monday morning and packed to go hiking and grabbed items for my accountant. Later I discovered I missed some getting items in my car for both places. Including the Chai I had set on my counter to wake me up. But fortunately I had put in all three of my rechargeable batteries […]

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Festival Meeting and a Really Long Webinar

I had three webinars with Tony Laidig this week. Each one was very different from the other. On Tuesday night for his Expert Media Show the topic was how to “Live in Balance” and Tony talked about some of his real life experiences that brought up emotions in him, in ways no other internet marketing […]

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Really Long Hike Among the Cedars and Old Spokes

 Hiked a hidden Trail in the Garden of the Gods. I am grateful that my hiking friend is really adventurous. I hadn’t been on this trail since before the flooding, so it was looking a wee bit different than I remembered. My friend hadn’t brought her hiking pole, but I have a driftwood stick with […]

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Two Urban Hikes Today One About Faith

I hiked over to the new home for Transition Town Manitou Springs with my Greek hiking friend. It is all about having faith. They are working on buying a half acre lot with a historic Victorian home on it that is in the flood path. The bridge was destroyed and water got very close to […]

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A Denver Adventure Selling Trust Items and Walking the Botanical Gardens

Denver has many businesses and cultural experiences that Colorado Springs is missing. I couldn’t find a really good place in Colorado Springs to sell some the items from my parent’s trust. So did a bunch of research on the internet and found a couple of Coin and Jewelry dealers in Denver that had high ratings. […]

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A Very Carnivale Day in FantaFaces Studio

I spent all day in my FantaFaces Studio in preparation for Carnivale in Manitou Springs. Oh, I was tempted when the weather was predicted to be the warmest day to go for a Hike. But I resisted that temptation and got into my FantaFaces studio. At first I was a bit distracted by doing some […]

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