Susan Lax's Blog
December 23, 2022
It is not Always Easy to Combat the Brutal Winds
Dec 21
Winter here in New York is cold, the wind shouts with a fierceness at the corner of my block.
It is not always easy to combat the brutal winds.
Catching my breath can be a battle in itself.
Finding a way to get through them is definitely a challenge for me.
I have figured out a system that enables my mind to cheer my body on, as the cold, loud winds try and push me back.
As I begin to approach that exact place, the wind’s starting point, I switch mind gears.
Thinking about one accomplishment I achieved that day.
One moment that I was my own champion.
Almost instantly the speed and battle with nature ease up.
I find my steps quicken and time brings me to the door of my building.
Sometimes I catch myself smiling as I arrive, feeling a winner like achievement.
During the holiday season, some can feel the strong winds of grief, hardship and soul challenges shouting loudly.
They too, may try and push you back, attempt to stop you from taking a step forward.
The difficulty of a new breath becomes so very real.
You are that one accomplishment.
You have already taken that one step you didn’t think you could.
Chosen the sweetness only a new breath could offer.
Your accomplishment is in every moment you said I will, I can.
You are the hero of your own moment.
That is an accomplishment that should be celebrated at least once a day.
This season turn your heart and mind focus to acknowledge the champion of your moment, you.
As 2022 is coming to an end 2023 awaits us with one moment at a time one achievement at a time.
From My Morning Inspiration, a wish for you, me and all of humanity:
May you walk the road of compassion ,kindness and self-love.
May you walk the road of patience, acceptance, peace and justice.
May you walk the road of hope, courage, laughter and connection.
May you walk the road accompanied by our dreams, the road of quietude and calm.
May you walk the road of gratitude and awareness.
May the blue skies above, embrace you as you travel your road.
Winter here in New York is cold, the wind shouts with a fierceness at the corner of my block.
It is not always easy to combat the brutal winds.
Catching my breath can be a battle in itself.
Finding a way to get through them is definitely a challenge for me.
I have figured out a system that enables my mind to cheer my body on, as the cold, loud winds try and push me back.
As I begin to approach that exact place, the wind’s starting point, I switch mind gears.
Thinking about one accomplishment I achieved that day.
One moment that I was my own champion.
Almost instantly the speed and battle with nature ease up.
I find my steps quicken and time brings me to the door of my building.
Sometimes I catch myself smiling as I arrive, feeling a winner like achievement.
During the holiday season, some can feel the strong winds of grief, hardship and soul challenges shouting loudly.
They too, may try and push you back, attempt to stop you from taking a step forward.
The difficulty of a new breath becomes so very real.
You are that one accomplishment.
You have already taken that one step you didn’t think you could.
Chosen the sweetness only a new breath could offer.
Your accomplishment is in every moment you said I will, I can.
You are the hero of your own moment.
That is an accomplishment that should be celebrated at least once a day.
This season turn your heart and mind focus to acknowledge the champion of your moment, you.
As 2022 is coming to an end 2023 awaits us with one moment at a time one achievement at a time.
From My Morning Inspiration, a wish for you, me and all of humanity:
May you walk the road of compassion ,kindness and self-love.
May you walk the road of patience, acceptance, peace and justice.
May you walk the road of hope, courage, laughter and connection.
May you walk the road accompanied by our dreams, the road of quietude and calm.
May you walk the road of gratitude and awareness.
May the blue skies above, embrace you as you travel your road.
January 11, 2022
An Exciting Day
Tomorrow A Heart's Landscape, An Invitation to the Garden of Moments will spread her wings!
I am truly excited that she will find a home with readers and offer them a moment of joy, awareness and compassion.
It is my hope that this book will be there for that exact moment when a hand is needed, self nurturing is desired and the soul longs for a good belly laugh.
Inspiration connects us, may the pages of A Heart's Landscape connect human spirits across oceans.
I am truly excited that she will find a home with readers and offer them a moment of joy, awareness and compassion.
It is my hope that this book will be there for that exact moment when a hand is needed, self nurturing is desired and the soul longs for a good belly laugh.
Inspiration connects us, may the pages of A Heart's Landscape connect human spirits across oceans.
January 2, 2022
"HE WANTED TO FLY"
Morning Inspiration holds stories and poems from my life’s moments-
My book A Heart’s Landscape - is a collection of Morning Inspirations and inspirational photographs that partner with these moments.
This is from one of these stories:
“He wanted to fly, confident all he needed was a cape.
Haircut over, he decided to fly, no cape needed
Running across their kitchen floor, he flew with the elegance only imagination can offer, straight into his mother’s arms.
Today and every day, trust the force that can help you fly, and the gentle voice that reminds you to enjoy the flight.”
I invite you to visit with the many moments that stay with our heart❤️
To sign up for Morning Inspiration and learn more about A Heart’s Landscape: https://susanplax.com/
My book A Heart’s Landscape - is a collection of Morning Inspirations and inspirational photographs that partner with these moments.
This is from one of these stories:
“He wanted to fly, confident all he needed was a cape.
Haircut over, he decided to fly, no cape needed
Running across their kitchen floor, he flew with the elegance only imagination can offer, straight into his mother’s arms.
Today and every day, trust the force that can help you fly, and the gentle voice that reminds you to enjoy the flight.”
I invite you to visit with the many moments that stay with our heart❤️
To sign up for Morning Inspiration and learn more about A Heart’s Landscape: https://susanplax.com/
December 22, 2021
KIRKUS REVIEW!
So excited to share this beautiifyl KIrkus Review:
""...uplifting pensées featuring reassuring words and captivating images. Readers will find this collection to be an energizing daily constitutional for the soul." - Kirkus Reviews
A collection of uplifting pensées featuring reassuring words and captivating images.
Lax, a meditation teacher and spiritual coach, offers a selection from her “Morning Inspiration” email newsletter of daily reflections, accompanied by her own photographs. The brief musings, arranged in no particular order, are inspired by everyday encounters and recollections of her life and family. They run the gamut of inspirational themes, including the importance of living in the moment, the pleasures of spontaneity (especially impromptu dancing), the acceptance of one’s faults, and the necessity of offering love and compassion inclusively. She also addresses the beauty of nature in her native Israel and in the United States, where she lives now. Lax’s prose poems offer a variety of moods, the most common being blithe celebration—“today, enjoy a skip around the room; be enthusiastic about yourself.” There are also warmhearted aphorisms: “Gift yourself a moment to smile for no reason; The reasons may grow and grow.” There are playful accounts of humorous moments, as when the author arrived breathlessly from a bathroom pit stop to deliver a lecture only to learn that that “my dress had gotten caught up in my leggings and my rear was practically exposed to all.”
There’s an occasional tone of sonorous abstraction (“Call upon your inner luminosity to guide you”), but the author also, more effectively, captures human contact with evocative specificity. At her best, Lax deftly conveys subtle but moving emotional crosscurrents, as in a spare portrait of her mother in-law: “She was a survivor, not a fan of tears. Tears were a sign of weakness, showing the absence of courage and bravery. For her, life was about survival. Tears stood in the way of survival.” The accompanying photos are beguiling, with sun-dappled seascapes, forest and mountain scenes, and lots of flowers, all rendered in lush color.
Overall, many readers will find this collection to be an energizing daily constitutional for the soul. Rich words of wisdom on life and happiness.-KIRKUS REVIEW
""...uplifting pensées featuring reassuring words and captivating images. Readers will find this collection to be an energizing daily constitutional for the soul." - Kirkus Reviews
A collection of uplifting pensées featuring reassuring words and captivating images.
Lax, a meditation teacher and spiritual coach, offers a selection from her “Morning Inspiration” email newsletter of daily reflections, accompanied by her own photographs. The brief musings, arranged in no particular order, are inspired by everyday encounters and recollections of her life and family. They run the gamut of inspirational themes, including the importance of living in the moment, the pleasures of spontaneity (especially impromptu dancing), the acceptance of one’s faults, and the necessity of offering love and compassion inclusively. She also addresses the beauty of nature in her native Israel and in the United States, where she lives now. Lax’s prose poems offer a variety of moods, the most common being blithe celebration—“today, enjoy a skip around the room; be enthusiastic about yourself.” There are also warmhearted aphorisms: “Gift yourself a moment to smile for no reason; The reasons may grow and grow.” There are playful accounts of humorous moments, as when the author arrived breathlessly from a bathroom pit stop to deliver a lecture only to learn that that “my dress had gotten caught up in my leggings and my rear was practically exposed to all.”
There’s an occasional tone of sonorous abstraction (“Call upon your inner luminosity to guide you”), but the author also, more effectively, captures human contact with evocative specificity. At her best, Lax deftly conveys subtle but moving emotional crosscurrents, as in a spare portrait of her mother in-law: “She was a survivor, not a fan of tears. Tears were a sign of weakness, showing the absence of courage and bravery. For her, life was about survival. Tears stood in the way of survival.” The accompanying photos are beguiling, with sun-dappled seascapes, forest and mountain scenes, and lots of flowers, all rendered in lush color.
Overall, many readers will find this collection to be an energizing daily constitutional for the soul. Rich words of wisdom on life and happiness.-KIRKUS REVIEW
December 21, 2021
Don't Tell Me...
"Don't tell me it will be fine.
Don't tell me it will all work out.
Just sit here beside me and hold my hand.
For in your grasp . I find the courage and bravery
to make my next moment a good one."
Words from A Heaart's Landscape-one of many Morning Inspirations.
When I write, my heart is attentive to a moment I witnessed, I moment I heard or a moment I felt.
Sometimes it is just in the presence of silent compassion that one can feel the courage she needs .
Don't tell me it will all work out.
Just sit here beside me and hold my hand.
For in your grasp . I find the courage and bravery
to make my next moment a good one."
Words from A Heaart's Landscape-one of many Morning Inspirations.
When I write, my heart is attentive to a moment I witnessed, I moment I heard or a moment I felt.
Sometimes it is just in the presence of silent compassion that one can feel the courage she needs .
December 16, 2021
Introducing Morning Inspiration
When ever I am asked how I started writing Morning Inspiration, my heart smiles.
For I had no idea that those first "Morning Blessings" would birth Morning Inspiration and a book to follow:A Heart's Landscape.
In a heart desire to help a dear friend touched by cancer I started writing daily emails filled with opportunities to bring her a moment of joy.
Morning Inspiration since then has grown and evolved.It is received by wonderful souls all over the world.My photographs are another source of inspiration for me so I have added them to the book.
It is my intent that with this collection of Morning Inspirations and photographs will offer a moment of comfort,joy and calm to all those that desire one.
I hope you take a moment for you and let your heart explore the gifts of awareness.
To learn more please visit :
https://susanplax.com/
For I had no idea that those first "Morning Blessings" would birth Morning Inspiration and a book to follow:A Heart's Landscape.
In a heart desire to help a dear friend touched by cancer I started writing daily emails filled with opportunities to bring her a moment of joy.
Morning Inspiration since then has grown and evolved.It is received by wonderful souls all over the world.My photographs are another source of inspiration for me so I have added them to the book.
It is my intent that with this collection of Morning Inspirations and photographs will offer a moment of comfort,joy and calm to all those that desire one.
I hope you take a moment for you and let your heart explore the gifts of awareness.
To learn more please visit :
https://susanplax.com/
