What inspires you?

What inspires you? That is the question that came to my mind this lovely morning (or afternoon depending on your time zone) out here at Priest Lake. It is my last full day here before I fly back to DC tomorrow morning, but since first day that I truly got to lay my eyes on the beauty and grandeur of this place, I knew I was in love with it. Seems sad to leave it so soon, but I found the peaceful movement of the water, the mountains and trees surrounding it, and the wild life, to be quite inspirational but I could not really find the words until today.

I knew I wanted to express that warm feeling I felt inside that this view inspired...

Then it occurred to me to ask the question: what inspires you?

Sure it is different for everyone and even for me it depends on the day, the week, the month, the year. Still I wanted to answer the question.

so here is a list of the things that I find inspiring:

• Quotes, preferably the love kind.  Quotes I love by Mother Theresa: "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." or "If you judge people, you have no time to love them"
• Music, whenever I paint, I listen to music. Even if I feel no inspiration at all, I turn on some music and if I'm not painting, then I'm dancing.
• A nice glass of wine, nothing really needs to be added to that, but again when I paint, it helps a great deal.
• Church/Prayer: The Lord is one of my biggest inspirations. As I've said in a few instances in my life, all the forms of artistic expression that I take part in (dance, writing, painting, etc) are my forms of prayer and thanks to him.
• My son: Although it is harder to concentrate on things when he's around being rambunctious as ever, I still find inspiration from all that storm of energy he possesses. 
• Scenery like the one I'm witnessing now. When I get back I'll upload the pictures just so you can see what I mean. 

There is the list, what inspires you? Feel free to share! Have a wonderful day!!