Fail to fail

January 31, 2016 Your Stories

Failure is a peculiar state of being. No one ever learns to succeed, they only learn not to fail—and this is done in a rather poor manner I might add. Sadly, this state is only achieved with practice through rigorous repetition. Mathematically, if one succeeds in one out of every ten ...

Letting It Come Through

January 9, 2016 Non-Fiction

It seems that most people I’ve met who say they are no good at drawing, usually admit to having been told this by a teacher at school when they were very young. It’s a shame we tend to grow up fulfilling other’s expectations of our abilities, or comparing ourselves to others, usually to our own detriment. Because ...

Happy New Year & Competition Winners!

January 1, 2016 Promotional

Happy New Year from the Team @ Inspirational Storytellers! May 2016 be your very best year yet!! Here at Storytellers we LOVE receiving your writing submissions! ....AND on that note...!!.... Announcing the winners of our Christmas Giveaway...each author winning a copy of Moyra's new book - Fiery Love! ...

Santa symbolizes all the "nice" we hold inside

December 19, 2015 Your Stories

As soon as we start to feel chill in the air and we see neighborhood houses decked out in holiday lights, we begin to feel the excitement of Christmas. And for children, it means they are about to be recognized for all the "good" they have shown over the last year...

At the Speed of Life

December 13, 2015 Non-Fiction

Shakespeare rightly remarked the world’s a stage and we are all actors playing our parts outlined by destiny, for us. It’s difficult to assess the range and quality of human emotion those bearing a joyful countenance may have grieves gnawing at their existence while a dull, idiotic looking person might be blissfully ...

Bombs at Christmas

December 11, 2015 Poetry ♥

So sad to wake up to The state that we’re in That bombs might be falling on ANY live skin Even anger and hatred are lost in this task What do we think? Well no-one’s actually asked The decision just made on all our behalf Love bombs, yes that’s how we’ll respond to this ...

I Want You in My Book!

December 9, 2015 Promotional

The Shticks Collector’s Edition is having its 8th anniversary this year since first publication in 2007. I have just revised and updated it, but to celebrate this new edition, I’m making a first-time, time-limited offer: I want you in it! Yes, I will draw you in my shtick cartoon style and prepare a special edition ...

The Journey

December 9, 2015 Poetry ♥

We walk beneath a starry sky, and wonder where that Child will lie. We seek the path, the brightest star, and know somehow it’s not too far. With frankincense gold and myrrh, we hear the sound of an Infant’s stir.

New Book Release! "Fiery Love"

December 8, 2015 Book Reviews

The much anticipated release of Moyra Irving's second book "Fiery Love" has finally arrived! We are delighted to announce Moyra's book is now available through Amazon. Pain and loss are part of the human condition. This compassionate guide to survival offers hope, inspiration and daily companionship for challenging times.

Be in to Win this Christmas!!

December 7, 2015 Non-Fiction

Share your Christmas Story with us and be in for a chance to win a copy of Moyra Irving's new book! "Fiery Love" Submit your Christmas story, poem or video to Inspirational Storytellers (by December 21st) and have the Inspirational Storyteller team judge the best three entries to each win a signed copy of Fiery Love.

A Merry Miracle

December 6, 2015 Your Stories

Our son, his wife and 3 grandkids had made their usual hurried, visit to our small camper where we now live with our small herd of 5 chihuahua rescues. Our son relocated his family here because there simply were not many employment opportunities back in Arizona. This was where they now sprouted roots and are making ...

Your Power of Influence

July 28, 2015 Non-Fiction

I have been led to share a wonderful story with you. However, this journey came with new challenges and self-reflection as I considered the "bigger picture" this story represents. Just prior to Mother’s Day this year, I began writing this story in memory of my Mom. As I progressed through the composition of this story, I ...

Child of the World

July 21, 2015 Poetry ♥

you are sometimes hungry sometimes rich sometimes your life is beautiful sometimes it’s a bitch you are the self in search of itself you are the one who helps and needs help you are the way growing inside of me everyday you are the path you are the road you are the one ready to explode you can’t keep ...

"The Last Post"

June 16, 2015 Fiction

23rd. November 1996: My dear Joanna, It was lovely to meet you at last. Your father, my darling Andrew, once showed me your photograph and, beautiful though it was, it hardly does you justice. I’d really like you to keep my letters to him, and should they be of interest, you must have Andrew’s letters...

Who

April 19, 2015 Non-Fiction

Here at Inspirational Storytellers we have responded to rumors that a certain Ms V. Shtick 'may' have been spotted in recent times checking out Florence Italy. We have (through a secret source) managed to locate some video footage showing Ms V. Shtick may just have been spotted in Florence checking out the sights and sounds...

The Power of a Smile and Laughter

February 24, 2015 Non-Fiction

Our ability to smile is a wonderful gift; it not only benefits the person producing the smile, but people they encounter as well. Have you ever noticed what happens when you pass a stranger who smiles at you? Most of us smile back; our disposition changes in a heartbeat! This can create a chain reacti...

Your Own Story

January 27, 2015 Poetry ♥

These fleeting words will flower Moss in her hair sea on her shoulder Fragments of dream keep me well Walking across great distances Feet of restless drums Necklaces clatter fingers scatter Prayers to the edge of the fading moon Star lights out one by one In the empty horizon I am Wind or confinement ...

Los Angeles Poet & Songwriter - Stephen Kalinich - on Poetry

December 15, 2014 Interviews

Stevie Kalinich on Poetry, Inspiration, Images and Words Expressing Feelings. Beautiful and inspiring interview and poetic rendition of the Galactic Symphony No 1: The Tale of Man.

"Writing Your Life Makes It Real"

November 12, 2014 Non-Fiction

Is it possible to weave a story of pain and despair into something beautiful, capable of inspiring others? The answer is Yes, if we are brave and open enough to change our perspective. Our angle of vision. Our perception. What’s done is done and already passed, but altering our perspective allows us to ...

I Paid Nothing for this Happiness

October 26, 2014 Non-Fiction

The Best Things in Life are Free #TheShticks #Satire #Humor #BestThingsInLifeAreFree #TheShtickettes

Can Other People Affect You?

October 11, 2014 Non-Fiction

Have you ever seen someone in a bad mood walk into a room and bring everyone in it down? The atmosphere in the entire room changes. Suddenly everyone becomes more irritable, on edge, and pessimistic. Likewise, a person in a great mood can walk in and make everyone feel better, lighter, and more optimistic. Suddenly people are ...

"Memoir as Soul Work"

August 1, 2014 Non-Fiction

All art is expression. All expression is a way of putting it “out there. As soon as we put it out there it’s no longer inside us, or merely inside us. It has been expressed outwardly. So we can now hear it, feel it, see it, touch it – outside of us. And so we get to know ourselves better...

Inspiration Never Leaves Us Where It Finds Us

June 23, 2014 Poetry ♥

Tenderness and listening are essential for the creative act to occur. This is what i believe- Tortured souls pass through our lives ; and they can drag us down if we are not aware or alert. We all get caught up in events and circumstances and we get swept into things. There is no time for breath.. each day is ...

Why Create ART?

May 15, 2013 Non-Fiction

Because we happened to move to New York City, and because my mother, who was from a small city in Central Illinois, was hungry for art and culture, I was exposed to the great museums when I was quite young. I can remember seeing Van Gogh and Renoir, Modigliani and El Greco, but no one quite moved me like Cezanne. I was ...

Emotions - A Choice

May 9, 2013 Non-Fiction

Some human emotions can be intoxicating and detrimental to our wellbeing. When we are overcome with anger, it may feel good, like being high on a drug, and it can be addictive. On the other hand, our emotions can also be supportive, liberating and life-enhancing. The affect depends on which ones we choose to immerse ...

Challenges Are Opportunities

April 13, 2013 Non-Fiction

Every challenge provides an opportunity for growth, and in some cases, a quantum leap. Many of us have a habit of looking at obstacles in life as bad things, and they can be when we look at them that way; on the other hand, when we look at life’s complications as opportunities for personal growth, our energy shifts, and so ...

We All Have A Purpose. What's Yours?

March 28, 2013 Non-Fiction

Are you marching to your music or someone else’s? If you are marching to the beat of someone else’s drum, I recommend that you find your own beat. Did you know that the word vocation stems from the Latin word vocatio, meaning “summons”? Look deep within, and consider whether what you are doing is in harmony with what ...

"Brief Shadow Song"

March 1, 2013 Poetry ♥

In this smoking dream, Unplug yourself from the ghost of life, All the entries that describe you, As the last person down the hall, No one understands....A stranger that travels beneath, The leather sun, All meaning extracted, From the corralled herd.

Illuminate the World

February 21, 2013 Non-Fiction

“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, you owe me… Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky!” … Hafiz. I just love this quote, it says so much in those few words, short and sweet and filled with beauty! I feel very good indeed when I read it, offering me an image of ...

The Daisy and the Oak Tree

January 11, 2013 Fiction

Not so long ago a beautiful spring daisy was born. She was full of awe and wonder at the beauty of the world and as she grew she asked questions about her wonderful world. Sadly many of those around her had fallen into a mundane life and lost their awe and wonder.

Guitar Man - Award Winning Inspirational Short Film

December 20, 2012 Videos ♥

A street musician, ‘Guitar Man’ has a gift for playing the blues on his guitar and connecting with others. His love for music and for people supercedes everything else in his life. Although on the surface he doesn’t have much, that doesn’t stop him from sharing two simple messages, ‘that we all have a lot in common...

"Story-Me"

July 12, 2012 Non-Fiction

Why should we write our stories? Because in the words of Baba Ram Dass : “Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story instead of the actor in it.” For now we are watching the action from above, or from the side, or from the wings. We have some distance. We are an observer...

"Awakening"

July 10, 2012 Fiction

Above the highest peak of the highest range of mountains in the world, somewhere beyond Heaven and Earth, dusk falls and a lone star appears in an amethyst sky. This peak is not known to many and has been climbed by fewer still. Yet here, somewhere beyond Heaven and Earth, is a State called Perfect Peace...

"The Girl Who Watched the Wind"

June 25, 2012 Fiction

A large group had gathered under the trees. They huddled together, collars upturned and fists drawn up into their sleeves for warmth. Close by stood a small girl, a scrap of a thing, in a shabby old coat. As trees wavered, adrift in the squall, she covered her face, peering through fingers at the gathering...

A Painted Story (video)

May 20, 2012 Videos ♥

Brian Brogan is a rogue artist, a visionary that paints with energy. His pieces are primal, shamanistic; showing human’s indigenous spirituality and equality. Brian constantly pushes color and texture. He works in a variety of mediums including paste, stucco, polymer and acrylics. Brian’s work is universal and crosses socioeconomic and cultural boundaries.