First, he saw the stone on a dream... The next day, his oneiric experience morphed into a clear and crisp image, a vividly and sharp artistic visualization.

What is it? Is it just light that filters and flows through everything? or colors and tones that paint it all? or the forces of nature, sometimes sleeping giants, some others, roaring thunder.

When things couldn’t be worse or more dire. When all our strengths and fortitudes are gone, Hope is what always pulls us through. Hope is how we outlast adversity and overcome every and any obstacle. Hope is the life vest of our spirit and soul. Hope is always our passport to freedom from the shackles of our mind and the chains of hardship.

In the realm of Violins, Violas, and Cellos, there was once an art-crafter extraordinaire -A Luthier- to whom there was no equal in the whole wide world. His name was Leo Schoeffer. He was born in a small town called Mittenwald in the region of Bavaria, Southern Germany.

Life is like a circus with the same exact cast of characters popping out of its book pages. We are surrounded by “ringmasters” pulling strings, building, and running civilization. We find “acrobats” like equilibrists or trapezists

One way or another, we all chase, some of us relentlessly, wealth, fame and love, in this exact order of importance. These life illusions don't always present themselves in such a prescribed pecking order. Fact is, we never know who shows up first, or if any of them will ever make itself present, at all.

Optimism is a deliberate attitude where we chose to contemplate life and its people, through their best lights, colors, and mantels. It is a predisposition to look, search and find, the better angle and perspective, on everything and everyone.

To be inspired is to be continuously and blissfully happy, to inhale profoundly and feel really, really good inside as we sigh in joy to the sweet taste of purely and simply being alive. Living an inspired life is a gift, a magic incantation that makes us life sorcerers, the kind that asks for nothing, but dispense wizardry back in spades.