Inspire Possibility Show with Mark Susnow

PART 1:

Karen Drucker

Music to inspire and raise our souls. It was Mother Theresa who said, “We cannot do great things, only small things with love.” That is how Karen Drucker describes her purpose with her music. "If I am making a difference in some small way then I am happy."

I never would have thought that my first CD of chants would wind up all around the world and be used by so many people on a daily basis.

Her chants and songs have helped thousands deal with illness, loss, or just help them center for the day. 

PART 2:

Sherrie Lovler, award winning poet and artist shares her journey of finding inspiration through her art. Her new book, On Softer Ground: Paintings, Poetry and Calligraphy, won the most outstanding book design of the year from Independent Publishers IPPY Awards for 2016.

“Writing poetry is what I consider to be my spiritual practice. For the past eight years, on Tuesdays and Fridays upon waking, I make tea, sit with a book of wisdom and my poetry notebook. On these mornings I neither open the computer nor answer the phone. I read from this book—usually only a page or two—until something moves me, and I begin to write. My aim is not to write good poetry, it is to connect to something larger than myself. It is a call to my muse to tell her I am here, I am ready for her to flow through me. It is a doorway into that special place where the unknown happens.

My poetry inspires my paintings. I usually write the poem first and hold the words in me as I paint. Sometimes the painting comes first. The pairing of the two creates a home for both. There is a feeling of completeness when a painting finds a poem or a poem finds a painting. “