Inspirational Storytellers - Featuring regular contributions by Inspirational Authors, Poets and Stories via Art.

I am a frequent Interstate traveler. I was born in Ontario, Canada and thus all my family except husband and children live there. So three times a year I make a trek north from Georgia to visit. I often travel by myself as my…

Recently, I bumped into acquaintance at a road race while waiting for the results to be posted. We engaged in some small talk, which brought up her weekend plans.  She mentioned that one of her grandchildren was celebrating his 20th…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK5-b6ILNdg Hi my name is Louis, this is my story. I'm a dancer from Vancouver, Canada and I made A Dance Transformation video where I took over 100 classes in 10 months in hopes to win a scholarship to…

When tragedy strikes, it knocks you off your feet and sometimes paralyses you so that you will never rise again. It leaves you out of breath, numb and so scared that you can't even remember how you got where it flung you. And as if you…

https://youtu.be/cKjK1OYKZHw 10 year old Capri Everitt and her family will be travelling around the world to 80 countries where she will be singing the national anthem in the national language of each of these 80 countries. All…

A few years ago, I was offered a job by a very sweet and wonderful woman who has created her own successful business. Since I had worked with her before and loved it, I would have welcomed the opportunity to work with her again…But, I did…

Alison Frazier Rook, my daughter, turned 40 on February 9th, 2016.  To celebrate her 40th birthday, she set a goal to gift 40 wheelchairs in 40 days to people with disabilities around the world who have not had access to any means of…

Deep in the woods lived a herd of deer. One day they heard the apple tree calling to them. They held council about the matter, for out of the woods and under an oak tree lived a ferocious beast: Sketi. The herd was terrified of Sketi, who…

What kinds of words resonate in your head? Do they lift you, move you or fill you with dread? Is your sub-conscious a cocktail of loathing and denial? Do you constantly judge and stand yourself on trial? For words…

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.…

She’s sitting outside her hut, cross-legged on dried grasses and pine needles, when she hears the sound of hooves: clip clop clippity clop clippity clop clip clop. She’s got a basket of purple mushrooms that she’s stringing up for drying. A…

Stop fleeting and doubting and changing your mind, You're missing so much, absorbed in the grind! Stop thinking small and selling yourself short, It's time to create all conquering thoughts! Have faith in yourself…

here I am again! stepping into this place of rolling waves and lightning surges coming from my heaving belly, inside me there is an earthquake taking with it expectation and resistance, they crash and change into an…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8fSOWyrbE A powerful Motivational speech compilation submitted by Tyrone Foster

One Saturday morning I was listening to a gardening programme on BBC Radio 4, Gardeners Question Time. In it they talked about onion blight in an allotment (in the UK this is a plot of land rented by an individual for growing vegetables or…