Susan notes: I love the creative forces within me and around me. But sometimes I find it hard to access those forces or use them to their full potential. These few paragraphs from The Daily Om (Subscribe to The Daily Om here) gave me another way to help get my creative juices flowing.

Sometimes fear blocks creativity. To understand how, take a moment to imagine yourself telling a story. First, imagine telling the story to someone you love and who loves you. 

Susan notes: The late Audrey Hepburn, one of the most beautiful women ever (inside AND out), is said to have offered this timeless advice below.

However, like many things circulated by email and/or found on the Internet, it would appear that the words have been falsely attributed to the simply gorgeous Hepburn.

Jan 18, 2012: to me, the image of the Tianamen Square Tank Man epitomizes the David and Goliath struggle of the weak and vulnerable against the strong and powerful.

Today, thousands of sites including Wikipedia, went black in protest of anti-free speech legislation in the United States.

This video story from Al Jazeera and reported in Maktoob Business about Malalai Joya, an Afghan woman with major attitude: