Inspiration
Who Inspires L.A. McMurray
Viktor E. Frankl
“Man’s Search for Meaning”
Eckhart Toole
“Practicing The Power of Now”
Michael Singer
“Untethered Soul”
Jim Collins
“What to Make of a Life”
This insightful book is a cumulation of years of personal and professional research that explains following our “encoding” and staying “in frame” leads to the most fulfilled life. Everyone experiences cliffs, fog, and fire and we live through those times is shaped by our environment and genes. He shares researching and writing this book enabled him to understand his own distant and complicated father.
Cynthia Erivo
“Simply More”
This monumental stage and screen talent who played Elphaba in “Wicked for Good” is an equally gifted author. This book encourages us to be “more” ourselves. Her passion, authenticity, and chromesthesia (where sounds
involuntarily evoke an expression of color) are awe inspiring.
Jack Kerouac
“On the Road” or “Lonesome Traveler” or “The Dharma Bums” or honestly any book written by Jack Kerouac. His storytelling and use of the English language are the precursor to Bob Dylan’s ticker tape synesthesia, a crossing of sensory pathways, where they see words as one stream of thought.
Clara Hughes
“Open Heart, Open Mind”
Marianne Monson
“Frontier Grit”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Man Without a Country”
What Inspires L.A. McMurray
“Little Miss Sunshine”
From 2006. It’s funny, it’s real, it’s unique and takes place on an unforgettable road trip in a VW van.
“Will and Harper”
From 2024, is one of the best friendship road trip movies ever. Every human should have a friend like Will Ferrel. It’s humorous, poignant, enlightening, and inspiring. It’s the blueprint for the perfect road trip.
“Thelma and Louise”
From 1991, because of their adventurous spirit and friendship of two women who innocently go on a weekend trip that turns into layers of much more.
Quotes
“All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.”.
Jack Kerouac
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.”
Angela N. Blount