Live large, shine bright, dance—all the time. Never dull your sparkle. Laugh, giggle, make fun of yourself, be childlike and playful, and then be strong like a bull when needed. Empower yourself by speaking your mind, even if your voice shakes. Follow your dreams, travel far and wide. The world is there to teach us… Continue reading Wisdom
Converse Lee Kelley
My brother Lee died unexpectedly last month. Of all things, a scorching heat wave rolled through and took his life. I was on my annual vacation visiting our childhood home in Hawaii when I got the call. "Auntie Rachael, Lee is missing." My heart stopped. Lee is lost somewhere with the entire Pacific Ocean between… Continue reading Converse Lee Kelley
Grace
As much as I have resisted it, mid-life has a way of shaking you to your core. Friends die of cancer. We experience betrayal, and some of us divorce. As hard as it is, some of us are lucky to be able to support our parents while we watch their slow decline while others have… Continue reading Grace
Apology to you, little one.
Hey there, little one. Yes, you—you with your chubby little toes and long, curly auburn hair. The little being filled with dreams and aspirations for a bright, beautiful future. A future brimming with endless possibilities, as infinite as the deep, blue magnetic sea you used to gaze at as a little girl in Hawaii. I… Continue reading Apology to you, little one.
The two dreaded words. Gun Reform.
The two dreaded words. Gun Reform. Anyone who knows me personally knows that I am a passionate person. I have two stepdaughters in high school now who I care a great deal about who could potentially be impacted by our country's negligence in protecting our children This last one in Houston is too close to… Continue reading The two dreaded words. Gun Reform.
Creating a piece of art called life…
A daily ritual of meditation has been a spiritual practice and a building block of peace and serenity in my life. Attempting to stay in the present moment with love and gratitude and not going back to the past in regret or sadness is part of that practice. Life has a way of planting us… Continue reading Creating a piece of art called life…
Raise your vibration
'As you perceive something, you give birth to a thought and this thought now thinks. Now that it exists, now that it has been conjured, now that it has been focused, now it vibrates. By the law of Quantum Physics, other thoughts that are vibrationally the same will come to it.So it begins its expansion… Continue reading Raise your vibration
Gratitude
Gratitude~ One of my favorite Authors, Don Miguel Ruiz, the father of Toltec wisdom says "Our emotions are real; the voice of knowledge that makes us suffer is not. Our suffering is true, but the reason why we suffer may not be true at all." This got me to thinking about the all elusive, ever-changing… Continue reading Gratitude
This is not philosophy, this is physics…
Imagination is always manufacturing scenarios both good and bad and the ego tries to keep you trapped in the multiplex of the mind. Our eyes are not only viewers, they are also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing… Continue reading This is not philosophy, this is physics…
Love is what we are born with…
If there is only one thing we can all agree on at this time, it is that there is a whole hell of a lot of fear-based thinking being passed around in the collective consciousness. Fear of Trump. Fear of Hillary. Fear of terrorism. Fear of the divisiveness in our Country here in the states.… Continue reading Love is what we are born with…
Rachael Kelley 