“Love never ends, it only changes the way it reaches us.”

The last sunrise of October always spreads a quiet brilliance across the lake.
It feels like breath itself, slow, full, deliberate, I just know the whole world is pausing to remember a soul who once walked it in laughter and light.

Today marks the day he entered this life, the day everything shifted and began.
The air carries him, the sun reflects him, the pulse of water repeats his rhythm.

He came curious, asking more of love, of people, of the world.
He lived in discovery: fearless, tender and creatively honest.
He touched chaos and turned it into courage.
He touched pain and turned it into purpose.
He touched hearts and turned them toward life.

Five years of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia did not take his fire.
It refined it.
He showed how strength is not defiance but devotion,
to truth, to kindness, to the beauty of simply being alive.

Even after his body released him, he stayed in every shimmer of connection.
He taught me how to listen beyond sound, how to meet in the invisible.
He taught me that creation is the place where perception softens itself
and that is where we meet now, beyond the edge of words,
where love becomes design and presence becomes light.

When tears come, they are not endings, they are gateways.
Each one opens to the reminder: He is always here.
He is not missing, he has only moved into the space between breaths.

So please, lets pause together for my son “Zakary Ryan”
a breath in, a breath out
and offer a thought, a smile, a whisper of gratitude
for a life that continues to teach how beautiful it is to live both here and beyond.

Within the next few breathes breathe in love and out forgiveness, surrender yourself to more and allow grace to be your guide.

To all of you that have written in the last few days and have not heard any response, it is because I take this as a sacred pause for me and for Zak, I have been cleansing for 7 weeks now for this time, to renew, rejuvenate and enter his birthday with a celebration of presence and peace and extra space for our souls to speak.

I will be back to answer every one of you personally very soon. Thank you for supporting my writing and me during this fabulous month of so many wonderful inspirations and November will open a new series, I hope you to see you all there.

To my boy who became a man and taught me how to show up with tears and with laughter, all at once. I am forever grateful everyday for the spaces and places you showed me you would be and how to find you with more than my eyes and ears. You just knew!

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow begins November, the month of carrying his light forward, where every new dawn becomes another way to say thank you. I LOVE YOU FOREVER and INFINITELY!