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A BIKE

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A bike appears it’s not mine, but it invites my curiosity to journey reciprocity.

This bike was made specifically for adventure and movement, it offers the opportunity of joy, freedom, exploration, healing and believing.

This bike has detoured miles with me now, receiving mountains, rivers and experiencing the heat of over 100 degrees for hours and hours.

This bike has felt my tears, it has my feet prints, my handprints, it knows my cadence.

When my legs push on those pedals I can feel my feet push so hard it radiates power through my body from the tips of my fingers to the tips of my toes.

It is the blood flow and mind flow, the mindful life glow that urges me to step harder, to breathe more, to feel the power at that moment.

All that matters at the moment is the connection between my heart and mind and the power I put into my two soles and behind.

This bike is a vehicle to the destiny I have been preparing my whole life for.

 The vehicle that quietly without expectation gifted me a path to another step in my life.

No defense or offense, it has no feeling, no agenda, no expectation just invitation to ride it all out.

There is freedom to go fast or slow, to use power or carry me when I want to coast and trust the flow.

Passion from head to toe, it takes me where I want to go, it found me when I didn’t even know.

How did a bike that is not my own give me something I have never known?

The builder of this bike intentionally built it for us to ride.

The inventor of this bike wanted more freedom inside.

This invention was built with purpose to make a dream come alive.

The owner of this bike you see purchased a gift he had no idea he would receive.

However the inventor of this bike knew it would touch more than a few.

It started with a thought.

It created an action.

It gifted a reaction.

It inspired traction.

Believe in your thought.

Create an action that will draw a reaction.

Be mindful of the attraction.

Be intentional with interaction.

I didn’t know that someone else’s bike, inspired by someone else’s dream would give me the most intentional insight into my destiny midstream.

Bask in the beauty of your intention.

Fuel it with an invention.

Let love be the extension.

SUNSHINES EVERYDAY!

Let Go

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Let go of what was so what is has room to move into what will be.

Kerri Elizabeth

The beauty of the day, it shows up for you, do you show up too.

The sunshine is always on the way, healing power in the rays.

The rain will fall, dance in it and love it all.

The wind will blow; let it clear the air for all.

The lightning will strike, the beauty and power in its force is a reminder there are times we have to change our course.

The thunder shakes the ground, feel it all around.

Can your heart be found?

Are you listening to your inner sound?

Letting go of what was and allowing what is.

Letting go of possibility and having intention.

Letting go of assumption and allowing acceptance,

Letting go of need and allowing desire.

Letting go of what if and allowing bravery to say yes.

Letting go of what could be and making it sure to be.

Letting go of I can’t and allowing what I can.

Letting go of mistakes and allowing them to be your greatness place.

A mistake is a learning place, you learn or you grow, embrace the challenge of what you don’t know.

Letting go of hurry and enjoy the journey.

Love with your full heart.

Live with curiosity.

Experience more.

Go explore.

Be bold.

Never get old.

LOVE ,SUNSHINE

LOVE IS

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Love has no hold on you, love is the letting go of what used to be the hold in you.

KERRI ELIZABETH

What is Love to you?

Love is a free flowing never ending abundance of life.

Love is grace.

Love is freedom to be you and me.

Love is an openness to receive.

Love gives us room to breathe.

Love gives us space to grow and believe.

Love never controls you, it flows in and out of you.

Love is a recycled hardship.

Love is a feeling.

Love is where we came from.

Love is fun.

Love is an action.

Love is a moment.

Love is a motion.

Love is a current.

Love is energy.

Love is a flower in bloom.

Love is you me and the moon.

Love is the first star that shines.

Love is thunder in a storm.

Love is where you are in current form.

Love is you.

Love is me.

Love is a choice to see.

Love has no hold on you, love is the letting go of the hold that used to be in you.

Love is the accepting of the truth.

Love is authentically fearlessly forgiving of your past residue and ready for the NOW to be in clear view.

Love is a gift and it’s you, just close your eyes and let the truth fuel YOU!

SUNSHINE , THUNDER and FIRE, embrace the experience and let it INSPIRE!

Laugh and Smile

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JUST SMILE IT CHANGES EVERYTHING!

 Kerri Elizabeth

Send a smile, create a laugh.

Leave a hug and get one back.

Kiss a cheek, hug someone, and laugh until you come undone.

Breathe in joy; breathe out love, laughter and smiles make life seriously fun.

The energy you give is a bonus in life for someone.

The gift of love and life you have is multiplied with laughter shed.

Giggle power carries a powerful punch; it fills your belly, tightens the core, and leaves fuel for more.

Laughter, giggling, smiling and hugging, they all give life to anyone receiving.

Exchanging the power of all these things creates love revolving and inspiring heartstrings.

When heartstrings play music there is no limit to the creating of life in every minute.

Keep the music playing, keep the beat inside going, let the song be music to your ears; it’s all of this together that keeps your body dancing through the years.

Sometimes you just have to keep it simple, laugh and smile and hug it out, leave a kiss on the cheek to make it complete.

Stand up, stand tall, let go and let love be part of it all.

There will be reminders in each day that every day is different and that every day carries an opportunity again.

If a resistant to a situation happens because you don’t want it twice, the solution is to take some good advice.

 What if taking a breath and reflecting on a way to make what you don’t want go away is not the answer at all?

 It’s the simple way you just laugh and smile and let go that allows the response to lovingly flow.

It’s in the different way we perceive and respond that gives us a chance to receive what went right not wrong.

What is wrong is really right when we perceive it in a different light.

It’s an opportunity to grow, so allow it and then let it go.

Thank you for the great advice and accepting the loving invite, fire in my sky!!

Capturing Moments After a Long Eclipse

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Awareness and presence are a gift you receive when your eclipse passes and your light is seen.

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The beauty

The light

The darkness

The sun

The moon

The stars

The ocean

The sea

The land

The trees

Let the beauty be felt in every breeze.

Reflect, see, feel, be, pray, meditate, laugh, cry, and raise your hands to the sky.

In everything there is always more, the infinite thoughts inside a sunset or sunrise, they can take you where ever you want to go with inspiration to explore.

There is no stopping the possibilities that lay in front or beyond the horizon, the infinite is awaiting for the awareness to awaken.

Stop and challenge your imagination, create possibilities where limits once were.

Create love where misunderstandings took hold.

Create joy where sadness once stayed.

Create laughter where a tear has stained.

Create healing where a heart was torn.

Create a hug that lives within even after the physical touch has left your skin.

The feelings are where it takes hold; the rest is a perception from the site we have controlled.

Create a way to move forward where you felt like hardship knocked you out.

Create deeper love where it seemed the surface could not be penetrated beyond doubt.

Open your thoughts to receive more where fear can not win anymore.

Challenge the sunset to another one, I promise that it never fails, every day it stays consistent, you can count on it with its pure persistence.

Living life without remembering you’re significant is like living in an eclipse you’ll see you are the participant.

Have you ever just driven and by habit you went the old way and realized you actually wanted to go a new way?

You had to turn back, you missed the exit, now your late and in a rush and realize you weren’t present or aware enough.

Action and presence are awareness and love.

Are you living your life in your own made up eclipse, perfectly designed for you to not have to emotionally exist?

Are you aware of your place your presence and your grace; are you living and learning with every embrace?

If faced without a title, a job and a home, without responsibilities and a place around you as a comfort zone, how would you manage the next phase, into the new unlimited possibilities maze?

Think about who you are without everything around you, let the eclipse move the past and not stay on you!

Shine brighter every day while you let go and be open to the eclipse passing exactly the way it is supposed to.

RAISE (not rays) SUNSHINE!

Are You Right?

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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply.

Steven R. Covey

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Are you right or are you loving right?

In the grand scheme of things would you argue and debate to be right or be a lover of listening and hearing and sharing your light?

Can you share your light and let it be only your right and let go from there so love doesn’t tear?

Is to be right what is really important to you, or is to be heard right sound intriguing too?

To continue a point you are passionate about until someone says, “yes you’re right”, is that the actual outcome you’re looking for by the end of the night?

What if we let go of the need for others to see we are right, what would you lose or possibly gain in trust to only one that remains?

What if being right wasn’t the ultimate goal and seeing the smile on someone’s face meant so much more?

Listening to the process of others learning, thinking and experiencing and being a part of doing is the beauty of offering and accepting what has created the right in you.

We weren’t born with all the knowledge we have today, we learned it, listened to it, experienced it, processed it, shared it, felt it, let it challenge us and shape us.

Each person is deserving of sharing their passion and knowledge, to give to receive to know we matter.

As we exchange ideas letting go of who’s right a place is created where,” Ultimate Love” is the only right.

 Receiving love in listening is a deep love given, it’s a gift no one forgets and a gift to be thankful when it’s given, left without regrets this love gives continued learning and living.

Is being right really hearing?

Is being right a place you grow?

Is being right really getting down to the core of what matters?

Is being right costing you more than you can afford?

What is your cost to being right?

Are you fighting to be loved and no one is listening and in turn not letting love in, to even begin, or is being right really where love ends and or begins?

So many questions and answers, there is only one that is right, could it be or you?

A valuable lesson from a heart to a heart, the question was asked in a time and a place, “What could I do to be a better mom”, I asked my son.

He answered me quite honestly without even a moment to spare, “Mom the only thing I would change, is that you would listen more the first time and not need to be right, just hear and sometimes let me feel I’m right.”

This hit hard, he was right, at what cost had I fought for my right to be his?

This was a teachable moment for me he wanted me to listen and to lovingly debate so he could find his place and his right, I finally heard it and got it that night.

No matter how right I thought I always was, what mattered most in this time was that his right was that being heard was being loved and I got it this time.

To be heard and to hear is a learning curve
; it’s our own voice and spirit that move inside processing all that has come through in time.

Does anyone know better than you exactly what you feel to be true?

Does anyone know better than you the experiences and perception inside of you?

What if all it took to be right was to listen and be heard so we could take flight?

What if what you processed from all of this was the journey to accept the conversation right?

Taking the time to understand and learn where someone else is concerned, gives more than standing so firm that you miss what may be your biggest lesson learned.

A little “raise” of sunshine to think about, let me know your right, the challenge to change and grow, to learn and to show, to have the empowerment to love and let go, I invite it, lets go!

Through My Child’s Eyes

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The journey of life is seen beautifully through the eyes of a child and the voice of their heart when you learn that listening is the most amazing part!

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Here is a poem from my youngest daughter to me, she wrote this when it was time as a mother to let go and set my children free. To see life another way to experience and get through my empty nest place, to travel and embrace the powers of a journey of raising 4 children and the joy it gave and to take my turn in a new growing up phase.

Cheyenne

You flew the storm with bravery and grace,

Always managed to have a smile on your face,

Though not close together

You’re still in my heart

For our mother-daughter bond could never break apart

We’re both spreading our wings,

Choosing our paths,

Mapping our dreams,

Filling all gaps,

So thank you for the push, for showing me the way,

You’re one of few that will never fade away.

So I want you to know,

No matter where life takes us,

Not even the biggest of storms could ever break us.

CHEYENNE SWIFT AKA( MY LUVBUG, MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER)

From me to my youngest child. (letters to come for the other three the impact they all make has shaped me.)

Every talk and every cry you show me so much about life through your eyes.

From the time you were born until today, you have taught me something every day.

Your honest tell it like it is heart and your courage to always get through it with a smile, the tears that not many see, I am blessed you always reveal to me.

Being best friends as well as mother and daughter, a trusting place we know we are never bothered.

 I love your feisty way you stand your ground with confidence no matter who is around.

Your siblings see their little sister, naive and often living in the clouds, on your time living your way, will she ever hurry up and do it fast so we can get going at last?

What I see is the gift you have to take the time you need for you and manage to get done exactly what you need to do.

You are such a beautiful soul, a heart of gold and a tough exterior you work hard to up hold.

Underneath that solid gold there is a butterfly breaking through that hold, she’s colorful and fun, wants to be free, from anyone telling her, be careful, you must see.

I see mighty wings growing on you, watch out life, she’s coming for you.

You get to choose your path, your life is yours, no matter where you go or what you do, no matter if you’re alone happy or blue, you own your life and you get to choose the path that is best for YOU.

Gratitude and grace are given to you, God made the way for you to go, he paved the world just so, for you to learn, for you to experience ,for you to decide where you are called, to show up in life and be bold.

Some will not like it, some will try to stop it, some will criticize it, some will shine light on it, some will try to dim it, some will try to throw fire in it, some will love it, some will encourage it, some will listen to it, and some will give their opinion of it.

All of these things help shape our character, they challenge us and push us, they show us and they teach us, it’s up to you how they pass you, and what they will teach you, it is up to you to allow what will move you or stay with you, what I know for sure is nothing can break you.

Before the day you were born I knew you would make an impact, yours was the name in lights in my dream, it was solid and real It spoke to me clear,  she will brighten the days and the nights, she will shine wherever she goes because she was made perfect in His sight.

I love the questions you courageously ask the depth of your desires and the dreams you have.

I love you my sweet daughter to the depth of my core, I love you my sweet daughter everyday even more and my capacity to love you continues to grow with every single moment we share together, telling secrets, sharing tears, laughing until we can’t even hear.

Thank you for being my youngest child, for teaching me to take my time, I learned while letting you go at your pace that life isn’t a race, this isn’t a dress rehearsal for a later show , live the way you choose to go.

 Smell the roses so many say, you showed me it’s also the path to the roses along the way.

I could of course carry on this letter for days with all of the ways you breathe life into me.

 I will continue for life to love you and meet you where you are and encourage your journey and listen to your hearts excitement for more.

LOVE ALWAYS AND FOREVER, YOUR MAMA

The Intimate Details

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When we see ourselves as a whole, the whole can be healed without a hole.

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The intimate details are authentically yours, your choices, your thoughts, your movement, your feelings, your honor, your path and even resilience.

Authentically yours, ownership of all of you, your value, your commitment, your voice, your belief, your acceptance, your touch, your smile, your intuitive way you think.

There are events that happen in our life, we experience them, we live in them, we feel them, and we often get stuck in them, for a moment or for a while.

 The possibilities to move forward show up in our life, we can take them and accept the gift they give or we can resist and be full of what we choose to relive.

There is no question as to the authenticity of this experience; the question is our perception and the size we created it.

The capacity at which we grow is left to the room we allow ourselves to organize, let go, give away and allow the ebb and flow of the path least resisted instead of over control.

Life won’t stop with a simple thought, overwhelm and fear won’t make time disappear.

 Anger and hurt will grow inside the same as love and compassion will if you decide.

What will you choose your capacity to be, will you wait and wonder if you are as deep as the sea and drown in thoughts you have the right to set free?

Our bodies regenerate all the time, they do it whether you decide to accept or decline.

You have the chance to grow and regenerate every day; you have a choice to regenerate the thoughts and make them new or continue to brand the old to the new.

The regeneration is happening for you, you don’t have to buy it, or find it or give it a name, it is, it’s a gift , it’s for you and me, It’s free don’t take for granted what you can’t see.

The intimate details of our life’s experience are owned and changed and loved and accepted, left for later, protected and deflected.

Often an event or something that doesn’t feel good is seen as something that doesn’t serve us, wanting it to go away, for it to go back to what it was before it came.

 It’s the perfect sign that brings us to be aware of what isn’t serving us to take time and be aware, it is a beautiful reminder that healing is taking place that YOU are already where you need to be, accepting the place where you’re at is the only place you can move forward out of that.

Authentically present with our intimate feelings and thoughts, our mind and body are all one, sharing one without the other is giving you only part of yourself.

A connection of our mind and body as one remind our soul that we have just begun, this new starting place is invigorating and free, now ultimate healing is accepted in place of the doubt that creation of you as a whole needed to be found and made, it’s already done, it was given to you and by not accepting it, you let go of all of YOU.

Authentically and intimately love all of you, picking and choosing one part of the ocean earth and sky doesn’t separate the divine infinity of the connection given for each of YOU, one small change brings change to it all.

Healing and happiness, love and joy, sadness and pain, fear and rejoice, the connection is made as the ebb and flow, the least resisted path we can all choose to go.

“Raise” of Sunshine

A Traveling Soul

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Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body, rather than a body with a soul.

Wayne Dyer

Root of it

From deep inside the movement takes hold.

The traveling soul continues to unfold.

It’s in the walk

It’s in the talk

It’s in the sunshine

It’s in the sky

It’s in the stars

It’s in the mountains

It’s in the smiles

It’s in the noise

It’s in the healing

It’s in the storms

It’s in the rain

It’s in the rainbows

It’s in the soul and it continues to behold the empowerment of freedom, the healing in the body, the laughter in the moments, the smiles that light the way, the happiness given and also received, the cries from the pain, the joy in a day.

The reality is that every day begins and in every day there is a way, no matter what comes your way, to live, to love, to hug, to hold, to listen to share, to deeply care.

The reality is that we can run and hide and we can decide to live closed inside, we can also decide to live out loud and change lives along the way while learning about our own.

We can eat live foods, we can breathe fresh air, we can jump in a lake a river or an ocean, drive a new road and make delicious smelling essential oil potions, most importantly is to look around you and soak life in and experience the love that surrounds you, mmmmmmmmmm let the love in.

Cleanse your body, cleanse your soul, cleanse your heart, cleanse your space, cleanse your mind and your thoughts, turn your phone off now and then, unplug your TV, think and feel, don’t miss out on the life waiting to be revealed.

A traveling soul is constantly letting go, healing and growing and organizing space and learning new lessons to share and embrace.

The system is in place, it was perfectly structured, to live and appreciate you must not be afraid to see where the root of its growth slowed down and open the way for growth to be profound.

The formations are made through time and places, faces and experiences, feelings and stages.

They all show a pattern to embrace; the pieces go together let them all take their place, the foundation of the root system needs to be strong, the more it experiences and continues to grow the stronger the foundation of wisdom and knowledge to show.

When the formations are seen and the shapes take place you can ask every person what they see from their place and what you find is so profound, everyone sees from where they are found.

Encourage each other to grow where their found, life is a garden of everything around, feed it and water it, teach it and love it, embrace it and show it the best of you, ultimately it is each of you that make up the I and the ME and the YOU.

“Raise” of Sunshine from me to you and loving the journey to the I in the two.

Kissed By A Frog

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On the path there will be obstacles of life that will shift your attention, what a blessing when you take the time to shine a light.

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In the mountains growing up near skiing, nature, hikes, mountain trail horses, cabins, two rivers, an outhouse,a woodstove, clean air and more.

Searching for the biggest frogs and the most tadpoles, walking miles into the woods and learning every flower, mushroom, tree, plant and animal, the adventure never ceased, nature was a teacher of peace.

One of the rivers roared with continual intensity, “White River” was its name and it was always murky and full of mystery, the caps were fierce and the speed always surprised anyone that decided to brave its power, often lost in the attempted challenge of nature vs. manpower.

The other one was called, “Green River”  amazingly beautiful, green, clear and calm, you could see every detail in the white caps as they tossed the moss from side to side and all around.

Seemingly effortless and in a certainly relaxed state, trusting it’s direction there was no debate.

An imagination was shaped, deep creativity was born and a never changing mad love for nature, adventure and appreciation in every storm.

The frog, oh the frog, the sound, the stillness, the captivating thoughts of the next move they will make and the power in the next jump it will take.

The music they play, the conversations they have, the late nights they share, the ponds they declare.

The echo’s through the night, the stars they sit under add light.

They seem to have no fear, enjoying life the way they were intended a lesson to draw near.

The sounds when there are thousands, the symphony played, leave a feeling you could stand among them and understand what they say.

Are they vulnerable when they jump away, do you see it this way?

Landing on a trail by themselves, it’s dark they aren’t expecting anyone else, they trust the place they take ownership of their space.

So small to my eye and in turn so large, to an insect they wait to capture and recharge.

They live with clear intent, singing along the way, they can be independent and share conversation without getting in each other’s way.

Take a moment to see that a kiss can be, a place a moment a lesson to receive.

Even a frog can teach you, that taking a moment to shine a light can change someone else’s insight.

Singing and being open to what is near, a journey to concise and clear.

Laughter and letting go being ready to embark.

 Jumping with confidence you will land clear even when it’s dark.

There is strength in the ability to adapt and take turns.

 To hold a hand and dance with someone to confirm, we exchange the lead to teach and affirm, we are always exactly where we need live and learn.

 Continue to land and look around, to feel the vibrations and the sounds.

Thankfulness and gratitude bring confidence and attitude to the altitude and dimension of our experience in magnitude.

Live out loud and listen,” Raise”, of Sunshine on this page, touching you with gravity and intense prayer, I love you here or there.

Even a frog can make a difference, so can you in this instance.