gratitude

“The Art of Becoming”

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“Gratitude is the brush that finishes every painting of renewal.”

This week has been a reminder that creativity isn’t only found in canvases or poems, it’s in the way we breathe, the way we move, the choices we make each day. Renewal is art in motion, homemade milk swirling with spice, a mindful walk becoming prayer, water remembering the words we whisper into it.

Each simple act becomes sacred when done with awareness. The smallest gestures, stirring, stretching, stepping outside, shape who we are becoming. Creation isn’t a single moment of brilliance; it’s the steady rhythm of presence meeting possibility.

Every motion paints a path.
Every choice colors the air.
What you notice becomes light,
what you love becomes prayer.

Let gratitude be the thread that ties it all together.
In every meal, every breath, every small awakening, there is a masterpiece quietly forming, your life, lived with intention.

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow begins a new two week series, a slow gentle walk through what is felt and less talked about directly during holiday pressures and family fractures and a few insights that may be helpful in honoring your own beat while honoring others as well.

The Bridge Between Worlds

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“Some lights do not fade with distance, they become the horizon we walk toward.”

October closes not with silence, but with reverence.
The month began in fog and stillness and ends in light that refuses to dim.
Each story, each wave of emotion, has been a lesson in continuation, how pain and peace can travel side by side, how love reshapes itself to stay.

Zakary’s birthday became the center of that light, a day when memory and presence merged.
His laughter still ripples through the air; his curiosity still stirs the questions that make us brave enough to live honestly.
Through his journey, we remember that healing is not erasing, it is learning to carry beauty and ache together without losing either.
He reminds us that endings are simply thresholds, and connection never breaks; it only changes its form.

October has been a teacher of slowing down, of listening between breaths, of cleansing through truth and reflection.
It has asked us to look beyond what we can touch, to trust that unseen work is always unfolding, that love moves quietly beneath every surface.

Now November waits at the door, carrying gratitude in one hand and promise in the other.
It whispers: Bring what you’ve learned. Bring what you’ve loved.
The light you carry forward is the same light that began it all.

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow, November will open its first page, where gratitude meets revelation, where new insights and journeys travel through Novemeber with a rejuvinated openness and awareness with conversation and learning, with sharing and celebrating and a stirring of something I havent shared yet and still showing itself worthy of a slow entrance. There will also be another big celebration right around the corner.

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Emergence

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In the cracks is perfect emergence transcending and pulsating transformation.

~Kerri Elizabeth~

In the crackle of this clay Is a story ……

Be hold my wonderous earth

Living minerals you have birthed

I choose this place to be my home

Rising I surrender to you

A flower shape as I emerge

Under your hot sunny sky Universe

In the kiln of life

Set me to be aligned just right

SUNSHINE

MY SON FOREVER

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No matter how far away you are no matter how many stars you’ve travelled so far, I love you!

My son
My heart
The voice to my soul
My purpose to grow
My guide ahead
My light
And that star so bright
The voice in the breeze
The crackle in the trees
Your infinite strength
Your more than any word can define
Youre my blessing of truth divine
Your forever my son
The only one
Your presence is a promise I always feel
I love you,
Your momma FOREVER

I MISS YOU HERE ON EARTH!

Stained Glass Life

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Every experience a piece of stained glass with memories in the grooves and spaces attached.

~Kerri Elizabeth~

When the light of the day slowly fades

Sounds quiet down all around

Shade takes the stage gently perspective is changed

Where a moment ago light and shade both took center stage

They bow with the honor of true love in a universal exchange 

Miraculously the tides never hide

Crashing and surging to a universal rhythm and vibe

Pebbles in infinite amounts toss and turn

Offering in grace our perceptions and concern

Give way the emotional thoughts and response 

Interpretations and nonchalance

Some say, ready

Others seem even and steady

As the light will slowly fade

Another day is gifted into the nightshade

SUNSHINE

My Wisest Teacher and My Son

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What the eye does not see is where the heart is set free!

~Kerri Elizabeth~

This baby of mine, my boy that has become a warrior man, husband, son, brother and friend.

His strength and courage far out stretch any I have ever seen, heard of or experienced.

I’d say it’s because I’m his mom and I’m biased, but that’s just a small part of the truth.

His story can’t fit on this page, but the light in his smile can radiate for you a message.

Interpret the love in these eyes and this smile from an unconditional love.

To know him is to love him.

To hear him is to capture the sound and rhythm of pure adoration and gratitude and love for life.

To walk with him is to teach you the most magnificent postural power.

To hug him is to feel more energetic peace than you’ll ever feel.

To speak to his soul is a gift I am blessed to behold.

To be his momma is the best gift I’ve ever received and it can’t be bought or sold.

To share our hearts while we reflect on our life’s path to here is in pure gratitude.

To feel his heartbeat while he holds my hand and hear him say, “I’m OK mom” when nothing seems even close to ok, teaches me the most love and strength I’ve ever experienced.

This BOY has a heart of 100 badass LIONS and as his spirit roars and becomes too big to fit into his frail body, he continues to teach us all, he is so much more than what you see!

Take your blinders of life off, it’s what you DON’T see that sets you free!

My WISEST teacher ever, MY SON!

I love YOU and my soul’s tapped in, every life you’re in, you promised you’d pick me as your mom again!

Can we make a pact though, that next time you don’t run faster than me?

I love you every minute and every second!

Your Momma for infinity!

SUNSHINE

(For those of you who don’t know Sunshine is my Soul’s voice, it’s the source where my words come and my eyes are closed and the deepest part of me shines!)

A GIFT

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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know! Pema Chodron

A gift is to hear the rising of the morning.

The smell of fresh dew carrying the reflections of what surrounds it.

A gift is to feel the earthquake when your soul rumbles with fire.

And your heart beats with the adrenaline of passion to live.

When you know for sure letting go of defenses means your belief system is solid.

A gift is when letting go is a manifestation of transformation not disappearing.

When letting go and allowing the pain to pass is disassembling a pattern to reconstruct a new design.

A gift is to recognize that your destination is not determined by justification but appreciation.

A gift is criticism that opens the possibilities to change previous limits.

A gift is hearing others stories so not to be devoured by your own astonishment but humble in inspired growth.

A gift is knowing your happiness is directly reflected from the core of our your own radiance.

Escape the yearning desire to give away your happiness and instead illuminate your surroundings for others to see their own path.

Exhilaration and equilibrium integrate inspired balance to fall yet get back up, leap and risk infinite passion.

A gift is the awe moment you realize that feeling is whatever you choose the title to be.

 

Walk With Less Resistance

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

In the dismantle and reconstruction of thoughts emerges new light.

Today I choose it all to be more than alright.

Interaction with existence in nature’s surrounding cradle my soul.

We are made whole.

Centering an emotion into a balanced presence invites transformation.

Allowing frustration to inspire inner creative articulation.

Be bold and alive in this quake that shakes your ground.

Let your fire inside be a light all around.

Root into the earth with fierce and determined emergence.

Ground your thoughts without disturbance.

Reach in and dare your heart to beat to the contrast of yesterday.

Raise your hands to the beauty of a new day.

Culminate new ways.

Dance to the vibration of the earth’s core.

Reach and touch more!

Sunshine on your magnificence.

Reflection in the Flame

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Shake you up and interact with your inner opponent, bow with grace to be bravely alive!

Kerri Elizabeth

 

Before the flow of grace a change of engagement occurs.

Detachment of control and eager letting go must emerge.

A dare to live and excavate the inner familiar.

Open to the courage of the unknown and interact with emotions.

Release the fear of the rippling effect of consistency and patterns and roar in this moment.

Shake up your soul and reorganize your center.

Look in the flames of love and see your own reflection.

Determine nothing and let go of it all.

Ask a question to your soul, why do I need the answer?

What will an answer give but a path to another.

Your opponent simply and with clarity shows the reflection of fear to be.

Will I fail or will I succeed?

Will I be loved or left?

Will he or she?

Will I , how do I, can I, should I, would I?

Embrace your opponent with grace.

Your opponent is the relationship you decide to dismantle or restructure within you.

Choose to raise the hand of your opponent and bow with gratitude.

The truth is whether you win or lose there is always a gain when you have grace.

Sunshine in graceful gratitude!