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From Blogging to New Beginnings: My Story

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth
A serene seascape with a wooden deck in the foreground, featuring an inspiring quote about determination by Kerri Elizabeth. The sky is light blue with soft clouds, and the calm water reflects the colors of the sky.

Change requires a presence, presence requires a change and both need acknowledgment to serve purpose.

~Kerri-Elizabeth~

Change is inevitable

To all that have followed my Blog for years and been so supportive of me. I appreciate you and love reading your blogs. I enjoy hearing your beautiful stories about life, love, art, and so many other things. Closing my blog to embrace change has been a difficult decision but a necessary one.

I will soon close my blog down. The process of saving and backing up all my work is no small task. Please enjoy reading and writing to me for the next couple of weeks, and then I will send my final good-bye.

I have a new project, I have been working on for years off and on. I am going into the final stages of finishing it. Closing my blog to embrace change will help me focus on this new venture.

This has been a beautiful place to heal and write and so many of you have been such great supporters.

My son’s cancer journey

I started writing for one reason. That soon changed. I began writing my heart and soul out during a long battle. My son, Zakary Ryan, battled Acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He was 19 when diagnosed. At 24, he left behind his physical body to explore new territory. Nothing has been more heart wrenching and life changing for me. Closing my blog to embrace change hasn’t come without many emotions.

Zakary’s journey changed me and continues to. I am now headed into my 8th year of developing a new and most profound relationship with him. What was taken, lost and emptied out is being filled with new knowledge. He is gently guiding me and as I listen more, he moves me more, sometimes not so gently actually. He is a force to be reckoned with.

It is time to close out this part of my journey. It has been changed and transformed a few times over. I have clarity this part of the journey has served its purpose and place. It’s time to say good-bye and embrace closing my blog for the change it will bring.

Sunshine

Sunshine is my soul voice. It is the deepest, most aligned, and authentic version of me. This happens when I am tuned in, of course. My life as everyone’s does, goes in and out of noisy times. Mine is noisy around me and taking extra effort to stay grounded and focused. As I have taken time from Social Media platforms I have noticed a significant change in my concentration and focus. What was an experiment is moving me to shut it down completely. The next couple weeks I will be shutting down all avenues except email and phone of course to contact me.

It has taken some time to evaluate this decision while entering into a new phase of learning and experiences.

I value this experience with WP and everyone here. Nevertheless, it is time to leave now. I have a very big project ahead. Can I do it all? YES, but will I be fully aware while staying connected to my most authentic self? Closing my blog to embrace change will allow me to focus and be fully attentive.

Good-byes

Isn’t there a phrase that teaches us, when one door closes another opens? It’s time to close this door but keep the experience with so many beautiful lessons.

I have tried different avenues to keep this door open while still pursuing the finish of my current project. Every door slam I hear moves me farther into a period of concentration and full presence. This decision wasn’t made quickly but carefully. Closing my blog to embrace change feels like the right step ahead.

Thank you

Thank you for being here when I really needed other voices and friendships to share with. Meaningful voices here have been such a comfort for me during some really tough times. This blog carries many emotional journeys. It is my story from a depth you don’t see on the surface. Thank you to you all.

Nature’s Wisdom: Finding Strength in Storms

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A view of a tall tree with a trunk in focus, showcasing bright green and yellow leaves at the top, set against a clear sky.

Growth takes a lifetime of strength through life’s storms, don’t miss a drop of rain or a ray of sunshine.

~Kerri Elizabeth~

Whisper to me your journey to the sky
Speak slowly so I can write them all
Share with me every rain drop you’ve felt
Every shiver in life’s storms that brings strength
As you stand protecting me

Strength through life’s storms creates resilience and endurance.
Share with me every ring you earned at your core
As you share, I’m listening
To the winds shuffling your leaves
The crackling among your branches
The dew among the grass sharing precious reflections
Nature will inspire you with growth
Where God so creatively painted all the answers

After enduring the challenges, you will feel sunshine often after gaining strength through life’s storms.

If you like this one, my hope is you will also like the one posted below:

There is where you’ll be

If you love music , this is a great song:

Emotional depth within sunflowers and the Roots of Perception

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“Sunflowers seek the sun, yet their strength lies in their unseen roots. Depth isn’t just what we see—it’s what we feel.”

A close-up painting of a sunflower with vibrant yellow and white petals radiating from a dark center, symbolizing warmth and positivity.

Whether in a tree or a sunflower, with eyes closed or open, color there or gone, roots are the traveling wonder with emotional depth.

~Kerri-Elizabeth~

Depth perception colored or not
Precision and emotion, traveling wonder
Emotions spill upon a silently colored moment
Stillness presents depth with or without the amazement of color
Can you see beyond your vision
Where depth is found by the distance a root grows
Surrender your vision to your heart, where emotional depth and perception truly intertwine
Where emotional depth perception sets you apart
How deep do your roots grow
Where are your roots and which way did they go
How deep have they grown
A tree does not say, this way
It is after the storms where depth is gained
It was in the heart where emotional depth perception remains

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If this poem resonated with you, you might also enjoy my links below:

Kerri-Elizabeth.com 

Pivot for Love
Separately Found While Always Connected

Here is an amazing read on Sunflowers facts…https://www.appleyardflowers.com/flowerdiaries/sunflower-facts/

Bursting for action in 2024

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For me 2023 gifted me a platform to realize just because we spend our whole lives thinking one way , doesn’t mean it will be that way and growth is hard and it requires pain and being uncomfortable and feeling all the things you wish away most often.

It’s in those moments you want to wish away that have the most significant impact of change and growth for your future best self, so keep going through it until you reach the other side, don’t stop at the worst parts, notice them , feel them and have gratitude for it all.

My title ahead for 2024 is full speed ahead… you?

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Where Does it Start

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“Where moments of awareness exist curiosity teaches.”

Kerri~Elizabeth

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Is the depth of a reflection upon water infinite

Where does it start 

Where does it extend

Upon a breeze an unsteadiness gives a blur

Calm pristine duplication in the reflection recovers 

Steadiness reserves itself

Offering peace to a storm

Sunshine arrives with rain upon its rays

An open sky seems to smile upon the waters

Leaving curiosity to dance upon the moment

Where does it start

Where does it extend

Where pristine is duplicated in a reflection

Love is moved within the awareness

Where does it start

Where does it extend

Rain dances with the sun

Beauty of a moment arrives

Awareness in every breath takes place

Love is in the rays

Love is in the ripples of the water upon a whisper of wind

Love is in the rain asking for the hand of every sunshine rays

Love is

Where it starts 

Where it extends

Within

SUNSHINE

Pivotal Moments

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Embracing the moments of change teach wisdom in place of resistance and fear.

~Kerri-Eizabeth~

Moments that seem to stop time

Moments where everything aligns

Gentleness and compassion intertwined

Letting go and holding on don’t exist

Presence is perfect

Where streams and rivers run free

Crossing paths with eternity

Then like a tree that falls across the river flow

Forcing a new direction

Beauty of change erupt the soul

Flow is held for a moment

Time is stopped

Panic and anxiety whisper nonsense to fear

Then so clear compassion gently taps

Im here

SUNSHINE

Within the Clouds

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Within the clouds intension and focus are highlighted for your success.

~Kerri-Elizabeth~

Sometimes the seemingly hardest times offer the most pivotal changes

Hunger for the deepest truths drive an unrelentless anxiety to know more

Deeply falling apart coordinates with a rising again

Disappearing into sacrifice opens transformation

Change must persevere while ripples of time disappear

Explanation is not apparent

An inner peace is sacrificed to enter through the clouds

You must purely trust the navigation system studied

Rising above the clouds dances with pure intention

Focus can not be lost

It is within the cloud you will question your strengths

It is above the clouds you will be reminded of your strengths

Never to forget 

Once you are above the clouds , you must return

Again you will question your strengths

Again you will be reminded who you are

Fall apart into who you are meant to be

The fall is part of the rising

The rising is part of the fall

The clouds are where intention and focus is planted

Sunshine

The clouds cover the chaos so intension and focus are all that matter. Often we think of clouds as a place we can’t focus.. when really it’s where focus becomes key.

Student of Life

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May your heart and soul dance together and know the exact time to let go and when to go slow and when surrender is all you need to know!

~ Kerri Elizabeth~

We’re all going to the same place

Heaven is ahead

We all came from the same place

The past is the life we lead

What we have now in this moment is where we’ve been lead

By the journey behind you

And the courage to move ahead

The decision that’s left

Is will you take action next

That last moment is already gone

You have now

Let the stitches of sorrow rip away

And let living your best be in everyday

SUNSHINE

Freedom

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Freedom to be is the embrace of trusting the inner pace!

~ SUNSHINE~

In the brevity of escape

Serenity surrounds with shape

Your truth is where you will be set free

Silence speaks delicately in the gift of a heartbeat

Resounding confirmation of the beat repeats

Calmness sheds its anxious covering

A meadow of brilliance is in continual recovery

Daisies dance while waving to the rhythm of the comforting breeze

Tangoing with the blades of green

Grounded and intertwined in a rooted place

Misunderstood only by the human race

Nakedness will reveal the truth of the heart

Shaped through grace, innocence is replaced

Playfulness is revealed and not concealed

It’s in the climbing of the trees

The freedom to dance in the fallen leaves

It’s in the umbrella of a maple tree

Slowing the pace of the raindrops from space

Shed a tear without fear

It is in the release of the tears your reflection will appear

Evolution of your path is in place

Stay sturdy in the embrace

Sunshine