Author: Karen Pettit-Ehler

The real gift we have been given is the gift of being together.

I don’t want to be remembered. I want my blood to become sap, my bones to become roots, my breath to become the wind. Even wanting is not so important. Even wanting will become something new.

Sometimes it is good to cry. Nothing grows without a little rain.

When the fire has gone to embers, that is when I hope you will watch it most carefully, because all it takes is one breath.

In the end, it wasn’t about who was right or who won, it was about standing shoulder to shoulder in the trenches and pushing together toward a peaceful world.

Life is not meant to give us what we want, unless what we want is to be broken open so the light can get free.

It’s easy to focus on the things that are not going so well and forget that there is still so much to be grateful for. Like the fact we are a bundle of cosmic soup bound together by pure energy and running a 4 dimensional hallucination program we call consciousness. It’s neat.

It’s probably not a good sign that I’m ready for winter to be over and it’s October.

How many of us are fighting, each day, to hold on to something solid, when inside, everything feels like it’s falling apart? Act gently. Use your words as words, and not as swords, because the last thing we need is another battle when we are already at war with ourselves.