by Kelly Buckley | Feb 21, 2011 | Grief
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen KellerI wanted to share this beautiful article about Liam Neeson and his life since losing his wonderful wife. His honesty, and the writer’s ability to capture the mood of...
by Kelly Buckley | Feb 17, 2011 | Unity
The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.- Michael Armstrong I remember...
by Kelly Buckley | Feb 14, 2011 | Hope
Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all. ~ Swami Chinmayananda ~ What if this arrived in the mail today? My Dearest (Insert Your Name Here), Happy Valentine’s. I have to...
by Kelly Buckley | Feb 9, 2011 | Grief
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown I was reading recently about a woman who, married to her husband for fifty nine years, wondered how she would ever go on and...
by Kelly Buckley | Jan 31, 2011 | Hope
Weight that disappears from your body but not from your soul is simply recycling outward for a while but is almost certain to return. It’s self-defeating, therefore, to struggle to drop excess weight unless you are also willing to drop the thought-forms that initially...
by Kelly Buckley | Jan 27, 2011 | Gratitude
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, “The Opera”Happy Friday! I love Fridays. They always serve as a beacon of hope for people, letting the masses know that the weekend has arrived, and we are allowed just a short...
by Kelly Buckley | Jan 24, 2011 | Gratitude
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning I’ve been so busy. Life has been moving way too fast, and I feel like I have hardly had a moment to sit with my own thoughts. Until yesterday. You see, I had an encounter with a Caesar salad; I...
by Kelly Buckley | Jan 20, 2011 | Grief
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”- Socrates -I am missing my blog time; that time of connection, with all of you and with my inner soul. Work and life has been hectic these days, and I have been forced to act like a grown up….the things you do to pay the...
by Kelly Buckley | Jan 10, 2011 | Grief
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”-Plato- Today at eleven, as I walked on the treadmill, I observed a reverent moment of silence for the loss of precious lives in Arizona on...
by Kelly Buckley | Jan 7, 2011 | Grief
I thought this was an interesting question posed by a recent widower. Thoughts?Discussion : After losing wife, man has trouble with `grief groupies’
