by Kelly Buckley | Jan 6, 2011 | Hope
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb Well, Happy New Year! I am late sending along my greetings for 2011. I have to say, I just did not want the holidays to end this year. It was not because I had this wild and crazy time. In actual...
by Kelly Buckley | Dec 28, 2010 | Hope
” We are already one and we imagine we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. Whatever we have to be is what we are.” -Thomas Merton- Well hello there, Today, I wanted to share with you my review of the book, The Power of Intention....
by Kelly Buckley | Dec 24, 2010 | Gratitude
“I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the word seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God...
by Kelly Buckley | Dec 22, 2010 | Gratitude
“Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength,...
by Kelly Buckley | Dec 22, 2010 | Gratitude
“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” – Bob Hope – I ‘m working some last minute preparations today. I’m sure I...
by Kelly Buckley | Dec 19, 2010 | Grief
A hug is a great gift – one size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange. ~Author Unknown Happy Sunday, I wanted to re post a blog that I published last year, entitled Communicating During the Holidays and Grief....
by Kelly Buckley | Dec 18, 2010 | Grief
Happy Saturday all, I wanted to pass along this excellent article written by Jeanne Dennis for The Huffington Post. I believe we need to start having more conversations about how we handle grief and loss in this drive thru world of ours. Thank you Jeanne for your...
by Kelly Buckley | Dec 10, 2010 | Gratitude
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Christmas shopping. It’s just not as they portray it in the commercials. Where are the happy people dancing in...
by Kelly Buckley | Dec 10, 2010 | Grief
“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.”...
by Kelly Buckley | Dec 1, 2010 | Gratitude
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France I’ve come to a conclusion. Life is like one big painting project. Let me...
