by Kelly Buckley | Feb 25, 2016 | Hope
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ~ Nelson Mandela ~ Rough on one side and smooth on the other…just like life....
by Kelly Buckley | Feb 2, 2016 | Hope
Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? ~Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton~ Well Happy Groundhog Day! This is the day each year that we gaze towards a nervous rodent in a hole to predict the future....
by Kelly Buckley | Nov 24, 2015 | Grief
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~ Johannes A. Gaertner ~ The table is set, but something is missing. He is missing; my beautiful son Stephen. Each year, I...
by Kelly Buckley | May 7, 2015 | Gratitude
As Mother’s Day approaches, I wanted to share some thoughts with you about my Mother. Although she passed in 1991, she still sits gently within my heart and serves as a constant influence in my daily life. I remember my mother’s prayers and they...
by Kelly Buckley | Feb 4, 2015 | Grief
Dear Nationwide, I didn’t watch the big game Sunday night, so I missed the unveiling of your ad. My husband was away and my son was watching the game with friends, so I had some “me” time. I took an hour to write and caught up on some of my favorite...
