Quote of the Day

I love this quote.
Truth is we are constantly dying and renewing ourselves on a daily basis down to the cellular level.
If we are remotely aware we realize that, like a snake, we shed of ourselves at the end of each season of our life and there are many.
Then come the events in our lives that rip out our hearts, leaving us breathless and unable to function normally.
Those times we become paralyzed by fear only to become stagnant, and that toxic state invites rank and rot that threatens our very essence. Hopefully we can cut out that which is holding us back and making us ill. Breach the dam and leave behind that which no longer serves us.
Yes, each of us dies countless deaths in this life. Learning to embrace them is difficult, but allows the birth of renewal to exist in the realm of HOPE.
Ultimately, it is up to us to reside in a state of grace, in spite of the deaths of self we endure.
Keep seeking and never give up Hope. 🍀

Dream Live Do

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Rainy Days

Rainy Days

Our thoughts are powerful, like seeds that grow, and can leave us paralyzed or call us to action. Just as our diet nourishes our body, so to do our thoughts nourish our mind and soul. I have kept a journal most of my life and have found that it’s a great way to monitor what’s going on in my head. It’s important because humans have a funny way of deceiving ourselves. Like the food we put into our body, we surely have a choice of what we think about, and it’s important to differentiate thoughts from feelings, as one does not equal the other. Thoughts are the things that will tell us if our feelings are rational or not. Of course it’s possible to have irrational thoughts but you don’t have to look far before you find a feeling attached to it. Awareness is a gift and a marvelous tool, when you get there, and like the tide, is in perpetual motion.

I hope your day is a good and thoughtful one. 📖✏

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When Vision Becomes Reality

Journey

Some journeys we have to take alone. 👣 Find a way to be at peace with that. 

I wish you all a beautiful weekend. 

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Luck Is a Choice

Luck is a Choice

The extent of your luck is directly proportional to your level of gratitude.💚Why do I say that? Because it’s true. 

Gratitude has a way of making what is, enough and more.

A meal becomes a feast.

Being stuck in traffic becomes time to meditate, pray or ponder.

A handshake, the beginning of a friendship.

Tears become healing.

Breath becomes life….and on and on.

So it stands to reason that the moment one becomes grateful, they also become lucky. What is even better is that it is our choice to be grateful. We don’t have to wait for life to be perfect to be grateful. It’s our gratitude that makes for a perfect life.🍀Happy St. Patrick’s Day from this Crazy Celt to you!

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IWD

Happy International Womens Day from me to all you amazing women out there!

Yes, that’s pure joy on my face, standing next to one of my favorite Engineers. We had just finished up on a huge vegetation fire that was threatening multiple homes. If I remember correctly, I was giving him a hard time about his suspenders. Mine weren’t that cool! LOL

Although my health finally made it impossible for me to continue the Fire Service, the 10 years I was in will forever be a gem in my heart. ❤

Broken is the Masterpiece

Art is to console those who are broken by life. -Vincent Van Gogh 

Me: Sometimes it’s the brokeness that IS the masterpiece. It’s all about perspective, for no one goes unscathed by life.💛

The Crazy Celt-#BrokenisBeautiful 

Voyager

​Voyager

We are all voyagers within this flow of spacetime; all with a specific digit of sand grains to our name. Many will travel to distant places, far beyond the boundaries of home. Even more will stay within the confines of what is familiar and seemingly safe. How interesting to realize that whichever path is chosen, the real borders that should be explored, conquered, and expanded, are the ones within our own mind and heart. While many people may know me, there are very few who understand me, and even fewer who will mark the passport to enter my heart.

So, this Voyager may travel alone, but I am not lonely.

This Voyager may travel in darkness, but when faced and traveled through, I know light will always prevail….and this Voyager may see no land in sight, but conviction keeps a steady sail…and home is where my heart is, till the sand grains become the stars.

☄The Crazy Celt 

Consumption

​What consumes your mind, controls your life. Let it be something beautiful and worthy. 💚

Have a good day.