Hello beautiful ones. Today I write to you in a mix of feelings. I found out this morning that a young man here in Portland was found dead in the Willamette River on Sunday after two weeks of being missing. His name was Owen Klinger, and my older son played lacrosse with him last year on the high school team. (My son was JV, Owen was varsity.) Owen took my son to practice one time and Ethan said of him, “He was a very good guy.” In teenage language, this is very high praise.

I have cried tears for Owen and have felt him very viscerally even though we never met. Our paths and journeys and what we are here to do in these lifetimes is often beyond our comprehension, and I have reflected on what I should take with me from his experience. His was a life here to inspire and uplift through his every day actions of thoughtfulness and kindness, and his Light is now reflecting on us in another form.

I sometimes get very frustrated and tired of us not willing to get out of our old stories and patterns in order to affect the change that we can be in an even bigger way. The frustration isn’t for long, and I know it’s a difficult path sometimes, and yet, there is a part of me that is just fed up with the shrugging of the shoulders, the defeatist attitude because it’s easier, and we just want to have a glass of wine tonight and chill out or stay in our addictions. None of us are perfect, including me, but really, how committed are you to the Light? How willing are you to get out of your own way and reach out for support to work through whatever it is you need to in order to be a stand for what it is you want to stand for? Because make no doubt about it – this is a full-on war between the Dark and the Light, and we need every single soul who is a stand for the betterment of this planet to get up out of the chair and get to work – however that looks for you.

I recently had a new guide for me show up, and this time it is Serafina. She was a nun in Italy in the 1600’s and has been compared to St. Teresa of Avila who I have spoken about before. Her name means “daughter of God” and “the Fiery one.” I sense I am getting some of that fire from her now. There is this new level I have gone to recently in myself that is so dang powerful and grounded, and it feels very good. The time and energy that I am doing to get out there with my marketing and my speaking is in such alignment with the work I am here to do. Tomorrow, I will give my signature talk for the first time, and I know it is the first of many. I am excited and proud of the work I have done to get here, and I am also in gratitude and humility for the opportunities coming my way.

As is usual, on my run today some specific lyrics spoke to me. This is from my favorite Nahko song “We Are on Time.” He wrote this for his girlfriend at the time and is a love song, and these words spoke to me today to share with you. Because we can only do this change together, heart to heart, even in the moments of frustration and sadness.

"Sometimes I'm broken

Sometimes I'm mended

On the road

I can cope to get up and do it all over again

I am on your side

I am not drawing a line

Only want what is right

What is best for your life"

This photo is of one of my favorite trees in the park I walk almost daily. Do what you need to do today to shift into more alignment with yourself and your true power – the one that is the Love and Light. Today, I do this for Owen. We are on time.

Much love, many blessings. xo

Today, I do this for Owen

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