Author: The Whimsey Angel

Artists, universal equalizers

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in Life Journey

To those that share their creative talents and poetic selves with the rest of the world, thank you for sharing your gift.

To the musicians that raise our spirits to dance, stir our hearts to sing and move us to celebrate; Your notes and songs tell the tales and reveal the secrets hidden in our souls. You help us express the emotions and feelings that are often locked deep inside of us. When you play everything, even love and loss, make sense. Your music binds us and helps humanity mark time in ways that no other thing can.

To the artists that blend colour with light, alter shape and form, awaken the imagination and bring canvas, clay, glass, wood, stone or the stage to life; Your talents soothe the souls of a tired and too busy world. You allow us to see and imagine our lives and the world differently.

To the poets and writers that help us escape; You make our eyes weep with joy, our hearts swoon and our minds think. You provide a refuge and give us the words that define and explain our own lives.

You all courageously share intimate pieces of yourselves through your art and help us find the pathways to our own passions.

You are the universal equalizers that eclipse boarders, politics, race, gender, religion and war, and bring people together.

You feed the hunger we all have to express who we are. You help make sense of, and bring peace and harmony to an unsettled and chaotic world.

Thank you for the gift of your creative self❤️.

TO’K ~🌹❤️

Barely a Moment

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in Life Journey

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Sometimes we’re meant to be
in someone’s life for barely a moment.
Just long enough to leave a small imprint and change each other in ways we might never know.
We walk together from one place and time to another, and then, head to separate shores, knowing with great clarity that we’re profoundly different, although not quite sure how.
Be grateful for everyone,
(literally every-single-one), that comes in and out of your life. Each of these beautiful souls brought you something magnificent, even if it was painful, they helped shape who you are.
And who you are, is wonderful ❤️
TO’K~🌹❤️

Embrace the Storm

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in Life Journey

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We can stay safe, warm and comfortable under the shelter of our fears, or, we can run into the storm, waving our arms in wild delight and greet the waves that are about to crash onto the shores of ours lives.

Yes your hair will get tussled. You may be blown to the ground, get bruised and have debris fill your eyes. But oh how glorious it will be to know courage, to feel your heart race and have your entire being awaken to living fully in that moment.

When the wave crashes down, you will get soaked, it may even pull you into cold, unfamiliar, deep, dark, waters. But you’re strong, you will find your way back. And, when the next storm hits, it won’t be so unfamiliar, you’ll be stronger and it will be easier to swim to shore.
And then, the sun will return.

Embrace the exhilaration that comes when a storm blows in and every fibre of your body and soul feel FULLY alive. Because, one day,
YOU won’t be.

TO’K ~ 🌹❤️

Look up

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in Life Journey, Spiritual

8D6B1381-4098-4C8C-942D-621262A91868Look up from the busyness of your day, from your phone, your desk, your computer, the TV or anything else that disconnects you from the natural world.

Look up to the stars and marvel at how small yet so perfect we all are.

Look up into the mountains and believe that you can climb them.

Look up when you hear a child giggle and remember what it was like to play and to dream.

Look up into the forest and “hear” the silence and just breathe.

Look up beyond the moon and the glow of the entire universe and know that whatever troubles your mind will pass.

Your heart will soften, your mind will quiet, your body will ease and your soul will wake, when you pause, and just ~ look ~ up.

TO’K ~🌹❤️

We are the poetry

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in grief, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Spiritual

By Toni O’Keeffe

We need not look beyond our own lives, our own hearts, our own curious souls to find the answers.

We are the echos of wisdom left behind by all those that came before us.

We are the foot prints leading towards greater understand of all that is.

We are the songs that ignite passion, tears and dance.

We are the deep whispers that exhale in the night guiding each other home.

We are the chapters and

the puzzle pieces in each others lives.

We are raindrops, heartache and the cover that shelters one another from life’s storms.

We are mountains, forests, oceans, and the wide open spaces that call us to explore.

We are fear, joy, unsettled thoughts and lies. We are the peace, the war and injustice that surrounds us.

We are the colours of our own lives, the magic, the madness and the miracles. We are all the things we seek.

And,

We are the masterpiece we crave to create.

Look inwards my dear ones, that is where you will find the answers to all questions, all pain, all life.

I am the rhythm and the words that will set you and I free.

Together;

We are the poetry

TO’K~ 🌹❤️

Thank you for not loving me

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in Life Journey, Love and relationships

Thank you for not loving me.

Thank you for keeping me waiting in the background of your life just in case.

Thank you for making me feel less worthy than others and making me think nobody else could possibly love me.

Thank you for sleepless nights and dreams that never came true.

Thank you for the constant ache as I hoped.

Thank you for another layer of heartache and grief to lay over the ones already there piercing my mind, body and spirit.

I’m grateful that you played with my heart and lied to my soul.

Because of you, I fell.

I fell to a place full of feelings and words and understanding.

I fell into a place where the only choice was to crawl upwards.

I know now that none of it had anything to do with me.

I am bold and beautiful and passionate and deep and wise, and kind and loving and funny and sometimes, some people just don’t know what to do with all of that.

But someday, somebody will.

If you had loved me I might have been tempted to hide all that I am to allow you to feel better about all that you are not.

I love you and I’m grateful that you entered my life, you have given me the opportunity to look inward and finally see all the beautiful music and magic that I am.

So, thank you for not loving me.

The Ache

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in Life Journey, Love and relationships, Spiritual

My heart aches for

love not shared,

words not spoken and

chapters not written.

I have a hunger for places

I have not been and

songs that are yet to be sung.

My life is beautiful and good,

yet my soul yearns to be

with its common flame,

the one that both calms and stirs me- the one

that helps lift me

to be my greatness self.

So, I will wander until my soul stumbles

into that safe haven where

I will feel settled and loved.

Unleash the magic within.

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in Life Journey

There is nothing more beautiful than you, laughing, feeling, connecting, discovering, growing and doing what you were born to do.

You were born to share your music, your art, your magic, your words, your love and your beautiful heart and soul with the world, don’t be afraid.

Unleash the magic within.

TO’K~🌹❤️

ON MY WORST DAY – I was still grateful.

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in grief, Life Journey, Uncategorized

On my worst day, I woke up, although a part of me wished I hadn’t.

I dragged my aching soul out from under the covers and hauled myself across the room. Life felt unbearable and hopeless. But still, I had a life.

I stepped outside on to the small balcony of my hotel room and let the wind tussle my hair and let the rain kiss my tear stained cheeks and sooth my crippled soul.

My eyes were swollen, yet, I could faintly see the dim, blue, sky hidden behind hazy, grey clouds. Although I could not see the sun, I knew it was there, hiding and helping life flourish.

My heart was broken, but, it was still beating and I still had the capacity to love.

The ache tore through my entire being, paralyzed my body, but, I could still stand and I could still feel.

I gazed out across the steely cold ocean knowing that beneath the surface of the water beautiful things were alive. And I knew that below the surface of my pain, there was a powerful force swimming in the dark that would help me heal.

I closed my tired eyes and was able to visit the corners of my mind where I held the image of every beautiful soul that had ever wandered in and out of my life. I would need them now.

On my worst day, my very worst day, there was still so much to be grateful for.

Even on your worst days, there will be something beautiful to believe in. Be always grateful for those things.

TO’K ~ 🌹❤️

Feelings damn feelings

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in Life Journey, Love and relationships

Have you ever had feelings for someone that you can’t understand? Feelings that pierce your heart and awaken your soul? No matter how far you travel or how fast you run, there they are, reminding you that you still know how to feel, you still know how to love, you still know how to ache and you still know how to recognize a soul that is tied to yours, but, you don’t know how or why?

Yup, I hate when that happens.