Elayna Alexandra

Somedays you want to be Grateful, you want to find the Joy and yet you struggle. So you settle on Just being simply grateful for life and its many lessons.

Since my dog died I have been feeling bare, ragged. Like trees with out their leaves I am unprotected. The rawness that it has left me in has surprised me, everything and anything is overwhelming. My nerves are on edge, my circuit is short and I can’t help but feel overwhelmed, exhausted, drained. I guess [...]

“Oh do you have time
to linger
for just a little while
out of your busy
and very important day
for the goldfinches
that have gathered
in a field of thistles
for a musical battle,
to see who can sing
the highest note,
or the lowest,
or the most expressive of mirth,
or the most tender?
Their strong, blunt beaks
drink the air
as they strive
melodiously
not for your sake
and not [...]

I don’t always do a very good job of taking care of myself. Of taking time off, indulging myself in little things. Partly it is money. I have always hated spending what little we have on myself, but partly it is time too. With school, work, and several projects always going I rarely find the [...]

Some cool things to share. Love this inspiring girl. Really loved reading this.  Thinking this is sort of interesting too. What is your cool find of the week?

Grateful for the chance to see fading fall color.
To wear a wool scarf and walk under the Pines.
Grateful for a chance to talk holding hands.
To be together in new spaces.

Today I pray. In the darkness of the bathroom, both hands pressed firmly together.
I whisper words into the softness of the morning.
Begging, hoping, someone hears them.
Yesterday I threw a penny into the wishing well.
First clutching tightly to the little piece of copper.
My eyes squeezed closed, trying to envision dreams becoming reality.
Toss, it spirals and with [...]

This weekend in the never-ending state of unpacking and organizing I found a box of my old journals, mostly from my last couple years in high school. Many of the entries had me dieing laughing, the way I jumped from one love affliction to the next, the way I wrote, what was important. Then I happened upon a [...]

Grateful for a new month, a chance to start a new.