Karen Kurchyne, Peace Gardener: Cultivating the Beauty in You

02/14/2026

Make today about loving You.

You’re the Best Valentine! 💘

02/12/2026

Happy Thursday! Here’s this week’s card pull.

May it serve you well! 🙏🏻

02/11/2026

Watching the snow begin to fall, a dark-eyed Junco flew in to view and landed on the Hemlock. Such pretty little birds with a very dark grey/black head and upper body, and a bright white belly. They speak to me of the balance of light and dark of life.

Ted Andrews, in Animal speak says they symbolize “adaptability, survival, and the balancing of personal strengths and weaknesses. As a "snowbird" appearing in winter, it brings messages of hope, renewal, and the need for introspection, encouraging you to voice your inner truth and shed unnecessary, noisy chatter.”

A message that speaks to the heart from a beautiful little bird friend that popped in to say, hello.

(Photo credit is unknown)

02/10/2026

What do you want to do about how you are feeling?

If you’re happy, how to you want to express and share it?
If you’re hope-filled, how do you want to work to help fulfill that hope?
If you are worried, how to you want to process and release it?
If you are angry, how do you want to learn what you need from it and let it go?
If you are sad, how do you want to get through it?

Express your emotions and then honor them with your actions. Then you make those emotions work best for You. And those around you.

02/08/2026

Looking outside this morning at the beautifully snow blanketed trees with the sun beaming through the branches…and marveling at the gorgeous world we live in.

While being grateful for our beloved home with blessed heat to comfort me as I enjoy our world.

Fill your heart by simply pausing quietly and looking around you.

It’s a beautiful day to feel grateful.

02/07/2026

There are times I’m at a loss for words. And I can’t find what to say to help us find a way to make sense of what we are living. We are in such an advanced time that there’s no justification for some actions. So I’ll say this, if you believe in a greater power that made humans, then each and everyone of those divine beings is equal under that power. Otherwise you must believe the Divine is erred. You cannot claim the belief in a Greater Power to have created divine life in one hand and diminish some of those lives in another.

Disrespect and degrading others isn’t the sign of greatness. Respect, Kindness, and empowering others as you wish to receive the same, is.

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Please.

02/06/2026

Let’s lighten things up a little.

02/05/2026

If a stranger walked up to you on a sidewalk and called you an idiot, you’d be confused, perhaps angry but you’d walk away wondering what their issue is. Placing the responsibility on them while walking away not owning their label of you.

Social media = same.

Distance, wonder about them if you feel you really need to, and drop their labels where they left them.
They are playing hot potato. Trying to pass along something they received. You don’t have to be “it”.

Drop it like it’s hot!

02/04/2026

02/02/2026

In this beautiful morning, snow is being lightly blown from the upper branches of the Spruce. As it falls, the sun illuminates it just perfectly so that it looks like tiny sparkling glitter gliding down from above.

Pure magic is just outside the window.

Do go see it.

02/01/2026

When considering what you’re grateful for, go beyond a brief bullet list. Mindfully travel through why you are grateful for each one.

If you are grateful for someone, what is it that makes you feel that about them.

Dive into the depths of your gratitude. That’s what reminds of how very much you have and etches it in your heart to come back to time and time again.

Sunday Gratitude journaling is the gift that keeps on giving.