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    Lessons in Life: Travelling Through the Colours of the Rainbow
    Lessons in Life: Travelling Through the Colours of the Rainbow
    Lessons in Life: Travelling Through the Colours of the Rainbow
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    Lessons in Life: Travelling Through the Colours of the Rainbow

    By Deborah J Weston

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    If I had but one wish to be fulfilled, it would be that I could be happy always. Do you ever ask yourself, Why am I here? Who am I? What is my purpose? Be assured you are not alone.

    While some people are happy to settle for the comfortable, routine path through life, others of us find that path simply unacceptable. True happiness is as varied as there are those to experience it; the challenge lies in allowing ourselves the chance to seek it out. In Lessons in Life: Travelling through the Colours of the Rainbow, author and world traveller Deborah J Weston leads us on a journey of self-discoverya search for our own sense of purpose and for the answers to our questions about love, life, happiness, fate and consequence.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press AU
    Release dateJul 30, 2013
    ISBN9781452502427
    Lessons in Life: Travelling Through the Colours of the Rainbow
    Author

    Deborah J Weston

    Weston’s vibrant prose and deeply intuitive poems invite us to share her journey through twenty-two American states and through the states of her being as her own quest for happiness reveals itself along her path. At times humorous and at times incredible, the heartfelt philosophical exploration of Lessons in Life takes us to the open doorway, to the moment when we can choose our life as it is or our life as it could be.

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      Book preview

      Lessons in Life - Deborah J Weston

      Contents

      Travel my Rainbow

      PART ONE

      Soul of the Mind

      PART TWO

      Rivers of the Heart and Soul

      PART THREE

      Travelling on the Train

      PART FOUR

      The Turning of the World

      PART FIVE

      Back to the Real World

      PART SIX

      The Promise

      PART SEVEN

      The Road to the Top

      More Poems from the Journey

      Can I Take You There?

      The Track of Life

      Confused Confusions

      Where Two Hearts Go

      Arrival

      Views Before Me

      Time to Share

      Shattered Pieces

      Top This Love

      Soul Journey

      See the Dust

      Wheels-a-Turning

      Back Home to You

      Descend to Reality

      Note from Author:

      USA Trip Journal

      For My Wonderful family:

      My True Soul mate, partner and friend for life who lights up my world so even my darkest days are filled with infinite

      Light and Love.

      My Beautiful Sister, Vikki and my Brother-In-Law, Lee,

      and their Gorgeous children

      Ross and Lorna.

      And of course, my fabulous Mum and Dad,

      without whom none of this would ever have been possible!

      I Love You All!

      Also, to All Fellow Travellers…. This is for you!

      Ode to a Traveller

      To All You Fellow Travellers

      Who Pass This Way or Stay

      Open Up Your Mind

      To This Very Special Place

      Where Heaven sits and Waits

      And Angels Laugh and Play

      Feel the Beauty in Your Heart

      From The Magic It Creates

      Forever To Be With You

      Forever Yours

      Amen.

      Travel my Rainbow

      All the colours

      Of the world

      Are open to me

      I see them all,

      Pale and deep

      Begging for my touch,

      Tempting me enough

      To want to reach

      To feel how it feels

      Each shade

      Of Love and Light

      As it opens up

      To me and reveals

      A stepping stone

      Desire with each step

      Moving towards

      The ultimate pledge

      Between myself, and

      All that life can give

      To me, if I just

      Reach out and live.

      Take my hand

      Come with me,

      I’ll take you where

      You desire to be

      Take my hand

      I’ll lead you there

      Travel my rainbow

      I’ll show you where

      We can be free

      To explore and refrain

      From ever losing

      Our love-

      Let it begin again!

      Aeroplane flies high

      Up in the blue

      Of the calm

      Cloud free sky

      Flying over

      Valleys of green

      Mountains of red

      Like you’ve never seen

      The yellow sun fades

      Leaving behind

      Shades of orange and pink

      The purple reaches way beyond

      Any other colour could reach

      Healing my soul,

      Freeing the white

      Binding all the colours

      Creating a rainbow

      In my heart

      For all the world to see

      The deepest blue ocean

      Rolling plains of green

      Bright yellow daffodils

      Tulips red, scarlet

      As you ever did see

      Fruit bearing orange trees

      Lavender filled fields,

      The white of a daisy

      Brown oak trees

      Shades of black

      Through shades of white

      I’ll show you them all

      If that’s what you’d like!

      Pure drops of blood

      Orange burning fire

      The sweet yellow rose

      Green grass of home

      Lines of bluebells

      For all to smell

      The soft touch

      Of purple velvet

      Completes my spell

      The brightest of white

      As you realise what’s right

      Travel my rainbow

      End the fight

      Desire to experience

      Desire to feel

      All the colours of life

      I’ll take you there ‘til

      You travel my rainbow

      Every day,

      Every minute, every second

      Each and every way.

      So take my hand

      I’ll lead you there

      Travel my rainbow

      I’ll show you where

      We can be free

      To explore and refrain

      From ever losing

      Our love-

      Let it begin again!

      PART ONE

      LESSONS REPEATED

      If I had but one wish to be fulfilled, it would be that I could be happy always. Why people are not makes no apparent sense to me! Sure, we all have expectations to live up to, but does it really take such courage to take one look at your life and upon realising it is not living up to your own expectations, actually do something about it?

      I no longer live like other people! That does not mean that I am a hermit or an outcast, simply that I choose to do whatever it is I want to – and basically that boils down to what makes me happy. Before you put this down in disgust or condemn me as being selfish in my beliefs, let me tell you that I am the least selfish person in the universe – as all who know me will attest! I would do everything and anything to please those who I hold dear (and believe me when I say I have!) Let me ask you just one thing; Are you really happy? If you truly are 100% of the time then it would be a pleasure to meet you!

      So what is TRUE happiness, and why is it so complicated that everyone experiences it in different ways? Before you even think about beginning to answer that, first of all spend some time thinking about Quality, what it is and how it can be defined. The great American writer and philosopher, Robert Pirsig (along with many others no doubt), explored many possibilities in his endearing philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and ended up precisely where? Precisely nowhere – that’s where! And shall I tell you why? Maybe it’s because so many people spend so much time analysing, delving into, and exploring ideas and possibilities that they end up going around in a circle! Or is it merely a fact that there is no single answer? Could it be that quality of life creates or causes happiness?

      There are so many questions I ask, and no one seems to have any answers! Why does the thought of alien life excite me? Why when someone of great importance dies, do I feel an urgent desire to go and fill her place and continue all the good causes she created in the world, because that would make me feel good? Is it really all about Love, or Money? I only ask because I really don’t think I know!

      Most people have this massive faith in a force or being, in the way of a religion or a belief and all I’ve ever believed in is myself, infinite love and my family who brought me up to think that way. They have so much love for me and I am sure even they occasionally lose faith, thinking that maybe I am not the wonderful human being they created, raised and live for! I’m not religious as such, although I live my life with spiritualist values. Like many other children, I always believed that my Mum and Dad could do anything – and they did! They made me believe in myself, and taught me to have the strength to achieve all my hopes and make all my dreams come true. And they do…and they are…

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      I’m up above the streets and houses – wish there were a rainbow…there always was a rainbow in my garden! It was always there, brightening my life and my world. The healing colours; Red – Passion, Orange and Yellow – Fire and Sun, Green for Nature, Blue for the skies and oceans, and my most favourite shades of purple; Indigo and Violet – deeply spiritual, sensual as velvet, smooth as silk, connecting us with those other realms!

      Mum and Dad are able to recall fragments of a poem that as a child I read over and over.

      "There’s a Rainbow in my garden, for you and for me,

      In the garden of my cottage, beside the shining sea…

      Yellow are the daffodils, such a lovely hue,

      Indigo the pansy face, a kind of shiny blue…"

      I have always enjoyed poetry, and of course rainbows and all the bright rainbow colours! Now I often create poetry, and magic colours in

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