Elevate Your Life
Find inspiration in everyday living through self-awareness
and thoughtful positive purpose.
Elevate Your Life
Find inspiration in everyday living through self-awareness
and thoughtful positive purpose.
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Beliefs
A Universal Good, a Higher Self and the Power of Grace. These beliefs are at the core of every action and are shared through thoughtful dialogue and meaningful insight with each other.
Vision
Envision a world where everyone can find their meaningful purpose in life and use it to make a positive impact on the people around them; changing the world one person at a time or everyone all at once.
Community
Making positive changes is easier when you have the support of like-minded individuals, who are also working towards similar life affirming goals.
River Rings' Origin
I’ve always had an affinity for Ireland even though my family roots have no connection to it. In early-1995, I made a solo trip to Ireland and traveled throughout the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. This trip was personally enriching and would reaffirm my beliefs about the physical body, the intellectual mind and the timeless spirit.
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On my last days of travels, I returned for a second stay in Galway to join the St. Patrick’s Day festivities of March 17th. As an American, having the opportunity to experience this event in its country of origin was both fascinating and also a reminder of the overwhelming impact of Romano-British Christianity on the Irish people in the 5th century. (see note below*)
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On my last day in Galway, before departing to Dublin for my final night in Ireland, I took a morning walk through Galway and the pathways along the River Corrib. It’s lost to memory now how I found my way to a calm, flat and rocky river’s edge. As I stopped to take in the fresh air and feel the mists from the water, I noticed a formation of rocks that didn’t appear naturally created. As I approached the formation, I could see that a certain area had been framed into a large circle with river stones (a mix of stone between approximately 4X4 to 6x6). Within the larger circle, there was another framed circle of smaller river stones. One circle within the other, but 6-8 inches apart. In the very middle, there were rocks of all sized that piled into a thin, but tall mound. I remember wondering if someone had placed them as a remembrance or offering to the Tuatha Dé Danann** on St. Patrick Day, as a reminder that the old ways of the Irish would always remain present despite the efforts of the modern world to make them obsolete. Perhaps a reminder that while we evolve in the world through human action, as spiritual beings our very essence doesn’t disappear but transforms.
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The rings of the River Corrib; a River Ring.
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* By 1367, British law would make it illegal for the Irish to speak Gaelic in British colonies. And, by the 1830s, the introduction of English-speaking compulsory National Schools would eventually diminish the Irish people from learning Gaelic. Today, much has changed, and Irish schools require students to take Gaelic classes until the age of 13. Hopefully, this will over time bring a resurgence of the Irish speaking Gaelic, not as a second language, but as their native language.
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** The Tuatha Dé Danann are believed to be the folks of the Goddess Danu and a supernatural race in Irish mythology. Many of them are thought to be deities of pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland. In summary, beings that have supernatural powers (i.e. druids, bards, healers).