love breeds peace
At our corner, we believe treating people kindly, with the drum of our heart beating rhythms of love, strengthens individuals, unites families, builds relationships, and ultimately, creates healthy, prosperous, and united communities. Living where the commonality of a people, despite the differences in our personal beliefs, without judgement, creates a peaceful environment. Isn’t that what it’s all about?
Hello world.
Here we are, well into the first month of yet another year of this new decade. While it’s only the start of year two, I find myself feeling as if it’s been at least five. And as I sit behind my little black desk, listening to the calming melodies of Agnes Obel, penning this blog, my first one in a year, I admit, it is with a bit of a struggle. Where do I begin? How do I justify my retreat behind these hazel eyes? Or my sinking into the hollow of my soul if only to seek comfort, or expound on how the shell of my body has been guided forward by nothing except for a song my heart remembers?
I suppose, I will attempt to explain myself in these words.
Love. It’s such a complicated word. Complicated because there are so many ways to take the meaning of it into consideration. We are all taught a version of how to love based on what is understood by the one teaching it to us. And it seems to begin with our parents, our siblings— or the people who raise us. We love them, because…
Hi. It’s me, Rachel, founder and owner of corner of peace+love.
My decision to write these blogs was based on a desire to change the tone and the messages that we have been seeing too frequently on social media platforms, after finding so many angry people yelling at others for not thinking or believing like them; after finding that…
What a moment we are living in within this spectrum of time and place. While we sit in quiet repose during this COVID quarantine, the ribbons of the sun continue to flash their colors of perfection as she dances across our sky with each passing day; our moon waxes up to its full glory illuminating our dark nights with a radiant glow before he wanes into a perfect void, where the only light fragments appear from the sparkle of the brilliant stars, leaving me feeling…
Can you believe we are in the final weeks of summer and already stepping towards autumn? As I look back at this year, I find myself somewhat awestruck that it has been seven months since I self-isolated. It feels like yesterday that I was preparing myself mentally, emotionally and logically, to shelter in place. But as the nation started to slowly open back up, I was able to visit with family members because of a medical emergency, and even spent some time with a friend, once. Mostly though, I stay home and keep myself entertained by…
Guard your heart. That is what my mother used to tell me as I was growing up. The rationale behind those words for her were based on what she had been taught by her mother. She told me that everything you are stems from your heart; words are said, sentiments are carried forward, and beliefs are formed. By guarding your heart, you understand the value of it not being broken, so you become more mindful of how you treat others and more likely to do so with kindness instead.
If there is one thing we all have in common, it is that we each experience and understand love that is uniquely our own, whether it is in our personal relationship with our parents, our siblings, our friendships, or our romantic interludes. We give love in the way we know and in the way we’ve been shown. And when you’ve been hurt, do you know how to replenish the source?