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Karen Runge

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Greetings, fellow earth-traveling soul. It is an honour to meet you here. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป๐Ÿ’– ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Love is love. ๐Ÿ’ž I've been to hell and back a few times during this lifetime, and it has taught me the way to heaven on earth โ€“ just go in the opposite direction! ๐Ÿ”™๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿ”น โ€œIt is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.โ€ ~ Rabindranath Tagore After failing spectacularly at finding love outside myself (๐Ÿ’”), I embarked on the journey of a lifetime to rediscover it where it had always been โ€“ within me (๐Ÿ’). ๐Ÿ”น โ€œSomething we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves." ~ Robert Frost ๐Ÿ”น โ€œBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.โ€ ~ Oscar Wilde ๐Ÿ”น โ€œTo love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.โ€ ~ Oscar Wilde ๐Ÿ”น โ€œEnter into yourself, then, and see that your soul loves itself fervently...โ€ ~ Saint Bonaventure ๐Ÿ”น "One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking โ€“ a detour, an error." ~ Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse ๐Ÿ”น โ€œWe are waves of the same sea, leaves of the same tree, flowers of the same garden.โ€ ~ Seneca (Iโ€™ve lived so many stories I canโ€™t believe they all happened in one lifetime. ๐Ÿ“š And sometimes I wonder who they really happened to. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ) After many years of structured living in the corporate world on two continents, followed by nine years ๐Ÿ„ farming in Quebec, I am currently walking a formless path of spontaneous service and humour โ€“ with lots of surprising pauses along the way! ๐Ÿคฃ โ€ข Passionately curious ๐Ÿค” โ€ข Sees beauty ๐ŸŒˆ โ€ข Chronically optimistic ๐Ÿ˜Š โ€ข Lifelong learner/discoverer ๐Ÿ—บ โ€ข Cultivating expansiveness and emptiness ๐Ÿ”€ Superpowers: โ€ข Love ๐Ÿ’– (by grace) โ€ข Gratitude (by choice) โ€ข ADHD (filters? ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ) โ€ข talking with โ€œstrangersโ€ ๐Ÿ”„ โ€ข connecting the dots โžก๏ธโ€ขโฌ…๏ธ Now: intuition, nature ๐ŸŒณ, photography, writing, wisdom, spirituality, Gene Keys aficionado ๐Ÿงฌ, devotional chanting ๐ŸŽถ, soul contracts ๐Ÿ’ž, Akashic records ๐Ÿ“š, meditation / contemplation ๐Ÿง˜๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ Then: ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป international IT management (early coder), travel, dairy farming ๐Ÿ„ (learned enough that I would not do it again), purebred dog breeding ๐Ÿ• Still: telepathic animal communication which continues to expand into all life. Forever: soul, human, child, daughter, sister, cousin, friend, mother, (x)wife, partner, widow, grandmother ๐Ÿฅฐ IG: kar_runge Maritimes in Canada