About Me: The headline to my page is a Latin saying which means “Everything changes and we change with it.†It describes my life, especially recently.
I have been a single parent for the past 13 years. My daughter has recently moved away and I now have an empty nest. I have also recently went back to being an employee after being self employed for the past few years. These two changes alone have significantly changed my daily existence.
I believe that we create our own results in life, both good and bad, by the choices and decisions we make. Everything happens for a reason. Either we have learned the lesson and we get it right, or we continue to get it wrong until the lesson is learned.
My name is Keri Just. A first name spelling that causes gender confusion when in the written form. And a prompting from most people to say "oh, it's just Keri" when it is in the spoken form. It is an original Welsh male spelling, taken over by a hand lotion. Most everybody calls me Keri... unless they are mad at me.
I am typically a very positive person and free of drama. I don’t live in the past, although I do live too much in the future. I am working on being more present and living in the moment. I haven't watched TV in several years and would rather be outside or reading.
I am curious about many subjects and have an eclectic interest in my pursuits. I will sometimes intensely and passionately immerse myself into learning about something new, often to the exclusion of all else, and then completely walk away from it once I have it mastered, or have at least understood it. I have gotten better at moderation in recent years.
I have been single for the past 13 years with a few serious relationships in that time. None of which have ever included living together. I know that this tells a lot about me, I am just not sure what it says? Maybe someday I will learn that lesson as well.
I have a less than favorable opinion of organized religion, although I believe that everyone has the right to believe what they believe without being persuaded or persecuted by others who happen to have a different viewpoint. God, whatever that means to you, is a very personal thing. In my opinion, the message of faith and belief has been twisted and perverted over the centuries.
I am a spiritual person and my thoughts and views have changed as I have gone through life. That is as it should be. If you think and believe the same at 45 as you did at 25 you have basically wasted 20 years of your life.
I have a scientific perspective on everything. Science hasn’t yet given all the answers to life, but I believe it eventually will. I think that religion and science will one day reconcile. Although that day is likely far off. We live in a miraculous universe filled with mystery, but I have to believe that it is knowable and explainable from a logical viewpoint. With that said, I do feel that we are all connected and that there is a higher power that we are a part of. I just can’t subscribe to an angry, vengeful white haired being sitting on a throne in the sky.
Politically I am liberal, although I don’t always escape my conservative upbringing. I rarely see everything in black and white. There are multiple sides to every story and I will investigate them.
I highly value creativity. Ingenuitive as well as artistic. I appreciate art in all its forms. The older I get the more I realize how important art is to all life, if not at least to my life.
All we have are our stories that we create. This is my story today. I may choose to change it, for I have the ability to do so.
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - but in being able to remake ourselves."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
~ Crowfoot, Blackfoot Warrior (1821-1890)
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A Video I Made of Some Favorite Quotes...
"That which you fear the most will meet you half way."
~ Victoria Williams