Lessons in Life: Travelling Through the Colours of the Rainbow

By Deborah J Weston

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Jul 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781452502427

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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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