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New Year, New Beginnings

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

As 2025 comes to an end and the New Year begins, we would like to thank everyone who has traveled with us, those who are new to our work and those who have followed our work for a long time. We are full of gratitude for the journey we have all taken together.

Some of you have accompanied us from the very beginning, when we first created and launched our website, and others have found your way to us through word of mouth or happenstance. Riverwalker Press has been around now  for twenty years! Wow!

It is always our pleasure to share what we learn about life, to make some small but hopefully meaningful contributions as we figure out the worlds we inhabit, our mysterious inner world and our equally mysterious outer world as well.

As we step into 2026, we bring you a new offering. Our Soulbytes will be published every day of the week, including Saturdays and Sundays, so there will be no interruptions in guidance from the Universe. The Universe is always ready to communicate. So are we!

As we all pull back into the quietude of the season, we wish everyone a calm and peaceful holiday season, ringed round with joy and permeated with love. May the New Year bring the gift of good fortune and good will to everyone, at home and around the world, in all worlds.

Thank you, and all our love,
Jan and Chuck

Soulbyte for Wednesday December 10, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

It’s never too late to make amends for any perceived mistakes you made, to in some way repair any damage you feel you have caused to another. It’s never too late to say that you are sorry for hurting someone or letting someone know that you love them. There are very direct ways, but sometimes the more subtle ways are more effective, more acceptable, and more reliable. Sending positive thoughts and affirmations to another person, good vibrations of love and appreciation, will land solidly upon them and they will feel so much better, and so will you. It’s very enjoyable to make someone’s day so much better without ever telling them that you have been thinking about them. Silent love is stronger than any spoken words of affection.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Monday October 13, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

A spirit contained and concentrated on positive input and output has a greater chance of affecting energy far beyond itself than a spirit that is caught in worry and inner turmoil. Find within you your own calm and contained spirit, the flame of light and love within you, and turn up its light and its love so that you personally positively affect the very environment around you. This is an inner job, and it takes focus and concentration, but it will soon have great impact outside of you. Begin within, project outwardly, and see what happens.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday October 9, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Stay focused and contained, keeping mind and body balanced, heart and spirit aligned. These are trying times and the best you can do in trying times is to try your best. You will not fail if you put your attention strongly upon the practice of prayer, meditation, manifestation and heart centered love for all in need. Keep a daily practice going so that the world may one day soon return to balance and peace.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Monday October 6, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Begin the day with gratitude, with love in your heart and with thanks for the opportunity to do something special for yourself today, and to help another person as well. Keep in mind that the greatest gift is to be available for someone else in need. You are never really alone in life, no matter your current situation. There is always a means to connect with others, often the best way being to show up and give of yourself in some way. Whatever your abilities and expertise, you can surely show up and help someone in need, in some way.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne