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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 Monday December 22, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

A new week always offers a chance to do things differently. Make a pledge to listen to your inner spirit more often this week. Make a pledge to change one thing every day this week. Make a pledge to finally begin that one thing you have longed to start. Make a pledge to pay attention to what matters most to you as each day begins. Make a pledge to change what needs change the most.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Monday December 8, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

A new week, a new day, a new opportunity. Find the sacred in this day, within your heart, the one thing that has meaning for you right now, and give it space to expand. Give it room to experience growth. Move something out of the way so it can have a little more room in your life today. Perhaps you just need to move an old thought out of your head and let something from your heart replace it. Perhaps an old habit that no longer serves you needs to be left behind and a new and more beneficial activity needs to be instituted instead. Perhaps you have longed to start something that has meaning for you and you decide that this is the perfect day to give it a chance. Life is meant to be lived to the fullest. Give it a chance by doing something you have longed to do that is right and beneficial. Make it the first step on your journey of real change.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday December 3, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Abrupt and sudden change is often the catalyst that helps someone find their truth, that helps someone take a new direction in life, that helps someone find their right path. But more often than not that abrupt and sudden change is unnecessary. If change is needed, it is already known. But the sad thing is that though that knowledge exists, it is often not acted upon. If you know that change is needed, act upon it before something drastic happens to make you act upon it. You have the power within you to change without being given a dire life verdict, an illness, a devastating sadness. Make your move while you can, in full consciousness and with full focus placed on a more fulfilling life, because you have the desire and the will to freely choose it.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday November 14, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

When change is upon you, do not fear it but be open to it. Be curious, be available, and seek to understand it. When we speak of being aware or awake, we mean to encourage just this kind of openness, with all your senses ready to accept some new ideas, new insights, new ways of being that you have not considered before. To be awake and aware is to be ready to receive anything, anyone, any idea or vision, just as you would an old friend whom you have not seen in a long while and whom you receive with open, loving arms, eager to hear where they have been and how they are doing. What is life showing you right now that you are not receiving with open, loving arms?

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne