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Pegge Erkeneff

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Living & writing from a river in Alaska. Grief. Beauty. Thresholds. Author. Retreat host @riverravensanctuary. Each crossing—a homecoming. 💝🕊️🪶

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Open the present

Nature, fishing, and the river teach me that discernment and presence rise from grounding in time and place: gaze steady, mind clear, heart open, connected, while everything is in motion, visible and beneath the surface.

No posing. Full body presence. Showing up.

In this I love and move and experience being.

📷: Kenai River, Alaska, July 2026 by @peggeerkeneff

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15 days ago

💝Open the present
Autumn whale watching
Clouds capture attention too
Earth and sky delight

📷: Kenai River, incoming tide, Belugas swim in calm water at river bend, seals lurking around, too. 40 something degrees by @peggeerkeneff

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17 days ago

This has always been true for me! 🥲

📷: Cook Inlet beach sunset, Kenai, Alaska by @peggeerkeneff

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20 days ago

Welcoming Autumn this morn with low 30s temps, frosty air, and dewy green grass during morning sun gazing.

Though I’m not quite ready yet, I’ll embrace the light and chill in the air, and begin winterizing.

Time passes more more rapidly these years—so in turn, I must slow down, and notice. Appreciate. Give thanks. 💛

#alaska #kenai #sunrise by @peggeerkeneff

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25 days ago

Breathing.
Seals slap the nearly slack tide surface, dive, hunting breakfast
Seagulls cacophony reverberates
I linger still, 45 minutes now, sunkissed 🌟💛🌼🔆🫶
#thankyou by @peggeerkeneff

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Postcard 014: Thirty Seconds in a Coalescing Sunrise

Posted up on the low-tide shoreline, an eagle passes, two magpies, a blue jay. Seagulls call, seals move quietly through a mix of fresh and salt water. Fish below the surface, unseen by me, yet sensed. Orange everywhere—sky, surface reflections, and in nasturtium and snapdragon blooms on the deck, mirroring this morning without trying.

This is what pause can be.

Not stopping the world, rather, stepping into right relationship with it—with light, with place, with time folding past into present into whatever comes next. A coalescing, elementally guided by sky, water, and every living being sharing this moment.

Here. Now. Everything, all at once. Open the present—it’s pure gift.

🌼 Pause Here Postcard 014 — Kenai River, Alaska

A simple practice from Open the Present® with Pegge

#PauseHerePostcard #OpenThePresent #KenaiRiver #Sunrise #alaskalife by @peggeerkeneff

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Shore bird sounds abound

River flow singing to sea

Breath stills in rhythm

Seals grunt awake from slumber

Low tide walk complete, I’m simply present, posted up on three random tree trunks now slung between two trees

Curious as I wandered the muddy riverbed, with peace in every step, reflecting how words are wands, and earlier tracks told a story alongside my booted footprints. A moose was here, and unknown track to me too, perhaps a muskrat or mink, foraging along the low tide river shore.

A breeze now tickles my skin

Reminding me the world is awakened, and my gift of more than an hour here can set the pace for a contemplative full day. Maybe I’ll meander with joy and ease through the necessary tasks, like the juvenile gull I’ve been watching, whose coloring blends in the mud, as it too slowly walks the shoreline.

Fog is dissipating—here comes the sun!

💝🙏 May your day be grace-full & wonder-full! by @peggeerkeneff

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2 months ago

Sockeye salmon dolphining, a bit of chaos at Bing’s Landing, noon, July 30, 2026.
We’ve limited on sockeyes on fly rods, then flyfishing for rainbows and Dolly Varden.

So grateful for this life!

#openthepresent #alaska #kenairiver #sockeyesalmon #fishing by @peggeerkeneff

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2 months ago

Today, between guests, shoes off, is how I recharge—sitting still long enough for the river to do the talking.

The sockeye salmon are finally making their way in on the incoming tide. My small town is overfull and everyone will be fishing tonight. And tomorrow. And the next day.

🌧️ Yesterday, on my way to my lodge for the next week, I had what I’m calling a personal power outage, after days and days of rain, and recovering from a summer cold. Exhaustion prevailed. I needed a 🌈, hope. The winds blew, today the sun shines.

A little bird landed on this post and stayed a while. Chirp, cheep, unhurried. I don’t know its name. We gazed and breathed together for several minutes.

💝 Invitation: How or where do you recharge when you have a personal power outage? What does recognizing over-doing anything tell you about your life? Most importantly…what are you grateful for, here and now?

🌼 Pause Here Postcard 013 — @riverravensanctuary on the Kenai River, Soldotna, Alaska

Finding peace and place beneath the pace.

A two-minute practice from Open the Present® with Pegge

#openthepresent #seeingsimply #pausehere #kenairiver taken in River Raven Sanctuary Lodge by @peggeerkeneff

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3 months ago

For 30 years I’ve accompanied people in this exact place—the space between what’s happened and what wants to happen next.

Spiritual direction and soul care is about listening, right now, for what’s moving within you, and for the Spirit moving in the outer landscape—both inviting and intriguing simultaneously.

Compassionate listening leads to discerned action in response to your inner aliveness, and the movements of spirit that some name God.

What’s stirring in you today?

💖 Pegge
#spiritualdirection #openthepresent #contemplativelife #soulcare #innerwork by @peggeerkeneff

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3 months ago

So grateful for this life, family, friends, and freedom! ❤️🤍💙 taken in River Raven Sanctuary Lodge by @peggeerkeneff

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Pause Here Postcard 012–Kenai River, Alaska

9:40 PM. Twelve hours of work behind me. The river edge is calling.

I walk to the shoreline and wander. Cracked mud captivates, then stops me. Glacier silt, patterning a mosaic, miniature green shoots pushing through every seam. Life, insisting.

A tiny yellow flower. A feather, then several, saying hello as I walk. The chaos we carry inside us has a way of loosening out here. Something untangles. Everything slows. My ADHD mind unquivers.

And then, quietly, as I walk with my feet kissing the land, and peace in every step, delight arrives. Then gratitude. Which is harder than it sounds. To seek and receive goodness when you’re weary and vulnerable takes courage. And it frees us.

Come walk with me, as I free flow thoughts arising from within.

💖 Paused here, Pegge

Finding peace and place beneath the pace.

💝 A 5-minute practice from Open the Present® with Pegge

#openthepresent #seeingsimply #pausehere #KenaiRiver #ADHD by @peggeerkeneff

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