The gift of you

Sit with the idea that you are a gift. You are a gift, an absolute gift. When you think of an absolute gift, it goes in all directions. It is not only received or given. It is multi directional and unilateral. It goes to you and from you. You are simply the anchor place for holding the gift.

As light travels so do your thoughts and you travel. Wherever you are, your gift is present. In amongst people, animals, nature - you are always a gift.

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Jenn Shallvey
Not one way, your way and our way

One way

…at a time.

I looked up at this sign on my walk and thought about the words. In an ordered world of cars and safety it is important to make sure we know you go the right direction. The path is set out and mapped for you. All you need to do is follow and adhere to the rules. Right?

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Jenn Shallvey
Peace you

Peace you!

Yes that’s what I said.

Peace you!

Hmm. Why?

Well it came to me the other day that perhaps the world could benefit a bit more from peace right now and this word. It seems that other words, one word of profanity in particular, has got our attention. I won’t say it. Not because I don’t, but because in this post I want the energy to be all about finding peace.

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Jenn Shallvey
Stories we tell

See yourself as an author. You are an author of your life. As you sit down to write, begin to ask yourself the question, what would I write? If you were to pen the story of your life, how might it begin? What would be the beginning, middle and end, as they say, in your story? What would you write about in sharing your story?

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Jenn Shallvey
Remember When...

A trip down memory lane. Waxing nostalgic. The good ole days. Memory like an elephant. Just a few catch phrases that take you into the past. Each of these are positive in that you apparently value the event or experience of the past with high regard.

Some memories can also be challenging and something that we don't want to bring back to awareness let alone rehash or reexperience.

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Jenn Shallvey
Hanging the laundry on the line is pure joy

At some point in life we need to do laundry and hang it up to dry. It may be washing a shirt while travelling or putting an entire load in a machine each week. No matter your privilege, ability to outsource or your circumstances there is a time when this task may be not just essential but the only option.

So why joy?

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Jenn Shallvey
Where we are going is not necessarily where we have been

here is a sense that what we have done before will work again.

There is a sense that how we do things has to be proven, known and repeated before we can actually do something properly.

I am feeling right now, in this current time, that we need to challenge this assumption. Not throw away all that information, knowledge, learning, experience, not at all. What I'm suggesting is innovation, adaptation, growth and change all come from doing things in a new way differently than we have done before.

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Jenn Shallvey