thank YOU!

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Today I sit here filled with so much love thinking of all the beautiful Love Notes that have been sent through the mail.  They have traveled from your hands, through the hands of the mailman, and then arrived safely in a mail box to the hands of someone you may not have even known.

I thank you for your courage for taking a chance on the Love Notes project.  For showing up and pouring your heart into it.  As I sit here going through some of the Love Notes that arrived in my mailbox, tears fill my eyes.  Living proof that my small idea actually did come to life.  I am blown away.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!  Without each of you it never would have happened.

Wishing each of you a beautiful day of thanks.  Know that I hold you each dearly in my heart and am giving thanks to each of you and the love you have shared.

xo
Jennifer

filled with thanks

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On this day of thanks I am filled with so much gratitude and love.  For family and friends and the life that we are creating each and every day.  My mind is filled with memories.  My heart is overflowing with love.  I feel like the luckiest person alive to be living this life.  To get to experience so much laughter with those around me and to be right here, right now in this moment.

I am also so grateful for each of you here who show up and read my words and provide so much love and support.  Each little word you leave me makes my heart light up.  Thank you for being a part of my life.

Wishing each of you a wonderful Thanksgiving.  A day filled with light and laughter.  And hope that we all gather here again next year with stories of a fabulous year!

thankful

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I am thankful for...
* Family and all the time we get to spend with each other
* Brothers, and the sisters I never had
* The love of my life and the way he makes me laugh every day
* Deep friendships and the paths we walk with each other
* Having two places of employment
* Creative ideas that fill my head and make me giddy
* Music that makes me want to get up and dance
* Watching the Love Notes Project blossom
* Being right here, right now

special edition underway

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Love Notes Special Edition ~ Emerging from Sandy is underway.  This week a little bit of sunshine will be shared through good old fashion mail to those who have been and still are struggling from the storm.   What a lovely surprise in the mail for those individuals during this Thanksgiving week.

I had the opportunity to share the project on the 

Mahwah Patch

.  This is the very first news article published about Love Notes ~ super cool!  It was great to share this project, which is so dear to my heart, with the local folks in my community.  And it has been really heart warming to see local individuals signing up to participate.

Words are so powerful and receiving a little something in the mail can really change the course of someones day.  I am a firm believer in this and am so grateful to all of those who join in on each of my projects.

the tango

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During the day light hours I am deep in the throngs of the corporate world

Taking things off line

Attending touch bases

Circling back

Discussing my core competencies

Two nights during the week I am serving meals to families and individuals

Sometimes I am in the weeds

I 86 mustard

Add avocado

And shake up a tasty Apple Martini

And then in the moments between I am a writer

Pulling feelings from my heart

Giving them a voice on the page

Showing up, letting go

Vulnerably sharing myself

It is a tango of sorts

Dancing between the different languages

Navigating the varying degrees of appropriateness

Knowing when to speak from a place of feeling

And when to analyze based solely on facts

The heart is on a mission to win

Always looking to shed a layer of the corporate skin

Revealing a more confidante and comfortable self

Connections building through conversation

A moment of understanding and awareness

Within the three cubicle walls that surround me, my writer self is concealed

Only few know of my love affair with words

And passion to capture the world with my lens

I am reserved, and thoughtful

The quiet warrior getting the work done

In the hustle and bustle of the restaurant I am JenB

The girl no one really sees

Quickly falling under the radar as I go about the work at hand

Gracefully sweeping the floor, refilling ice, and bringing out the next tray of food

After two nights, I am gone until next week

But the writer self is always there

Weaving words together in my mind

Showing up, day after day

A new thought, a new moment to capture

A poem to be written

I do not always catch these words on the page

Sometimes they come, filling me with inspiration

Making my heart flutter

I say I will write them down

But I let them go

Other times I stop dead in my tracks

Grab my pen and notebook and have at it

The words flowing from my heart

Fueling my days

Inspring me to keep on going

I am a writer

No matter where I am the writer mind is always at work

Weaving words together, coming up with new ideas

Writing page after page in my mind

The writer in me never sleeps

And so I dance this tango

Moving from one job to the other

Constantly transitioning

Dancing, dancing, dancing

But always, always writing the story in my head