I want to thank YOU, the recipients of my bi-monthly newsletter, for what you’ve given me… whether you realized it or not.
By being out there as “the listening” that I write into, you have provided me with a reason to figure out what I have to say and how best to say it.
Last newsletter I wrote about The 3 V’s ~ your VISION, your VOICE, and your VALUE.
For a stretch of years now, my own dance with my 3 V’s has been one where I know I have a Voice… but my Vision for how best to use it at this time in my life has been fuzzy. Making it so I’m not using it as much as – or in the ways – I feel sure I’m meant to be using it (my idea about myself is that I was born to be churning our creative material from morning ’til night).
That incongruency creates fear in me about my ability to leave behind something of Value before I’m not here anymore. The clock’s ticking, after all.
This existential pickle I’m in calls to mind a wise woman in my life. Someone I babysat for when I first moved to NYC. She was one of the head writers for Reading Rainbow with LeVar Burton on PBS  which made 18-year-old me, fresh out of Maine feel famous by association.
One day I heard her say aloud to herself, “I always wondered what it would be. What my contribution would be, how I’ll leave my mark. I guess it’s this. And that’s OK.”
There was a lot of energy in her wondering and it made me wonder, “She’s in the big league, did she have other ideas about what it would be?”
Now, as a 59-year-old I’M wondering the same thing, “What will my contribution BE?”
And the point of this missive today is to acknowledge that thanks to YOU – thanks to what happens in the ongoing process of figuring out what to share with you next – I NOW KNOW!!
Ready?
It’s a very straightforward, unapologetic combining of my cartoon character Ruby with EFT Tapping. Two things I love.
You’ve witnessed me “kind of” doing it, but now it’s clear as day to me the marriage of these two loves IS MY VOICE!!
As I map out how I’ll showcase it in Substack (coming soon), here is the kind of thing I will do more of……….
Ta-da! That’s the direction. What do you think? And even more importantly…
How about YOU?🔥 What’s in your arsenal – your natural gifts, your well-honed crafts, your unique ways of perceiving, your love of _____ (what?) – that can be brought together in a way that nobody else is doing? 🔥 Do you have anything to lose by going ballsy-wallsy with a cool combining of such things? 🔥 How free with what’s possible are you allowing yourself to be? From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU, my newsletter community, for helping me to arrive at a form of expression that feels like my 3V’s are in exciting communication with each other! My wish is the same for you. |
