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My brave new world

Submitted by Jennifer Fisher

Hello,everybody! I have been away from here for several months, eager to return and leave my mark on the planet in a whole new way. Although I have been counseling and coaching others for almost twenty years, my heart truly wants to let go of so much talking in sessions and reach out to others in more practical ways. A series of physical and financial challenges and personal losses over the last couple of years has led me to exploring how I could become a significant supporter for those in need of meeting their basic needs as well as connecting others to more long-term resources such as healthcare and education for starters. It seems I have broken the record on “returning to the drawing board” with several office relocations (now happily from home, isn’t that funny?) and a clinical caseload that has been resilient but quite frankly, restructured more times than a rubiks cube in an effort to understand what my heart really wanted all along. I find myself letting go of a career and totally inspired by a woman who came up to me over two years ago at a taco bell drive thru cautiously asking if I knew of any open foodbanks at 10pm. No, I sure don’t, I thought. I did know what it was like to wrap a batch of quarters and then have to decide if it was for the milk and bread or the water bill. She asked for a couple bucks so she could go into the save-a-lot just behind us. I handed her a 5, and seeing her come out with 3 bags of food on my $5 was a defining moment for me. I tend to think so big than get overwhelmed with how much I want to help that I freeze up and don’t know where to start.That moment, however, helped me finally understand what it meant to give from what we have first, and that it truly doesn’t have to be much to make a huge impact on someone’s life. Thank God for that because my heart has always been much bigger than my wallet, regardless of all of the Laws of Attraction books, tapes or workshops that in my opinion send a heart-breaking message at times that everyone is meant to be wealthy in tangible form. That is a blog post in and of itself. This one is my way of saying to the world that I most definitely see and hear those who just geneuinely need for an opportunity to just come knocking and life give them a %$#! break (excuse my symbols). If you revisit another rubiks cube known as my site as well as www.adifferentrhythm.blogspot.com, I hope the message of genuinely trying to support each other without judgement shines through more with each click of the mouse. Mastering online marketing seems so much more efficient for me than mingling at all those networking meetings.(I hated those. Sorry). I am on a borrowed laptop as we speak with a windows 98 dinosaur doing what it can (not much lol), but finally feeling inspired. Any support and especially suggestions on structuring my site would be greatly appreciated. Everything up so far has been a learn as I go version due to limited funds of my own. Send good vibes and thanks for listening!

Lucy Maruhi

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It is very exciting to know people online, through plaxo. I am an Evangelist and working with Shelter Connections and Events organizer. Helpsavetheworld website is promising. Our company gives 8% of income to the Ngei 1 DYG, a non- profitable organization based in one of the largest slams in Kenya, Nairobi. Visit Kenya, either on holiday or work , we book hotels, lodges and beach resorts accommodation. Ngei Youth group entertains you when you visit the community living in the slam. visit our website: http://www.sheltertours.com/