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Jun 20, 2023Liked by Jeannine Ouellette

Wonderful Jeannine. So deeply true and helpful. 🙏

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Absolutely loved this, I sent it to an artist friend whom I recognised in your words.

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This is brilliant Jeannine and just what I needed, if it is ordinary, it is ordinary in the way we all need. Thanks for this gift and the reminder that my writing is a gift to myself before it is anything else and if it is only that it is enough.

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This was the most helpful and precise bit of encouragement I’ve read on getting creatively unstuck in some time. You nailed it. Thank you so much—spoke directly to me.

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Amazing. Thank you so very much for sharing that, Maggie! I am thrilled!

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Oh dear... how lovely @Jeannine Ouellette... "to make visible to the whole entire world your “call to creative work,” which is usually kept hidden in a very tender and vulnerable spot deep in the recesses of your heart, is revolutionary and, therefore, extraordinary, no matter what that work ultimately becomes or not in terms of its so-called importance."

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Thank you so much for reading and sharing your thoughts; I appreciate it so much (because of course regardless of my peace-making with ordinariness I still, as do we all, want to matter)!

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You-re welcome! I enjoy your writing and insights! I'm sure your writing, and all that it stems from and gives itself to, does indeed matter very much!

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Jun 24, 2023Liked by Jeannine Ouellette

That sentence stuck with me, as well. In fact, it caught in my throat as I read it. Tender and vulnerable...yes, yes, yes.

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Thank you so much. Yes ... yes, yes.

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Janice, YAY, that just makes my day that you found this helpful. Thank you for taking the time to let me know--what a lovely feeling!

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