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The Gift of Giving
For the past year, I have been extending appreciation messages. I sent out thirty-three letters, all themed in yellow, either containing yellow envelopes, yellow designs, yellow flowers, and/or yellow stickers.
At the end of 2023, Brad Walsh asked people to participate in a project of sending voice notes over thirty days. He runs the Empowerography Podcast Lounge, and he asked us to do this in the December. The purpose was to spread love. We had to leave a voice message telling a different person each day how much they meant to us or how much we appreciated them. We could leave more than one message per day, but we had to leave at least one. I happily participated in that.
In the last month, I mailed out letters once again. I sent another round of cards where I shared with each person who received my card why I was thinking about them, how I remembered them, or what I took away from our last interaction.
I cannot take credit for initiating any of these exercises.
A year ago, while on a trip to India, I saw a Hindu astrologer. We discussed some challenges I’ve been having and he gave me a set of instructions. One of them was to do extend kindness and to do it every Thursday for thirty-three weeks. That’s when I decided to send out the original thirty-three yellow themed cards. The color yellow was essential and I later came to…
