Showing My Gratitude

One of the reasons I get up early in the morning with a genuine smile on my face is because of you. 

I feel the most at peace when I am dabbling into my purpose because it feels good doing the things that I do that make me come alive. Today I want to stop to focus on the positive aspects of my artistic grind.

Your support is worth all the love in the world and I am grateful for you being kind and lovely. You taking the time to veer your attention my way feels magical; almost as if I am a queen and that's more than royal in my opinion. 

Thank you for being my peaceful idyll. I appreciate you. I feed off your light. You keep my belief in my works and talent in motion. You are a treasure to me and I appreciate you 100-fold. Thank you.

New projects coming soon and I can't wait to share them with you in the near future. But for now, I am constantly updating my YouTube channel and adding more and more videos. I will admit, I have been digging the shorts and reels thing and been adding more and more of them lately. I also update my IG and FB pages regularly where I post flyers for upcoming shows, video footage from live performances and etc. If you feel led in any way, you can check them out, like, follow. Here are the links:

http://youtube.com/stephaniejeannot

http://instagram.com/jnotemusic

http://facebook.com/jnotemusic

Once again, I want to thank you for your time and for your love. May God's blessings continue to fall fresh over your loves. 

Stephanie Jeannot

Sunday Gratitude

Sundays are for extricating myself from the normalcies of life and for using the shackle-free moments to show gratitude for the things I love. Recently, I started using a daily gratitude journal. Although some days it gets pushed aside, I realize the importance of doing the internal work to make sure that you stay grounded in peace and knowledge of who you are. Being thankful for what you have is a great way to set your mindset for being joyous in life. 

I decided to write a poem to express some of the things I am grateful for. 

 

Gratitude

Sketch drawing by Stephanie Jeannot

I love granny pajamas because they are comfortable

I love a warm bubble bath with salt because it's wonderful

I love trying new recipes out because I love a good meal

I love wearing beautiful high-heeled shoes bcecause they have a sexy feel

I love conversations with people who know how to encourage me

I love a good book by a great author because they seem to inspire me

I love to write down words or phrases that seems like they are out of this world

I love trying to do something fantastic with this head full of 4C curls.

I love a good album to spin on my record player.

I love a song I can bop to that makes my spirit enliven my dancer.

I love a blank canvas that I can draw on and then later fill with metallics.

I love a vocal exercise that gives my voice improvement

I love listening to Sarah Vaughan and her wide vocal range

I love it when I can write in a book and fill up an entire page

I love the night, the sleep, the sheets, the room that I sleep in

I love my family, my talents, the ability to use them and I smile with the biggest grin

I’m grateful for every limb, sense and leveling up opportunity I have been blessed with

I am thankful for all the times God saved me when I had been sick

And I can’t thank him enough for surrounding me with his love every day

I am not perfect and yet, in spite of it all, God loved me anyway

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If you are interested in writing prompts to help to ignite the writer in you a bit more, maybe you can try my writer's prompt book entitled, "Storming the Page: Soul Aerobics." Check it out here on  https://a.co/d/frXJrnd

Thank you again for stopping by my blog! 

Happy Thanksgiving

This year seems to be traveling at the speed of sound and incredibly, I still can't get over nature's song and dance.

It feels almost as if it were yesterday when I woke up from a second of sleeping wedged into a back of a truck with the metal of my own car before me looking as if it had been cut open by a can opener. But I survived it and am so blessed to be able to say that I am still here because God kept me. Yet, there is no denying all the wonderful blessings God has provided and I am very grateful.

I subscribe to a blog which delivers articles to my email on a daily basis and I came across a gratitude challenge.  The challenge was to write down three things daily in which we are thankful for and by the end of the year, we should have about a 1000 things on our list.

I had been with writer's block for a while unable to express myself in song. But come across a gratitude challenge and the words unraveled like a petal of a rose in the springtime. The words were down, and then shortly after, the melody and music; a song of thanksgiving inspired by the thankfulness challenge that I came across and thought was very appropriate as we are coming upon Thanksgiving Day.  And here we are,  giving thanks to God,  He is definitely worthy of it. Check it out if you'd like https://soundcloud.com/stephanay-jnote/thankful-rough-mix. The song is called "Thankful"  (A raw and rough draft)!

https://soundcloud.com/stephanay-jnote/thankful-rough-mix

I am definitely thankful that you took the time to check out this post and with even more gratitude to have each and every one of you in my life.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!