Shaniequa L. Washington

Revelations! I told you 😩
There is a deep internal check in with your heart, your posture, response and intentions when life continues to become this blooming onion that reveals itself in the right season, and sometimes a petal falls when least expecting it that catches you totally off guard.

I think a petal fell for the world today, that caught everybody off guard! But even in that a revealing happened!

Beyond way beyond…..
Deep in thought while sitting in this room, then off for X-rays 🩻 to be sure that what has been shared can be confirmed. ✅

Life has a way of confirming itself, no matter how you stack it, spin it, give it! Trust me what it reveals goes way beyond what we put on, and it shows what’s really in us!

Today the internet revealed the deep love and expression for a life lived well.

She’s gone. But the impact hasn’t left the hearts of people all across this world!

Footnotes….Extra context but not central to the main point.
Dolly Parton was the fourth of 12 children, raised in a one room cabin in the Smoky Mountains with no electricity and no running water. Her father Robert Lee Parton could not read or write. That was not a footnote in her story, it was the whole reason she gave.

It’s a story that was the main point to many in this world, watching your parents sacrifice, and you sacrificing yourself and making the best of an era until!

She turned that lack into a legacy.

I say it all the time…..
Life is not forsaken, once you realize that purpose finds you being what you needed for yourself for other people. That kind of impact produces, bears fruit, hope and witness to those who never thought it was possible.

She did not wait for permission, or until society deemed her to be successful enough to be received! The write up said she LAUNCHED 🚀!

Some of you are frustrated not because you don’t know what’s in you is purposeful, you’re frustrated because you won’t apply purpose! I know that space all too well! Information without application leads to frustration! LAUNCH 🚀

Dolly applied what she had and what she knew which was the “Dumb Blonde” that she was called all of most of her career was smart

Real conversations!
I found myself texting putting meet up’s on the calendar, 📅 many you did not see because why do we have to have social proof to prove we are worth the conversation, with that being said ……

Let Me Re-introducing myself.
The part we don’t talk about when we grow and evolve is this. Who we were known as is not always who we currently are. So before we go any further, let me tell you who I am no longer choosing to be.

Clark Kent did not share his kryptonite 🤔
I am no longer forcing things.
There is a maturity that comes when you finally understand the impact of trying to make happen what was simply never meant to happen. I have released my grip. What is for me will find me without me wrestling it into existence.

I need somebody to find me the person who created niche….. we did not teach it well, like most of the things we gas ⛽️ light people with 🙄

Niche….. hummmm a specialized market, a comfortable job or role suited for a person, a small hollow place in a wall, or an organism’s specific role in nature. That’s Webster but did you know they have a slang version too😩💆🏽‍♀️ Haaaaaaa, not surprised 😳
something extremely specific, obscure, or tailored to a small, in-the-know group rather than the mainstream.

In the know group! Well, I am no longer forcing things. There is a maturity that comes when you finally understand the impact of trying to make happen what was simply never meant to happen. I have released my grip. What is for me will find me without me wrestling it into existence.

You got it good, cause I don’t!
I am no longer afraid to ask for help.
I do not want to be strong all the time. I want to be human, and every human that has ever walked this earth has needed somebody. So I am asking. Freely, and without apology.

Don’t lie? Do you even recall one word?
I am no longer entertaining empty conversations. I do not need to know the tea. We all have tea. And while I am over here trying to steep somebody else’s cup, I have things of my own sitting piping hot that need my attention first.

I thought it was kind of silly too, but we do it don’t we?
I am no longer chasing trends.
Listen, I am

In real life!
Who else can feel the shift?
💯

FIELD NOTES FROM A GENERATION THAT HAD TO PAY ATTENTION

The streetlights were our alarm. When they came on, you came home. No app. No reminder. Just your mama’s voice already in your head before she ever had to say it.



We built community at Rucker Park before “community” was a buzzword. Block parties were the algorithm. Word of mouth was the reach. Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock, kept the block together if you know you know!

We walked five miles into the Village with no map, no trends to follow, just our own style, put together with what we had and how we felt. Nobody was dressing for an audience. We were just dressed. 2 strap Reeboks and Champion Sweatshirts

We ordered from the catalog and waited a month for it to come. And when it came? Baby, that was an event. We valued things because we waited for them. That’s when Woolworth, Macy’s and Tom McCann was a real thing!

We walked to the butcher. We knew his name. He knew our order. Ehhhh Toni, Italian in his own right but looked out for the block

We crossed town to get to school with no GPS, no cellphone, just cognitive thinking and paying attention. That’s what got us home safe. Not a signal. Not a device. Us. Everybody knew the meet up spot and NOBODY got left behind!

Now we’re supposed to build brands, chase algorithms, and prove ourselves in real time with the same hands that used to sew, mend, and make something out of nothing. Chyyy Bye!

Funny thing is… we were already doing the work. We were already one of a kind before it was a hashtag.

We just called it life.

Girl, you can. You always could. 🧵don’t ever forget that!

Yes last month was a blast 💥 but we can’t skip the impact of TODAY!

✅New Month
✅8th month of the year! If you know you know!
✅Black Business Month
✅My 6th Year Business Anniversary
✅My Chocolate 🍫 Drops Birthday
✅The Month where I will be using my voice and stepping into a lane I avoided way to long!

Please do not enter into this month rehearsing everything that won’t happen! There is no perfect anything! Steward what you have!

Imagine if you moved in the what if era! Two of the most powerful words in the language is faith, because what if lives in the space of what you can see and what God has already written!

I don’t regret any chapter that had to close.

Open loops in life will always have you bitter, frustrated and in your feelings, making up horrid stories that you are the only cast member on set for!

Sis close the loops on the things that keep lingering whether it’s avoided conversations, tasks, health issues, organization, financial, steps, etc.

Closed loops create mental clarity and capacity that open loops quietly steal. The more things undone, put off, ignored, skipped, robs the presence of what God is doing right now in our lives! This is when our response becomes vinegar in frustration, disappointment and overwhelm!

Listen I’m in the exceedingly and abundantly season!

WATCH YOUR MOUTH OVER HERE! I don’t want to talk about anything that does not bring life to this chapter!

DND BYEEEEEEEEEE 🎯

WALK ‼️Sis WALK INTO THIS CHAPTER LIKE GOD SENT YOU! BECAUSE HE DID!