Click...I dare ya!
Click...I dare ya!
I'm hiking Italy
I'm going to walk from as far north as I can get, in the Dolomites of the Alps, to the southernmost point on Sicily, starting in September 2023!
You can join in and support:
Donate to the travel/gear fund & read more about the plan & process
Buy stuff I make:
YoniFlower leggings & clothing
Coming soon: my YouTube channel's Italy broadcasts
This initial crowdfund is for plane tickets, gear, and the northern stage's lodging. Thank you so much for chipping in where you can.
YoniFlowerCollections store, with leggings and activewear
LowKeyMad, my Etsy t-shirt and hat store
My new writing-of-all-kinds home is called "This Little Light of Mine," on Substack. New thoughts, quotes & essays for you often.
Stay tuned for the main, big crowdfund for the book The Boot by Boot on Kickstarter, launching in late August!
It took me over nine years to finish crafting The Oat Project: How I faced my fear and came of age in one wild summer.
A Phone Photography Workshop
Pandemic Lockdown, Day 1
by Jene' Jackson
I woke late today thinking it had snowed
That singular silence
Muffled and pristine
As though no one has ever been
Before me
To hear the sounds
Of the earth
Air and wind
Crystalline.
But no, sunlight dappled my bedroom's shades
Calling me to rise to
A newly silent city.
To be in the light
Quiet.
How long has it been since the Earth woke like I did?
She, too, rose late today
And wondered
At the silence.
A hundred years
since she could hear the wind without the car
The grass without the mower
The rushing water in the brook river gutters without the rushing people’s frantic calls to hurry or they'd be late.
She rose to stand in her back door
As I did
To make sure it hadn't snowed, and
Like I did,
stood very still and heard
All things green pushing themselves to the Sun
Their yearning
Magnificent and grand and
Quiet as snow.
So much of her Self
she had tamped down trampled tamed
Yoked to her people.
Her kindly brutal nurturing
Nature bled of its power to heal and grow and bring forth life itself
In a bud or the sea or me.
a
Hundred
Years since
we woke
to
this silence.
Ah, there goes the first car down my street.
I can go to the store for food now.
Maybe I'll walk.
Editing, Consulting, Speaking
Bright, tight, and beautiful. I take very few clients, but my red pen is yours for competitive rates: manuscript evaluation, developmental editing, and line editing for flow. Email me!
I've been called "a human idea popcorn popper" and have helped businesses, friends, and even strangers to overcome, shift their metaphors, and innovate. Let me help you take brainstorming in unexpected directions! Reach out!
My mission is to inspire transformation & catalyze growth for stuck seekers & organizations by changing how we see "lost time," grounded in the fact that Life Is Worth Itself (LIWI). Let's connect!
The stores, the blog, the phone photography course, the project
To have Jene' at your book club to answer questions and discuss her memoir and writing "in person" via Zoom, phone, or facetime, email her. She even has a list of discussion questions for you, gratis.
She posts often, sharing thoughts and life, and livestream events often, especially art! Join her there!
Where she posts photos of the beauty in the mundane and everyday life...even the occasional cat/s photo.
Jene' speaks about Lost Time, walking Italy from top to bottom, and both the craft of editing and writing memoir. Virtually and at select in-person events, inquire about hiring Jene' to speak, drop her an email.
SPONSORS & THANK YOUS
Check out these brilliant folks!
Said, "Do it!" on the Italy project, stellar person, artist, and educator
Hiking chum & cheerleader, go buy her art now before she gets famous!
Evelyn Steel Coaching
Women's life coach for life's "second half" and rewiring for wealth. You need her!
Colorado Springs’ only maker’s market with unique artisans, crafters, makers, and food...see me there!
Graphic designer extraordinaire, hire her for solid and inspired work.
Lots of great (often free) marketing resources
I've been in front of audiences since my first solo at age 4. For me, speaking is a co-creation with the audience, building a beautiful castle of light & connection in the space between us...magic.
Jené is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. Her memoir, The Oat Project: How I Faced My Fear and Came of Age in One Wild Summer, about how she finally sowed her wild oats, has been called “raw,” “courageous,” and “fearless.” She is working on her first novel and second big project, The Boot by Boot, which will also be a memoir to inspire.
Though known for her writing, speaking, and idea-generation, Jené is an accomplished photographer and runs two online stores, YoniFlower Collections and LowKeyMad, for which she designs all product.
By authentically and joyfully connecting with friends, strangers, and audiences, Jené is challenging the status quo, shifting how we judge “lost” time and life’s worth, and leaping off metaphorical cliffs to learn from risk, inspiring people to say, “I never thought about it that way.”
Jené was raised all over the U.S. as a preacher’s daughter before finally rebelling. She is a single mom of three, a GenXer in midlife, in menopause, has POTS, and is finally becoming who she is.
Get in Touch with Jené!
To schedule speaking, book clubs, consulting, or editing