When you Mail a Card, you answer an Eagle Call.  This is one of manys ways that "we" are Planting Seeds of Gratitude.  What "we" plant always grows.  

A service used since "2014", Helping Build Bridges Across is proud to be an Affiliate.  You can go Online or use your Phone App
**Tutorials below**or visit Eagle Call to find more ways of Answering the Call, connecting to the Work. 

The Link to check it out now:  Send Out Cards is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Select a Card for any occassion and they will Print, Put in an envelope and add postage for about $3.00.  While the convenience of that is great, my favorite part is that you add Photos, you can your own words, you can create one from scratch. 

You can add Gifts if you choose to.  You can even add Handwriting to your account. 

There are different Packages based on the number of cards that you mail, but you can also just "select" the Free Account and pay as you go for when you mail a card.

Added some tutorial videos, to provide a preview, but the Company does a Fabulous Job and they have a dynamic Customer Service team.  

The Work in #MakingGratitudeContagious is...
Planting Seeds of Gratitude
Planting Flowers while Pulling Weeds
Is "Robbing" the theif name "Regret
Is Flowers growing out of Ashes

It is beyond my doorstep, it is now, every single doorstep, to let "YOU" know that You Are Not alone and that you can come out of a Dark Room.  You can hang around until your Eagle Wings are healed and you are Ready to Fly Again.
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Send Out Cards does a great job with the videos and the How To...but for those who want a little more, below is the Tutorial of what to Expect and Video of the Phone App.  

The Phone App. Affiliate ID # 58046 **Helping Build Bridges Across

Want more Info:  Two Videos *An Account and *Connecting to the Phone App
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An Open Door "doesn't mean" you Just Walk-Through

An Open Door "shouldn't mean"...

An Open Door "shouldn't mean",  doesn't mean, that you just walk-through

It really is a very serious statement...
"For some" we just run, we just walk-through because "they", because "someone" said so.  We have a history in our Country of "just doing" and with a weighted heart, I believe some just never stopped to consider...until it was to late and there was no point of return.  

Decisions are not just for "kids" on the playground, or the high school teenagers concerned about the "click" they are associated with. **Side Note: Let's not forget what our youth looked like, that can be a gift,. when having a conversation with our youth, that conversation can come from an experience and not from judgement or with threats.  Just a side note to consider. 

This is for "You" the Adult who may have never considered "Why do I", what is "My Truth", what am I willing to live on, recognizing, being aware, being alert that "In An Instant" whatever that is, I will "die on" that truth.  Now listen; Death is a part of our journey and here at HBBA aka Helping Build Bridges Across,  I like to put it on the table because for some "we live" with no regard of others or the consequences that we may face, we choose to Do whatever we do no matter who it hurts.  We say what we want based on our personal agenda, based on our own pain and so be it.  

There are some who Speak Boldly, who Speak as a Group, who Speak with an Agenda and the reason for this post is for "you", is for "you", is for "you"  the one who may have considered that or may not be aware of that. 

You really "don't know" what you don't know.  

Some just need the power of "followers" not thinkers.  Some just need "drifters" not drivers. Some just need, when they say "Go" you just run. Let's put it on the table to just consider those words.  Let's take a pause to consider, just these words. 

Not providing Answers, this is a Perspective.
Even If I'm riding close to home, riding close to your heart,  it is still a moment to consider.  What do you allow inside? Are you a driver or a drifter?! Again, it is Your Life, your journey and let's face it, only "you" can decide.   
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​An Open Door "doesn't mean" you Just Walk-Through

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Donyale, it's called Freedom to do whatever I choose to do, remember?!...

Yes, that is very true and I'm grateful for the freedoms of "whatever we choose" to do, recognizing many countries don't live with that option. But who is driving "you"?! since we're on topic.  We can do whatever we choose, this is for those who never considered or who never consider "the consequences" attached to that "whatever" you want to. 

Allow me to share a little deeper,  I believe in Freedom, I believe in Choices but I believe it should be from having the full deck of cards on the table, so that you, that I, that we are allowed to Measure the Cost, we are allowed to decide from the full blueprint. "What is True?" and from that a decision can be made. 

At least if nothing else, with the full deck on the table, we were provided the information to decide. Whatever the decision, we had the all of the information to decide. 

​We are now a part of an "unprecendented" moment in our history that for "some" of us we will never experience this type of moment "again" in our lifetime. 

What is comfortable for you? What is important to you? What is the cost of that?

An Open Door "doesn't mean" you Just Walk-Through

We have to "Measure the Cost" of our decisions. We should consider making the decisions that "we are" willing to live with, not just by what they say. Our lives are more than a moment, we have generations to consider again "for some". 

As a woman of Faith, no matter the topic, I still weigh the cost that is best for me. If I'm not comfortable, I don't care if the whole team is running in that direction, If I'm not comfortable, If I don't have "Peace Within" I'm not moving in that direction.  Everything is not for everyone and maybe "that group" has peace about that decision, but Measuring the Cost, means I have to "Have Peace".  I have to do my diligence, I have to search my truth, my heart,  I have to "live" on the Truth that I'm willing to die on.  Just My Truth.  That is Not measured by an organization, a group, a team, a community, it is measured by my diligence, by the information I have, by my truth. 

Listen, I really get the joy of being connected with a team, a group, an organization, with  friends who you really share the same vibe with and your beliefs are similiar and you enjoy the conversation, the times together are memorable.  I get it!

An Open Door "doesn't mean" you Just Walk-Through

At some point along our life's journey, we have to consider that being connected in "one area" doesn't mean we connect in every single area.  We have to measure the cost of our decisions, of what is important to us. What is important to the lives that "we may" be responsible for.  

"No One Said Easy" and now that we know that
We choose to
Not Lose our Voice
Not Lose our Decision of What is Best For Me and for those I'm responsible for

Sadly, I know firsthand, that so many are so "torn down" emotionally that they no longer have a voice and they live off of what "they say".  My prayers, my thoughts are always with those who I personally know and observe live this way.  So I don't speak from a distance, I speak to those hearts who may have a chance to hear me.  Please now Your Why, Please Know Your Own Truth.  

An Open Door "doesn't mean" you Just Walk-Through

Whatever that is or those decisions will be...
So Be it
At least You Measured the Cost
At Least You Weighed the Cost of what is best for you

You decided and You are Willing to Live with the Decision
I respect that and so be it

An Open Door "doesn't mean" you Just Walk-Through

I promise you "many, many stories" are filled with "if only I had considered..." and "if only I had measured the cost".  

Here at Helping Build Bridges Across we don't get stuck in the "what If" but we take accountability to decide "today" , we are awaken to "we decide" 

We can't change yesterday and I don't believe in carrying that weight but I do say that how the book starts is not how the book has to end, write the pages that you can write, weigh the cost of present day.  Keep your focus and Continue Forward. 


An Open Door "doesn't mean" you Just Walk-Through
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Thank you for being here.  Thank you for joining in the work of Planting Seeds of Gratitude by answering my Eagle Call.  Please Get in where "you" fit in. 

The door is always open, we may not share the same perspective, the same belief but we start the conversation, the connection from the foundation of... 
"Love Always Wins"

I Am So Angry!

I have a list of things to be angry about and I'm sure if you considered the disappointments, the challenges, the world climate, I'm sure you have a list of your own.

I understand "firsthand" the "emotion" and I've heard numerous stories that I really do understand the "why" someone is angry. 

This share, this post does not center on the list, of why.  Like most, my choice is in the "midst" of most things, I have to continue forward, I have to make decisions, I have to continue the journey so when it's time to invest the energy into anything, I need to know the target, the mission, the intent, I need to know we are working on a solution, a plan that "creates change" that is a part of being the change.

It's so easy to gather together to gripe, to complain, to vent, to be disgusted, irritated, frustrated and angry and after we have spent this amount of "energy" what has changed?! We've all had the conversations of...we really should?!, let's do this or let's do that.  Then what happens, what is done, what is started or completed?!

So where is the Plan, where is the change, who has the Power.  Angry while felt and should be released, it should be vented in a healthy way but it comes a time that "an effort" is necessary to "Make a difference", to build on "Change" and that comes in all kinds of versions.  Effort, Energy in making a change is not measured by size, it is measured by effort, by focus, by doing "what we can do".  Again, "what we can do" and not focused on why we can't. 

I Am So Angry!

I can appreciate Anger but at some point, what is changed by it?!

I would argue that in some cases, Anger can be a distraction, while some are enraged (valid reasons or not) while some are screaming and letting their point be known, talking over others, some are allowing the anger to act out, breaking something, turning things over, fighting in some cases but what does that change?! 

I would like us to consider that Anger in some cases are just a distraction, it allows us at times to be distracted...to look, to be mesmirezed by a moment that is just a gaze, nothing happens, nothing changes. 

I Am So Angry!

I Am So Angry!

Consider, taking the Pain, the Hurt, the Anger and doing something with it .
Make the Pain Pay Dividends "by doing" something that Multiplies, that regenerates, that
is translated as "Change" that you want to see in your Community, in your neighborhood and if it needs to start in your home...be the example, do what you can do.  It's Not Just Mountains - it's Moments.  Doing what you can right in the middle of where you are. 

I Am So Angry!

Do you realize the power of One?!

Take the Anger, use that energy, to become a "doer", not Someday, right now, Today.  It can start with your conversation.  It can start with your truth by saying "I Am Angry but I decided to take my anger and to do this or that..."

I Am So Angry!!

Allows you to become alert

While "some are angry"...
Laws are passed 
Policies are changed

I Am So Angry!

Where do you spend your dollar?
As one person, do I have any power.  You absoutley do, what you learn you can share. The Power is with "your dollar".  Where do you spend it?  Have you ever considered researching information about the Corporations where you spend your dollar (Grocery chains, Food you purchase, Clothes you buy, Restaurants / Food Chains, Mobile Phone Carrier, etc) Where do you spend your dollar. Who does the large Corporatin support, what community involvement are they hands on with? What causes or charities do they support? What investment have they made in the communities or causes that surround you?!

Every dollar signifies power and you should know where you decide to spend it. 

You, I, We should Know where our dollar is spent.  Don't just get angry, "do your homework" decide who to hand your dollar over to. 


I Am So Angry!

Do you Vote?

There is Power in your vote.  No vote, no Voice
If you choose to not "cast your vote / your voice, your ballot" you made a choice "validating" candidates who you may not agree with. You have chosen to allow someone to create policies and laws that don't serve your interest. When you choose not to vote.
No Vote, No Voice

What is your Interest, Why should you vote...
Your Household
Your Family
Future Generations which your includechildren and their children's children
Your Finances
Your Opportunities in Business or Personal Investment
Your Community, Your Neighborhood is effected by you casting your vote

I Am So Angry!

From A Heart that knows "In An Instant" life changes, a bleeding heart that had to ask  "what now?!".  What can I do with this Anger, What Change "can I" become?! How can I pay back the evil that shifted my life forever?!  How can I Make Pain Pay? How Can I Make Pain Purposeful?

I Am So Angry!

"No One Said Easy" and now that we know that let's "take the anger" and the energy and do the work to start as the "power of one"

Thank you for traveling this unfamiliar path with me.  Thank you for being here.  Thank you for answering an Eagle Call, my work includes planting seeds of gratitude.  

For me, there is a Garden of Gratitude that grows and I've learned by the road behind me...The Garden will always have work to "tend to", always will require pulling weeds and planting Gratitude.  It is for me "Generations", it is for me "Making Pain Pay Dividends.  It is for me Flowers growing out of Pain, out of Ashes, it is for me Robbing the Thief Named Regret. It is for me, beyond my doorstep, it is for someone to know that is hurting that they are not alone and that they can come out of a dark room. 

You're Angry?!, I understand that...now consider this, doing something with it that "brings change"  You don't need a committee, a pep rally, a cheer team, you just need to consider the Power of One.  

Live Heart Inspired with Donyale

Today's word:  Resilience
The quote below defines "Resilience" in such a beautiful way. I love these words on this image because it speaks to how I sum up my journey.  For some, we walk through and it appears with strength and resilence and it is true for some we do but it doesn't mean we don't feel the weight, the gravity, the emotion, for some God allows the ability to verbalize the pain while walking through it.

For me, as a woman of Faith, it is the Grace of God, the Anointing that resides in my life, that when I surrender my weakness, my pain, He overrides and takes the wheel.  In my weakness God is my Strength. 

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"Just Breathe"

Thank you for joining with me Planting Seeds of Gratitude.  Thank you for joining in the work of my way of Punching Back at the Evil that kicked down my door and altered my life forever. 

"Victim is Not My Name" for me the fulfillment, the encouragement is doing the work, is planting seeds in the midst of what came to destroy my life, my sons and future generations.  The Fulfillment is choosing to get back up and to make a difference in the life of "anyone" I come across.  My healing ointment is an artist at heart, I release what is lodged on my heart, where it goes is God's Business.  My healing ointment is Encouraging because it always returns and encourages me.  My sons will know that Flowers can grow out of ashes and the best part beyond our doorstep, no one should walk alone in the midst of unimaginable pain.