Dear Friend,
I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be. -Joan Didion
Something I've learned in the past year: if my heart starts longing for something...God is moving pieces of my life around.
In new news, last week, we moved into a new home. We left the inn a few months earlier than expected. God is moving the pieces of my life around again. My heart is always open, in the spirit of a Thomas Merton quote the other day and it included this: And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
The image quote at the top of this letter is from the movie About Time, the best movie I saw in 2014. Imagine how many things we would do differently if we knew we had come back to this day...deliberately. Would I be so impatient in the DMV line? Would I look at my iPhone while at dinner with friends or family? Would I freak out at the pile of paperwork on my desk? It changes everything. A shift in perspective. Everything is in awe.
I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. -Annie Dillard
I am still ringing. I hope it happens over and over again....this being lifted and struck.
Ding.
Dong.
Love,
Ashley
P.S. My OCD required me to date this letter yesterday. Because I started out sending letters in 7 day increments. I am going to try to work on that this year...not having the 7 be so important. But not today. Not yet.
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