Dear Friend, This newsletter was dated July 10, and it's just now getting sent. The title is even more appropriate considering the last letter I wrot

       
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Dear Friend,

This newsletter was dated July 10, and it's just now getting sent. The title is even more appropriate considering the last letter I wrote was dated May 29. Seventy days have passed. SEVENTY. Maybe I should rename this my "sometimes once in a blue moon" letter. In fact we did just have a blue moon.

Where does the time go? I couldn't tell you what we did in the last 70 days right off the top of my head but I guess that's why I love Instagram so much. it's a visual diary of days:

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A few highlights:

1. I took Boo to see the "Fugitive Dam" and the whole fam damily of dams.
 
2. The Quilt from Gingercake: This couldn't have been a coincidence.
 
3. I stopped watching the news...and this is what happened.
 
4. I grew a boatload of succulents...from old succulents.
 
5. I bought Go Set a Watchman but then decided not to read it. And I picked up a few dead bugs. These two things are oddly related.
 
6. Lots of work on The House on Hospital Hill. Excavators. Pea gravel. Secondhand decor.
 
7. A new series of daily writing prompts. It has to do with writing. You can start at the beginning or on the current week. No rules.
 
I think I'll just stop there because sometimes when you have a lot to say it's better to just not say anything more at all. I made that up but it's probably true.

And where does time go? Into living.

Love,

Ashley

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The Quilt from Gingercake

You have no idea the story behind that quilt, she said.

This was not just a coincidence. How could something like this be a coincidence? It definitely wasn’t coincidence.

Click here to read the story.

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Painting on Maps

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