Dear Reader, I’ll keep this brief and showy.. NEXT WEEKEND I am sharing a small storytelling work-in-progress at this totally delightful music (and more)festival in Tunbridge, VT. I am excited and nervous. Family inclusive sharing will be at 3:30. Tickets to the festival on sale now HERE.

When I say work in progress, I mean it’s going to be a busy week. Here’s some things that are pinned that need sewing.

August’s artistic orbit also includes the second issue of my slow media project, HERE EVERYTHING, which hits the mail next week. You can still sign up to order a year’s subscription or just one for curiosity’s sake.

This issue I cover raspberries, freedom, and planets. These very raspberries pictured below, picked with my own blood sweat and thorn-filled hands have a starring role.

I hope to see you for a story, in your mailbox, in person for a swim, or, if I don’t see you, I’ll know that you, too, simply needed a nap, or to hang the laundry and stack wood, and go to work, and water the garden, and I’ll know we’re working side by side, making beauty, making rest, making it all happen somehow, despite being so very tired.

Please pass this note on to anyone who you know who might like to come along for the ride! I am working my way off social media permanently but like to stay in touch.

in bewilderment, exhaustion and bedazzlement,

Sophie