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I want to go to there! Thanks for the reminder to slow down, my friend. Love the pics! And now that you have a cowboy hat, you need to come to Montana.

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ON MY WAY TO YOU NOW! 🧡 thanks so much for reading x

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Please don't tease me like that!

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Unless you are serious? Are you?

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Haha one day I will be for sure! x

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I have been resisting audio forever it seems. Audiobooks, podcasts and the recent addition of the voice recording feature on various substacks for mainly stupid reasons: written words are better than those spoken (judgmental much?); my mind drifts unless I’m actually reading; old habits; getting old; change in general. This morning I decided to listen, hoping your spoken words and calming voice would give me a new perspective. It was a monumental experience! My whole attitude and outlook on life changed 😉. In the span of ten minutes, you captured moods, mindsets, unrealized truths, sense of place and the overriding need to live slowly. Stay in today.

I get this peace each summer when I return to the solitude of my old childhood farmhouse on a small island in Maine. Here is where I create. Here is where I wind down. Here is life unplanned and loose. Cheers to your left coast epiphanies!

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Oh Amie this is the highest of compliments. I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to listen and to share this feedback with me. This is the exact energy I needed going into Monday and I so appreciate you 🧡🧡 here's to staying in the today and endless summer joy and peace for us both.

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Absolutely brilliant writing and audio LD. We were all with you every step of the way and by the end of the piece, I not only wanted more, I didn't want to leave Half Moon either! Thanks so much for taking us on your trip. PS. Princess Buttercup - what a name! A cat with a personality I'm sure! ;)

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Forever grateful to have taken you on the journey with me. So so so so much love to you! 🧡🧡🧡

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Loved reading your story from this week. Really powerful and relaxing to read as well! I think it's great that we can listen to it too! How brilliant. 👏 Learning to slow down and enjoy each moment is surprisingly challenging but definitely worth the reward.

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Very challenging! But very rewarding! You are not wrong. Thank you so much for reading (or listening) 🧡🧡

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Love the photographs and honestly, ice cream flavours...it's a hard life!

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Why can't everything be this simple, you know? Hehe 🧡🧡

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What a wonderful and relaxing time. When you write about rest I feel like I got to be there with you and rest too. You’re so good at this!

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Ahhh this is so wonderful for me to read, thank you! I am so glad I got to send my restful vibes your way my friend 🧡🧡

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Agree with Susannah. Beautiful essay. A song of summer.

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Thank you so much, Cathy 🧡🧡 "a song of summer" is music to my ears (or eyes I suppose as I read it) but nonetheless I am very grateful for this comment.

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Beautiful! This read like a lullaby!

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Thank you so much for saying that. I don't think I have ever felt this relaxed in my adult life so I am glad it came through the writing 🧡

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So glad I could take you away to the ocean with me for the time you were reading 🧡🧡

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