Sometimes it’s hard to love the place where you live. Which is why I’ve given myself a challenge: every day, for forty days, I’m going to find *one* thing that I love about this town. And then I’m going to write about it. You can follow my journey here:
When home doesn’t feel like Home …
Canvas, Paint, & the Stubborn, Sloppy Act of Daily Gratitude: Day One
Secret Messages in the Woods: Day Two
Highwire Acts & Sky-High Heels: Day Three
Life Really *Is* Like a Box of Chocolates … & a Giveaway: Day Four
Too Many Good Gifts to Pick Just One: Day Five
Sidewalks, Spider Silk, & the Magic of Everyday Things: Day Seven
Just a Long Trail & My Tangled Thoughts: Day Eight
Gold Leaves, Ginkgo Trees & a Stranger’s Blessing: Day Nine
Quiet Grace at My Window: Day Ten
The Undeserved Gift of Good Neighbors: Day Eleven
The Moment of Gratitude I Almost Missed: Day Twelve
An Open Road & a City of Stars: Day Fourteen
Grateful for the Perfect Cup of Joe: Day Fifteen
A Little College Nostalgia at an Off-Campus Coffeehouse: Day Sixteen
Stalking the Light in the Woods: Day Seventeen
When a Bridge is a Roadside Cathedral & There’s Water Underneath: Day Eighteen
A Greenhouse Full of Good Food & Great People: Day Nineteen
The Silver Lining That Takes My Breath Away: Day Twenty-One
Finding (& Making) Art at the Taubman: Day Twenty-Two
Small Wonders in Downtown Roanoke: Day Twenty-Three
Sharing a Grilled Cheese with the Angel of Grandin Village: Day Twenty-Four
Eden on Two Acres, by Last Light: Day Twenty-Five
The day I wrote something almost like a poem … while waiting for a hamburger: Day Twenty-Six
Week in Review: Day Twenty-Seven
A Long, Slow Breath in Old Southwest: Day Twenty-Eight
A Metaphor in the Beating of Wings: Day Twenty-Nine
Beauty in the Junkyard: Day Thirty
A Collection of Small, Beautiful Things: Day Thirty-One
A Completely Random Moment of Creative Connection: Day Thirty-Two
A Lazy Afternoon in a Roomful of Books: Day Thirty-Three
Week in Review: Day Thirty-Four
When Baking Cookies is an Act of Intentional Gratitude: Day Thirty-Five
When A Single Leaf Changes the Course of the Day: Day Thirty-Six
The Star City, Wearing White: Day Thirty-Seven
A Love Letter on Thanksgiving … Sort-of: Day Thirty-Eight
I like the things you are doing on your blog. I am compiling original quotable thoughts by contemporary writers. I have found many in your writing. Watch out on my blog today. Any thought from you will be attributed to Ashley Wilson Feller. If that is wrong, please correct before I publish.
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Thank you, Ngobesing. How beautiful. 🙂 I’m Ashley Wilson Fellers, with an “s” at the end. I can’t wait to see what you come up with. 🙂
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Thank You Ashley. You have expressed some very great thoughts. Sometimes we do not know the power of the ideas we have expressed until someone else tells us.
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Thank You Ashley. You have expressed some very great thoughts. Sometimes we do not know the power of the ideas we have expressed until someone else highlights them.
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