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I considered starting a newsletter three years ago, spent some time figuring out what format felt natural, and sent out the first “Much Snow, Much Hay” in August 2023. In that issue, I wrote about hollyhocks — a flower unfamiliar to me before moving to Montana — yet they evoked something I could not pinpoint. While doing a painting of my mother’s childhood home, I learned my grandmother had a large hollyhock garden. I appreciate those full-circle moments that add layers of meaning to life. I did not expect this newsletter to become so meaningful to me. I simply gathered various life-threads and wove them into a cohesive show-and-tell. Yet I was delighted by hidden gems that would emerge from the weaving. I had always thought my creative interests and life’s events were separate entities, but connections were revealed as each draft progressed to the final version. It was both an exciting process and also a bit stressful: would a gem appear every time?
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