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Susie, I have been offline for a little while and what a treasure to come back this week to your 100th post, this one, especially resonant, what with all the inner machinations with each "Submit." Thank you for your every word you've given to us, and thank you for including me here. Congratulations!

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Congrats, Susie! A wonderful milestone. We must have started around the same time, because I am approaching the 100, too. Hard to believe.

Love the quote and approach you shared.

Sorry I'm a bit behind on reading, of late. Things seem to be swamping around here.

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Congratulations Susie! I'm pretty confident by now that you know just how much I love reading your posts (even if lately I've barely been here). I have yet to find a single post I do not enjoy it, when the topic is a tough one, appreciate. The way you weave together your words and images and thoughts is exemplary, and a beacon to many - to say I'm grateful I met you here, to say how much I get from reading, seems like too small a thing to say thank you, but thank you nevertheless. Here's to the next hundred! (And thank you, too, for mentioning me and my work, I am so very grateful.) I hope summer is treating you well? I'm looking forward to back-to-school season, as I always seem to work well at this time of year, although I am still a bit shell shocked that Ailsa will literally be going to school. How did that happen so fast?! Happy August to you and yours!

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Oh, Susie, what a truly beautiful celebration. I feel the same about the send button and about how integral a part of my life this intricate communication between readers and writers is here. Congratulations and thank you, thank you for sharing.

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Thank you Holly, do you think that send button will ever not hold an element of doubt? And if that self questioning disappears we will still write with such attention to the days of our lives? I was thinking about this since writing this letter... in the end I think the trembling forces us to only give our very best to our readers!

So here's to trembles and a beautiful gossamer web of friendship that grows by the day because of them.. 💫x

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Yeah, I tend to think the same. I think it relates to how much better it is to wonder than to know, to be curious than to be certain. Only stagnation can come when we stop questioning.

And oh, yes, this beautiful gossamer web of friendship. May it ever grow. 🥰

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Exactly, the excitement is in the discovery, not the knowing!

I hope your day is filled with curiosities Holly and new strands that gorgeous web! 🥰

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Aug 11Liked by Susie Mawhinney

Congratulations Susie on that huge milestone. 🤩 🥳 I am so glad that you did "just hit the button!" I know well how scary it is! Every post you send is filled with such a celebration of nature's beauty and fragility. Your photos are glorious, ethereal.

Thank you Susie for sharing your journey and for supporting me on mine. xx ❤️

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Thanks heaps Jo, here's to many more tremblings over future posting from us both!

I am so so happy to have found your here in this magical square space of the internet, what a fabulous web we are building!

With love and sun kissed hugs to you 💛xxx

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Aug 11Liked by Susie Mawhinney

Thank you for continuing to share and inspire us with your words and pictures!

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My warmest thanks John, for sharing a little of your time with me here on my hill, for being part of this wonderful gossamer web that continues to grow here... 🙏🏼

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What a great milestone! Maybe now you can relax when hitting the "send" button.

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Thanks so much Betty, I'm not sure the trembling finger will ever truly relax when hitting that send button! It doesn't tremble as violently or for as long though... maybe after the next century of posts? 🤞🏽xx

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Dearest Susie, thank you for the gift of your writing, for 100 letters imbued with little pieces of your soul, capturing moments of beauty and joy and sadness and sharing those with us. Quiet congratulations for your quiet celebration ✨💛

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Sweetest thanks dear Emily, I still cannot quite believe the feelings of camaraderie and community this little square space brings when I and you and all who are part of this beautiful web of wonder share our moments - I am so often overwhelmed with emotion.

Heres to the next century of connection and love 💛xx

PS I have not forgotten your request lovely, I thought through the holidays I would have wonderful free hours to sit and write about my creative inspirations but due to the backlash of paperwork after the storm it simply hasn't been the case. If you would still like me to send you something I am hoping for two weeks from now of quieter time for me to do as I wish rather than as is necessary - so I plan, at least, to try and make a start🤞🏽

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It’s a balm to the soul isn’t it? Honestly don’t worry about the guest post, whenever you have time and feel inspired, no pressure at all 💛✨

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Oh Susie 'tis you who are the inspiration my dear! Your writing has a magic of its own which seems to come from deep inside you. Having not yet met in person I have no doubt that you are not only very creative but also sensitive and kind. I look forward to the day we meet, however in the meantime I feel privileged to be a recipient of your lovely words.

Judy

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Huge and heartfelt thanks Judy, I have no idea how you find time to write le Bulletin every week and read other peoples posts but I am so grateful that you do! Enjoy the rest of your day xx

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Aug 10Liked by Susie Mawhinney

Congratulations on reaching 100. I just wandered up your little hill and am truly enjoying reading your letters. Thank you for sharing your time with us!

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Kind thanks Diana for helping make this gossamer web we are building grow and for taking time from you precious minutes to read of my little paradisiacal hill 🌿

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Susie, congratulations, that is wonderful! Your writing is SO beautiful and I love sitting with your words in awe. So grateful for writers like you here! You inspire me. Don't stop and, more importantly, find a way to turn down the volume on that voice inside you that fears hitting the button. We need you here! XO

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I don’t think there is a higher compliment than to be told one inspires another person, my gratitude is profound Danielle, thank you from my heart for those words. I am doing my best to turn down that volume button, here’s to another century of posts - with love xx

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Aug 10Liked by Susie Mawhinney

I surely don't remember when or how I landed on you hill, but I can tell you why I keep coming here. Because of your beautiful words and the kindness that emanates from you, Susie. And I am thankful every time you hit that button. 💛

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Whichever day you landed sweet soul was a good day! A wonderful day creating another gossamer thread to this magnificent web we are building here, I am so delighted to share a tiny part of the silken threads with you 💫xx

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💛💛💛

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Aug 10Liked by Susie Mawhinney

Thank you dear soul on a hill. I write a lovely yes to your ‘letter’ to me. Thank you

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And in reply I write a lovely yes that you are part of this extraordinary web Alix - thank you for being here! x

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... and may you start again all over!

I picture your voices, these others, the sounds of leaves in distant forests, sometimes restless sometimes profound.

We can still open the book, and have that young man Keats among us with his winter-black elms among the stars, and the evening listening: 'O fret not after knowledge- I have none,

And yet the Evening listens.'

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What a wonderful milestone … thank you so much for the mention. Lovely to watch this journey unfold. Onwards, Susie

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How could I not have mentioned you Barrie! You were the catalyst to my continuing. Thank you, for endless optimism and encouragement when mine was waining. Onwards indeed!

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💛✍️💛

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Aug 10Liked by Susie Mawhinney

Congrats dear Susie! Your words are a delight 🙏

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Huge thanks dear Elske, I hope the summer is treating you gently after such sadness to begin.. much love xxx

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