Caitlin Aston
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I am an actor turned stage manager turned tour guide. A voracious reader and player of many cooperative board games.A writer, an ever-eager explorer of the wide and wonderful world, and an enduringly curious soul.
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Ten Years and a Day
My Grannie read Southern Living magazine. And Better Homes and Gardens. And Women’s Day. When she was finished, she would stack the periodicals in neat piles behind her orange floral sofa where they would patiently wait for me. Whenever I visited Grannie and Grampa, I took great delight in going after those magazines with a pair of scissors—collecting inspiration for my future home. Dreaming of my one-day magical garden. I collected those cutouts in a binder and, later, pasted them tenderly into the pages of a giant, cloth-bound, hard-cover notebook. By that point, I had also started collecting snippets from travel magazines and brochures (but never National Geographic, I learned from my Grampa to venerate the National Geographics), and thus I illustrated the journal of my dream life: My own home and many travel adventures. I would pull that notebook out in dark times, as a bit of hope, and for a select-few trusted confidants, as a peek into the vivid color of my inner-world.
By Caitlin Aston4 years ago in Motivation
Journeying to Green Knowe
A little boy was sitting in the corner of a railway carriage looking out at the rain, which was splashing against the windows and blotching downward in an ugly, dirty way. He was not the only person in the carriage, but the others were strangers to him. He was alone, as usual.
By Caitlin Aston5 years ago in Wander
On Rereading
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." -C.S. Lewis What a strange year it has been! It has been a year most of us have physically spent entirely at home, though, while I have been mostly in one place, I have found the time to travel very far indeed in the pages of some dearly loved and long-neglected childhood favorite books.
By Caitlin Aston5 years ago in Geeks
Why Agatha, Amelia, and Russell?
Between the end of June and August 7th, 2019, I read fourteen Agatha Christie books. I did this because it somehow seemed imprudent to read only thirteen Agatha Christie books. Exact number aside, this glut was inspired by my finally deciding to listen to a biography of that greatest of mystery writers—which I had had sitting in my Audible library for at least a year (probably longer)—and realizing as I was doing so, that I had really only read two Agatha Christies in my life thus far. This seemed a terrible oversight. I think I am well on my way to correcting it.
By Caitlin Aston5 years ago in Journal
Ivy League Insulation
Nestled among a forest of red brick in the northwest corner of Harvard Yard is a triangular flash of blue. This bright anomaly is perched above the lone door of a little square building that shelters in the midst of all the more uniform, rectangular dormitories around it. That little square building is Holden Chapel, and for almost two hundred years it sheltered a dark piece of history within its walls.
By Caitlin Aston5 years ago in FYI
