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An independent resource has been established to host perspectives that, while deeply connected to and contextualized by Soulton Hall, speak from a different vantage point.

Letters from Soulton is an occasional platform for personal reflections that offer a different perspective—observations that fall outside the more official business of life at Soulton. They are a frank look at the tools and the unique ways of seeing required to steward this landscape.

Tim Ashton being interviewed by the BBC

Tim Ashton being interviewed by the BBC

The collection includes reflections on how something can be “known” and “forgotten” at once, and how a family can live inside a reality for centuries before its full presence is finally summoned.

The fisrt letter, fr example draws on the observational logic of a “Young Sherlock Holmes” and the enduring, hidden truths suggested in V for Vendetta as things that wer ehalf-remembered came to light againg.  The next of these letters explores the “unmapped path” of a dyslexic mind and the quiet strength found in inhabiting the territories that others have left behind.

[Explore Tim Ashton’s Letters from Soulton]

You can click thought to recent letters from Soulton via the table below.

Letter Title Subject Estimated Read Time
Letter: To the Bluebell The Cobalt Carpet 2 min
Letter: To the Open Gate The Shared Threshold 2 min
Letter: To William Shakespeare The Shared Ribbon 2 min
Letter: To Archaeology The Edge of the Trowel 2 min
Letter: To Dyslexia The Pattern and the Map 3 min
Letter: To The Long Memory Data, Perspective, and the Stillness 2 min