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Enough

Sending my 2020 line sheets off to be printed today. I had some moments of hesitation during this process. I get carried away sometimes with adding, adding, adding, and then end up feeling overwhelmed. I was lucky to step away before finalizing my line sheets and while I was away I stumbled on this book by Dan Ward called the Simplcity Cycle. After reading his book, I felt this enormous calm and focus come over me and I knew exactly what I needed to do to finish my line sheets. Instead of adding more, I took things away. I cut the frivolous, the unnecessary, and the redundant ideas and stuck with a very clear vision of each collection. It came together really fast after reading this book. I’m so glad I read this before sending my papers to print, I feel really good about my decision to calrifiy and I hope that my 2020 collections reflect that.

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The kids are making old people music, I have no idea what year it is anymore. This one's straight up mid 90s Blur or Oasis (which would later on become The Hives). Good stuff.

[virginiatowncrier]

Brat Race #Election2018 #Va7 #VaPolitics #DaveBrat

Republican Dave Brat easily won reelection to Congress in 2016, fending off Democratic nominee Eileen Bedell by more than 15 percentage points. But his path to a third term in Virginia’s 7th District could prove more contentious.

Two well-funded Democrats — former CIA officer Abigail Spanberger and Marine Corps veteran and military advisor Dan Ward — are vying in a June 12 primary to oppose Brat in November. Another candidate, business owner and veteran Helen Alli, withdrew from the Democratic field and won the nomination of Virginia’s recently formed Whig party, and Joe Walton, a senior IT auditor at Virginia Commonwealth University, is running as a Libertarian.

Although Brat lost a conservative piece of Hanover County as part of a court-ordered 2016 redrawing of Virginia’s 3rd congressional district, the 7th District’s geography (stretching from Culpeper through Richmond’s western outskirts to Blackstone) still favors Republicans. Donald Trump won it in 2016 and Ed Gillespie topped Democrat Ralph Northam in the governor’s race that Northam ultimately won. Brat is unopposed in the GOP primary.

“You can’t say, ‘I’m more conservative than Dave Brat.’ It just doesn’t work,” says Richard Meagher, political science associate professor at Randolph-Macon College. A more moderate Republican would likely fare no better, he adds.

According to The Washington Post, Brat told Republican donors in a recent fundraising appeal that he expects a tough fight: “The Democrats will be out for political blood, and they will throw everything they have at me.”

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Mid-Length Printed Swim Shorts

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Dan Ward Design.

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