Wednesday, March 18th, 2026. 10:25 PM.
What Happened to Ashley ?
When I woke up this morning after sunrise
I looked out my windows and saw Ashley’s tent.
It was located in the same spot as last night.
However, when I looked again a while later
Her tent was all gone.
And then I noticed a different tent had been erected about 30 feet to the left of where Ashley’s tent had been.
This tent was brown.
Ashley’s tent was green – with a deep sky-blue tarpaulin covering it.
And it looked larger than Ashley’s tent.
My location is about 3 football fields away.
If I didn’t have binoculars, I would not be able to make these observations.
Then, a while later, I saw a man and a woman working at that brown tent.
The woman did not look exactly like Ashley.
And the man was young and tall and large.
And there was a shopping carriage near them.
They were removing everything from the brown tent.
Then they took down the tent, too.
Then, they piled everything into and on top of the heap of the shopping carriage.
Then the man pushed the fully-loaded shopping carriage away from the area.
The woman accompanied him.
They crossed Social Street. Then they crossed Clinton Street.
They went into the shopping parking lot there; and parked the carriage next to a store.
I was now viewing all this from the hallway window. My apartment windows do not overlook this area.
My 74-year-old arms and shoulders were aching from holding the binoculars; so, I had to stop observing for a while. I returned to my apartment.
Later, I began watching again – from the hallway window. The shopping cart was gone. The woman was standing on the bank of the Blackstone River alone. She may have been waiting there. I wondered if the man she had been with was down below the bank – close to the river. I could not see him. Maybe he was erecting the brown tent there. There were some other tents down by the river. I didn’t see him – only the woman on top of the riverbank, alone. That area is very densely covered by thickets. It was difficult for me to imagine a man making a clearing there in that dense growth of bushes; and erecting a tent there where someone could sleep.
Again, that woman didn’t look exactly like Ashley, to me.
So, I don’t know what happened to Ashley.
March 19th, 2026
Early this morning, I was remembering the woman standing on the bank of the Blackstone River. And I seemed to recall something in the Holy Scriptures about a river bank; so, using the concordance at the back of the ESV Study Bible, I looked up the word river and found this: “on the bank of the river very many trees . . . . Ezk 47:7;” so, I went to the book of Ezekiel chapter 47 and found this:
“Then he led me back to the bank of the river. As I went back, I saw on the bank of the river very many trees on the one side and on the other. And he said to me, ‘This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, and enters the sea; when the water flows into the sea, the water will become fresh. And wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.” -Ezekiel 47: 6b-9 ESV Study Bible.
Ezekiel 47-48 ESV – Water Flowing from the Temple – Then he – Bible Gateway
Then I remembered something in the Book of Revelation about a river; so, I went to that book and found this:
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.” -Revelation 22: 1-3 ESV Study Bible.
Revelation 22 ESV – The River of Life – Then the angel – Bible Gateway
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