Hey y’all!
Here’s what I put out on the blog this week:
- On the Other Side of Burnout – It took a few years for me to recognize that what I was experiencing was a bad case of burnout. Here’s what it looks like on the other side.
- In Praise Of Letters – I’m doing morning pages again, which has caused me to mourn my handwriting skills I have lost, and the letters that we used to all write.
- A Crowded Table – I miss long, slow, dinners.
- The Shoes – In the 4th grade, I learned I was poor.
- The Old Man and the Boy – When I was 10, my best friend died.
- The Pie That Isn’t There – In which I share with you our “secret” recipe for fudge pie.
Some stuff you might like as much as I did:
Because cost and value have no relationship whatsoever in this mixed-up world in which we live, my friend Gareth’s excellent guidebook for our times How To Not Be Afraid: Seven Ways to Live When Everything Seems Terrifying is on a deep sale at Amazon, and you can buy the hardcover for $3 and change.
My post about a crowded table is a deliberate nod to this song by the Americana super-group (that seems like such a weird phrase, but it’s true) The Highwomen, which was my most played album last year.
The door is always open
Your picture's on my wall
Everyone's a little broken
And everyone belongs
And I am so ready for that crowded table again – I need to practice some scruffy hospitality.
Don’t be afraid, friends.
I gained 9 new patrons last week, after writing about my goals as an independent writer who doesn’t want to use advertising to support my work. *Waves enthusiastically* But I get that sometimes you just connect with something I write and want to say thanks, but you don’t really want to commit to regular monthly support.
So I searched for ways for people to do that which were minimally invasive (one thing I dislike about Patreon is the friction; you have to create passwords and accounts and so on) and ended up going with the site Buy Me a Coffee.
It’s super simple: You go to this site, click on the numbers of “coffees” you want to buy me (which are in $5 increments), hit the button and a form pops up for you to enter your card info, and then you are done. I get the money sent to my account, and you go on with your life.
It’s just one more tool in this portfolio driven, post-burnout, mid-pandemic world I find myself in.
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Take care,
Hugh
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