This was a really great interview. What you say about community here, about discovering and not just wanting to be discovered and engagement and generosity of attention is truth. And isn’t it lovely that it’s reflective of the way to generate abundance and relationship in life in general? I suppose it’s how we know they’re/we’re onto a good thing.
Thank you, Holly. It really has been one of the main reasons spending time on this space has felt so pleasant so far. As the popularity rises & more folks come here in hopes of becoming popular, the tides shall inevitably ebb and flow, but these are the types of dialogues that won't disappear for a while yet! Thanks for engaging
This is awesome and encouraging and a great explanation of Substack and the most successful and fulfilling way to write. If your friends and family don't really understand you, there are always other nonconforming folks who do, might or maybe don't but will give you a listen or have a look at your work. And your explanation of how social media works and how some people are and why they and traditional publishing are so difficult is spot on. Feeling fulfilled and helping others in some small way towards feeling fulfilled is really the only actually pretty much whole point of life whether you believe in God or the goddess, Durga or you're an existentialist who doesn't think there's a point in doing anything but you might as well do something for a time pass. Somehow find some sort of meaning to something that will somehow compel you to do something that might offer some tiny bit of unvulgar satisfaction.
Fulfilment, indeed. I'm always oscillating between existentialism & something resembling psychedelic spirituality to the extent that the meaning is everywhere, a latent energy waiting to be defined. It really all comes back to the quiet room and the spacious desk. That's where I want to be most in the day-to-day, the proverbial house on the hill.
Meaning is everywhere. Psychedelic spirituality. Hmm. That reminds me of the Beatles and Sgt. Pepper and their trip to India. I don't know if Sgt. Pepper was before or after their trip. I know they discovered the sitar. Listening to a very well played sitar one finds meaning in everything especially if heard for the entire song. It can be saddest of all instruments and the happiest as well (just like us human instruments of the human soul and spirit). And the proverbial house on the hill reminds me of Beatles fool on the hill. Which reminds me of the Fool in Shakespeare's King Lear, the only sane one in the lot or on the lot no matter the whole lot of what was going on in that play. So your finding your own place, the quiet room and spacious desk from which vantage point you can figure out the world. Not a bad place to be at all. Where the writer lives.
This was a really great interview. What you say about community here, about discovering and not just wanting to be discovered and engagement and generosity of attention is truth. And isn’t it lovely that it’s reflective of the way to generate abundance and relationship in life in general? I suppose it’s how we know they’re/we’re onto a good thing.
Thank you, Holly. It really has been one of the main reasons spending time on this space has felt so pleasant so far. As the popularity rises & more folks come here in hopes of becoming popular, the tides shall inevitably ebb and flow, but these are the types of dialogues that won't disappear for a while yet! Thanks for engaging
This is awesome and encouraging and a great explanation of Substack and the most successful and fulfilling way to write. If your friends and family don't really understand you, there are always other nonconforming folks who do, might or maybe don't but will give you a listen or have a look at your work. And your explanation of how social media works and how some people are and why they and traditional publishing are so difficult is spot on. Feeling fulfilled and helping others in some small way towards feeling fulfilled is really the only actually pretty much whole point of life whether you believe in God or the goddess, Durga or you're an existentialist who doesn't think there's a point in doing anything but you might as well do something for a time pass. Somehow find some sort of meaning to something that will somehow compel you to do something that might offer some tiny bit of unvulgar satisfaction.
Fulfilment, indeed. I'm always oscillating between existentialism & something resembling psychedelic spirituality to the extent that the meaning is everywhere, a latent energy waiting to be defined. It really all comes back to the quiet room and the spacious desk. That's where I want to be most in the day-to-day, the proverbial house on the hill.
Meaning is everywhere. Psychedelic spirituality. Hmm. That reminds me of the Beatles and Sgt. Pepper and their trip to India. I don't know if Sgt. Pepper was before or after their trip. I know they discovered the sitar. Listening to a very well played sitar one finds meaning in everything especially if heard for the entire song. It can be saddest of all instruments and the happiest as well (just like us human instruments of the human soul and spirit). And the proverbial house on the hill reminds me of Beatles fool on the hill. Which reminds me of the Fool in Shakespeare's King Lear, the only sane one in the lot or on the lot no matter the whole lot of what was going on in that play. So your finding your own place, the quiet room and spacious desk from which vantage point you can figure out the world. Not a bad place to be at all. Where the writer lives.