A jovial, convivial greeting to anyone and everyone subscribing to this Substack site. You may be coming in from my having given notice on Facebook. Or you may have followed me here from my weekly columns in the Chowan Herald or the Circleville Post. No matter how you got here, you’re most welcome here!
Here are a few things that might be of help:
When you subscribe by entering your email address, you will receive in your email box every new post I write.
To read any short notes that I post, you will need to go to my Substack website and access them there. Soon, I will cross-publish these notes on Threads and BlueSky. Not Facebook (for now at least). And certainly not on that toxic waste dump otherwise known as X (formerly Twitter).
You may, if you’d like, give a paid subscription. You can do this in the Subscription section on the Substack website. I’d be most appreciative, as my present academic post may be changing do to institutional restructuring.
The subject matter of my posts is wide-ranging. They can be religious in nature. They can be cultural and literary. They can be sociological and political. They can be about gardening and nature and the environment. They can be uncategorizable.
I understand that a lot of my readers are not religious at all, or not have any interest in gardening (which is difficult for me to imagine). I will add a tag to each post to cue you in on the subject matter — so if you don’t want to hear me natter on about universalism or the Psalms or the Parables or the seed pods of false indigo, then hopefully those tags will give you proper warning.
We in for a long ride together. The road will be bumpy at times. But the sun always rises.
I’m so very thankful and happy you’re here!