The winters are so long and confining that when summer finally blossoms into its full glory, there are so many distractions from “the work” and it’s all good. I just wanted to let my dear subscribers know what I’ve been up to and I thought I would share two things today. First is a screen test, if you will, that I just did by myself in my basement studio, off the cuff.
I’ve been revisiting my photo/video arsenal and I have really embraced my Canon EOS R8 with its unique set of qualities and drawbacks. I’m preparing to do a vlog, or a video podcast if you will. I’m calling it “GET IN” and you’ll find it on the top of my Substack as a section. I’m also hoping to do an author reading in the same format of the first book. It’s a ton of work and I don’t even know if it’s a good idea, but maybe after I’m dead and gone, people that know me might stumble upon it and smile, or maybe even laugh or even curse. As my founding subscriber, Alan Hamsher pointed out. We have the responsibility to act. But we can’t be responsible for the results. Speaking of Alan he wrote an amazing post on Substack notes where he recommended my book and shared that his “off-line, analog older sister loves the book and has read it three times!” I just about fell out of my chair. It is so gratifying to know that there are people out there reading and enjoying my work. I can’t even express my appreciation in words.
Jerry Garcia was once asked about the followers of his band who had been nicknamed “deadheads” and he said that there are a lot like the people that like licorice. Not many people like licorice. But those who do really like licorice. By contrast, a friend’s wife asked me, after struggling through my book over a period of months, who I was writing for? Because apparently it wasn’t for her. And I said, I was just trying to my story the best I could. I guess I was just writing for myself. After all, isn’t that what a memoir is?
God bless the people who like licorice.
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