Miss you tons. Thanks for keeping us updated. You were brilliant to leave the US. Its like living in a strange dark clown world now full of Anxiety- the Misery Index keeps climbing, on purpose. Noone can realistically plan ahead here the future looks bizzare and honestly bleak. I live in a wonderful place with awesome creative intelligent people but nowhere feels truly safe anymore even where I live.
Even a MAGA Trump kissing high profiler is shot by supposedly a more extreme rightward 22 year old. It seems eerily like a plan to martyr a MAGA saint to create societal chaos but even that storyline is curiously twisted.
Truly it feels like psychological warfare but the sold out media won’t say those words- they used to publicly fret about such things.
Wonderful to hear from you, and all in good time! (There’s a synchronicity here for me about a big question that’s come up around work today, and it’s helping me sort out a quandary as we speak—so thank you.) Also: OMG Stanley. 🥰🤎
I have missed reading your writing and certainly look forward to more of your well thought out essays and updates. You have a great talent and I always learn something new and intriguing. I hope things work out on the home front or push you onto a more beneficial path in the long run.
There was a poignancy about this article that had me questioning a whole lot of things I believe about the publishing world and how it really works, but also how we end up in places we are meant to be with the people and creatures we are meant to meet, sometimes quite randomly. I loved the length of this article. I have just finished an article of my own, about learning to drive with my father, and am interested to hear that you, like my son, have chosen not to drive for whatever reason. (In my son's case, I think he just finds the whole road system too confusing and the amount of money that has to be spent to own and maintain a car on the road, including registration and compulsory insurance, to be too much to manage on his meagre income. I know he also has serious qualms about adding to the environmental pollution, a fact that causes me guilt every time I drive.)
I meant to write that my article was much shorter and that I appreciate the sustained effort it requires to write a much longer article like this, and pack so much information into it.
Thank you for writing even though it is difficult. Your writing means a lot to me.
Journey man, keep on going. I am an immigrant of an immigrant. I am not a Canadian (even though I was born there, I have been told over 2o years that I really ain’t) and I’m not a European even though my family is from Europe.
I’ve done the Boston gig , the Montreal gig, the Toronto and Vancouver gig, the London, Paris, Rome, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne gig and many more. It’s in the people that we live. The poverty and the privilege. “I was born in a pit of snakes… blink your eyes, I was raised on cake.”
Maddening as it is “we live to survive our paradoxes.”
You're a beautiful and inspiring man, Rhyd. Honoured to be part of the "dark druid triad" with you, even if I am in reality a normie Anglo-Catholic who just really likes nature (hidden pagan)! You deserve every success. And you are a great writer xxx
I don't know why, but I felt compelled to read this article again, not just because of your as ever beautiful writing, but also I felt a tinge of sadness about the whole article and it left me wondering what clues I missed that all is not right in your world. I feel a connection to you ever since we did the "Being Pagan" course together, along with the other members of the course. Just know that there are lots of people you have touched deeply with your words and who always want the very best for you, in whatever form that may take. Blessed be.
This is great!
Thanks so much!
Miss you tons. Thanks for keeping us updated. You were brilliant to leave the US. Its like living in a strange dark clown world now full of Anxiety- the Misery Index keeps climbing, on purpose. Noone can realistically plan ahead here the future looks bizzare and honestly bleak. I live in a wonderful place with awesome creative intelligent people but nowhere feels truly safe anymore even where I live.
Even a MAGA Trump kissing high profiler is shot by supposedly a more extreme rightward 22 year old. It seems eerily like a plan to martyr a MAGA saint to create societal chaos but even that storyline is curiously twisted.
Truly it feels like psychological warfare but the sold out media won’t say those words- they used to publicly fret about such things.
Miss you too, mate.
Glad you are writing! This was delightful to read.
Thank you!
Wonderful to hear from you, and all in good time! (There’s a synchronicity here for me about a big question that’s come up around work today, and it’s helping me sort out a quandary as we speak—so thank you.) Also: OMG Stanley. 🥰🤎
Right? Stanley is my hero.
I have missed reading your writing and certainly look forward to more of your well thought out essays and updates. You have a great talent and I always learn something new and intriguing. I hope things work out on the home front or push you onto a more beneficial path in the long run.
Thank you so much.
There was a poignancy about this article that had me questioning a whole lot of things I believe about the publishing world and how it really works, but also how we end up in places we are meant to be with the people and creatures we are meant to meet, sometimes quite randomly. I loved the length of this article. I have just finished an article of my own, about learning to drive with my father, and am interested to hear that you, like my son, have chosen not to drive for whatever reason. (In my son's case, I think he just finds the whole road system too confusing and the amount of money that has to be spent to own and maintain a car on the road, including registration and compulsory insurance, to be too much to manage on his meagre income. I know he also has serious qualms about adding to the environmental pollution, a fact that causes me guilt every time I drive.)
I meant to write that my article was much shorter and that I appreciate the sustained effort it requires to write a much longer article like this, and pack so much information into it.
Thank you Nina
Thank you for writing even though it is difficult. Your writing means a lot to me.
Journey man, keep on going. I am an immigrant of an immigrant. I am not a Canadian (even though I was born there, I have been told over 2o years that I really ain’t) and I’m not a European even though my family is from Europe.
I’ve done the Boston gig , the Montreal gig, the Toronto and Vancouver gig, the London, Paris, Rome, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne gig and many more. It’s in the people that we live. The poverty and the privilege. “I was born in a pit of snakes… blink your eyes, I was raised on cake.”
Maddening as it is “we live to survive our paradoxes.”
Love to you man. Seems like everywhere I look, things are in motion.....
Missed you, Rhyd!
You're a beautiful and inspiring man, Rhyd. Honoured to be part of the "dark druid triad" with you, even if I am in reality a normie Anglo-Catholic who just really likes nature (hidden pagan)! You deserve every success. And you are a great writer xxx
Missed you and glad you are still writing. ❤️
Wonderful post!
I too have experienced the universe working to help me through people I need to have around me.
Thanks for mirroring.
I don't know why, but I felt compelled to read this article again, not just because of your as ever beautiful writing, but also I felt a tinge of sadness about the whole article and it left me wondering what clues I missed that all is not right in your world. I feel a connection to you ever since we did the "Being Pagan" course together, along with the other members of the course. Just know that there are lots of people you have touched deeply with your words and who always want the very best for you, in whatever form that may take. Blessed be.