Spring Update!
'The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home'
What is up folks.
It had been many weeks since I picked up the pen on my “Substack Society” here and for that I apologize.
But ironically I have not really the put the pen down all Winter…more on that in a sec.
It’s the second day of Spring and as I sat down to write this I was struck by the opening scene from Wind in the Willow’s where the Mole gets fed up with his Spring cleaning and throws down the paintbrush to get outside… it’s worth reading even just the first page…
But lets take it back to last fall… where the last piece I wrote here was about building a skill to create leverage in your life amidst the ever-shifting ever more unstable economy of today.
Because that is where my focus was for the winter season…. trying to walk the walk and weather the winter by honing my skills and stacking some sales in the form copywriting clients who pay for emails and content and stuff…
I went pretty bullish on the whole thing and for a time shed some of my more philosophic sensitivities in my writing and my life in the name of not being another starving artist who is forced back to the factory (aka a regular job).
It might sounds arrogant but I have made no secret in these letters about how I feel about modern day employment and most of the systems and situations that come with it…
So yea I was able to go somewhat full time with the writing thing but as a result I found my interests slanting into the fiscal and the financial more than I care to share on this newsletter and with this audience…
Meaning it got very business oriented which was not necessarily what you all signed up for.
Anywho I never stopped writing it just sort of evolved… I even launched a copywriting newsletter that grew to a few hundred people who were interested specifically in such things…
What’s funny is more recently I feel my writing coming back around to a more human topics and a more holistic approach…. hence this update.
Ok so that’s what happened over the Winter but what about the Spring?
Well we are two days in and there are some fun things to share.
First off is the launch of my natural skin care brand The Tallowed Truth (a collection of many passions and interests distilled down in to some very tangible physical goods)
This is a passion project born out of the last 3-5 years of my journey with health, wealth, and humanity… it is the meeting of many roads and I am very excited about bringing it to be.
If you want to learn more about the brand you can see a very crude landing page here but I must warn you this is not for the faint of heart… you can expect politically incorrect emails and a lot of unfiltered commentary about where we find ourselves as humans after the past three years of craziness and the past three decades of decaying health.
Onward.
In other news I hope to be podcasting again very soon and am excited to figure out what that will look like…I’m a sucker for adding more to my plate and it feels like the right time is just around the corner so we’ll see what happens with that.
I am making some effort to condense and unify my many interests and pieces of writing/content that are now spread out across a number of different channels into a more branded body of work… and am taking a course on how to actually do this…so in the near future I may send an update about that.
I hope this email finds you all well and that you weathered the Winter in as pleasant a manner as possible.
For now this newsletter will not be any more regular than it has been but I will try to update you all when there is somewhere to point it all.
Happy spring to you.
Don’t be afraid to throw down the preverbal paint brush and get out in the sunshine whatever that may mean to you.
Always the best,
Ben
Society For A Wonder’ing Mind