Greetings everyone. I want to express deep gratitude for the popularity of the interview I conducted with social worker, author, writer, farmer, and performer Stephen Jenkinson. This was a compelling conversation and though Zoom wasn’t the same as spending time with the man in person, his camera presence reminded me of my time on the farm.
I met so many wonderful and interesting people there. A couple of podcasts came out of it. If you go back through the scrolls you’ll find a solo session I did describing my time on the Orphan Wisdom farm and another one I did with Jerome Flynn. Jerome is best known in the States for his recurring role as Bronn in the hit HBO series Game of Thrones. The conversations Jerome and I started on our road trip to the farm and those during our time there were fleshed apart in a long-form podcast featured in the archives.
Much curiosity has come from my time there and from consuming Stephen’s print and media work. I have my disagreements with some of his positions, and to that many questions have formed and taken me in directions that are not dependent on anything but what I have made with the information. And though I am not sure of this, I suspect that was the point of what he was doing all along. Not to convince me but to invite me to consider.
I would like you to consider making a donation to the With Eyes Unclouded Substack platform. I will be releasing the video of my interview with Stephen in the weeks to come. Zoom like so much else in the digital economy requires more than my positions on social work and human interaction to provide me with ways to connect with folks like Stephen.
There are no hidden fees or agendas here. This request does not come with a free key chain. This request comes with the promise that every dollar you give me will go to producing whatever it is that you come back to this platform for. Maybe we connected in the past, one human to another. Perhaps my writing touches something in you that connects your own story with the ones I share. Perhaps you were mulling it over and I just won out over the litany of other things you could look at. Opportunity cost, right?
Maybe it’s this. I think we’re getting tired of seeing the same thing all the time and want to look inside other people. Figure em’ out. Because we’re curious. I do that and I try to share how that feels and shapes my physical reality in this world. I was trained to pay attention to detail. I took it to heart.
Help fund this project. Small-dollar donations and word-of-mouth advertising don’t grow Fortune 500 companies… those are what need to go. Rather, it grows community-based mindsets. Helpin’ folks out so they can help someone else out. How many times do you go out and buy a coffee because it smells good? If this work and what I am doing makes you feel something, anything that raises inside of you the curiosity that has effects on your physical reality, I am talking to you directly now. Your contribution funds work that will shepherd curiosity beyond your years and mine.