Midsummer Connection Letter

reflections on conjuring the dream

My regular fortnightly essay will go out this Wednesday to all subscribers, as usual. This week’s is on shearing and all things sheep and wool. That will always be free to all subscribers. This is part of my livelihood and my paid subscriptions make it possible for me to keep writing. I’m adding an additional monthly Connection Letter to paid subscribers as a thank you for supporting my work.

We’ve just passed midsummer and already we feel the nights begin to draw in and a change in the weather, pushing us to assess our situation for the coming winter, for it won’t be long coming. I feel, continually, as though we are racing against the seasons, barely settling into the swing of one before the next comes knocking. Do you feel that too? Perhaps