Sunday Digest No. 12

Angels & Demons - Friendship - Tech Assholes - Trees

Cameron M. Bailey

Feb 02, 2025

Welcome to my latest Sunday digest where I share my writing over the past week, some of the best from others here on Substack, and beyond. I hope that you enjoy this digest, and that if you do, you’ll consider subscribing so that you never miss an issue.

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Society

Why Trump Won

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Jan 31

Why Trump Won

As a result of my previous employment with the Washington State Legislature, I often receive notice about interesting job openings in and around Washington State government.

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A Thought About Immigration

Cameron M. Bailey

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Feb 1

A Thought About Immigration

Unlike many of my friends, I am not an anti-immigration hawk. I believe that on the whole our nation greatly benefits from immigration.

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THE POWER AND THE SILENCE

I probably should have told this story before, back when the retired president of a top American bank told it to me at a picnic on his ranch. It struck me at the time as true, if only because its psychological details were so specific, eccentric, and unflattering. The reason I didn’t tell it then was that the former bank executive was powerful and I fea…

4 years ago · 646 likes · 98 comments · Walter Kirn

Airports, Wheelchairs, and Cheese Rolling Down Hills

a month ago · 33 likes · 4 comments · Sherman Alexie

A Knight, With A Pen

I wrote my most recent essay, Contemplating Death, because a number of questions about the relative values we place on Liberty and Life had been rolling through my mind over the past few weeks. Writing helps me order my own thoughts, and I was very interested to read the perspective of others as well…

a month ago · 4 likes · 3 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Saved by the Devil

What would you do if you were saved by the person you despise most in the world…

a month ago · 19 likes · 12 comments · Apollo's Lyre

Susie Bright’s Journal

Baby Queen Gambit

When she was eight years old, my daughter received her first lesson in chess from her godmother, Honey Lee…

a month ago · 15 likes · 3 comments · Susie Bright

The Black Mirror's Reflection

If your social media feed sucks, I’ll be the one to tell you the harsh truth: You made it that way…

a month ago · 19 likes · 5 comments · Alicen Grey

Tarot

Contemplating The Pillars

Looking at the Major Arcana as illustrated in the Waite-Smith Tarot we see that a number of cards portray the Pillars…

25 days ago · 5 likes · 4 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Spirituality

Angels and Demons or Dark and Light Energy?

People tend to think of angels and demons in biblical terms, the believers see them as genuine spiritual beings and the non believers see them as religious fictions…

a month ago · 20 likes · Frater Seamus

Work

The Digital Anthropologist

Remote Work’s Ancient History

Inthe cool of the Egyptian desert morning, before the unbearable heat of the day would blast down, a camel’s shadow shrouded the cave of Saint Anthony bringing a reed scroll. It had been sent by the desert mother, Great Amma Syncletica the day before. They were sharing some ideas. Collaborating. They were the Desert …

a month ago · 1 like · Giles Crouch, Ph.D. c

Friendship

Cabinet of Curiosities

The Wheelbarrow of Friendship

So much depends upon…

a month ago · 5 likes · Minna

Nature

It's Good to Be Here

Requiem for a Tree

At first I didn’t even like the tree. It blocked my view…

a month ago · 680 likes · 263 comments · Amy Stewart

Practicalities

A Sheath For Stuff

Ideas are fleeting…

a month ago · 1 like · 3 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Politics

Curation

The Starfire Codes by Demi Pietchell

🌟 What I'm Reading: 1-26-2025 🌟

The Starfire Codes produces an audience-supported publication with a stellar podcast, consciousness-expanding daily spiritual content, and well-researched articles on forbidden but crucial topics…

a month ago · 13 likes · 1 comment · The Starfire Codes

Substack

The fight for free speech in 2025 and beyond

Principles have a price. Anyone can stand up for their values when it’s popular and easy, but principles are tested when standing up has a cost…

a month ago · 709 likes · 124 comments · Chris Best

Issue 105: Why is everybody reading Middlemarch right now?

I will participate, but not as asked…

a month ago · 211 likes · 68 comments

Writing

Escaping Flatland

Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog

Untitled, Olaf Rude, 1938…

a month ago · 66 likes · 17 comments · Henrik Karlsson

Freemasonry

Robert’s Substack

The Ticket to Hell

Today, one of my brothers and a friend received a hand written letter and packet in his mail box. This is something that masons from the Southern States frequently get. Anonymous, of course, expounding a knowledge of our inner secrets an a opinion of the dastardly intentions that our fraternity supposedly operates under. I for one find it amusing. …

a month ago · 1 like · 2 comments · Robert Mullis

The other day I sat down with my trusty copy of Morals and Dogma. Not the really nice annotated version that I love to study, but a copy of the old style version, the version found throughout the Southern Jurisdiction of Scottish Rite. I prefer using it when gathering quotes for…

a month ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · Cameron M. Bailey

The State Of Freemasonry

The U.S.P.S. brought a copy of Brother Ken Stuczynski’s book, Masonic Research Lodges, Bodies, and Societies to my door…

a month ago · 8 likes · 3 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Virtual Freemasonry

Last night my Lodge debated its long-standing use of Zoom during Stated Meetings…

a month ago · 6 likes · 13 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Daily Masonic Progress

How to Increase Your Lodges Membership

I hear locally, domestically, and internationally that lodges across the globe are struggling for membership. The issues are the same everywhere, and they are not unique. We always say that everything is different: Oh, the city is different from the country. This city is different from that city. This state is different from that state. This country is …

a month ago · 2 likes · Darren Allatt

Alkemye Book Club

How To Die

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Jan 25

How To Die

Our Book Club got off to a great start in December with Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

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Thank you for my weekly digest into your home! I hope that you found much of value here. And thank you to the many wonderful writers of Substack, particularly those featured here today:

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Thank you for the kind mention! I truly appreciate that you take time to read my stuff.

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Thank you, Cameron; I’m so glad you enjoyed it. I’ll go nose around some of the other stories you’ve been reading!

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