Sunday Digest No. 8

Substack

Jan 05, 2025

Here they are, all of my essays from the last week, and some of the very best of Substack. I hope that you enjoy this curated collection.

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Society

The Intrinsic Perspective

In 2025, blogs will be the last bastion of the Good Internet

Late last year, The Intrinsic Perspective breezed past 50,000 subscribers. Given the scale of the internet, this website is no vast peak, but for a lone author, I deem it a success. The Paris Review, a literary magazine I grew up reading, has 50,000 subscribers. Running a marathon takes about 50…

a month ago · 121 likes · 21 comments · Erik Hoel

Harshbarger Mills by Joan Spilman

Big Pete, 1887-1929

His given name was Peter John Farley, but everyone called him Big Pete. He worked at the mill, loading hundred pound sacks of grain onto wagons or flat bed trucks. In the spring of ‘29, it was wet, then icy. Big Pete took off his coat and covered the sacks with his Macintosh. He was a big man, and heavily muscled. Laughed at the cold and pounded on his …

9 months ago · 8 likes · Joan Spilman

Who, what, where am I?

Censored Poetry

The Reckoning…

a month ago · 5 likes · 1 comment · Mark Emery

Things I Like And Don't Like

Don't Like - Colloquial Meta Discourse

“America doesn’t have enough third places.” That’s either a headline you’ve probably read somewhere or a line you’ve heard in a TikTok over the last few years—and for good reason. It’s true. America has a lacking communal culture and not a lot of places for people to be together…

a month ago · 8 likes · 1 comment · David Azrael

The Honest Broker

The Parable of Anna Akhmatova

“Poets are often held in high repute in Russia and often feared by government not because of the power of poetry to move and shape souls, but because, in Russia only great poets dare speak the truth…

a month ago · 269 likes · 29 comments · Ted Gioia

Substack

Just Call Me The Free Love Hippy

Cameron M. Bailey

December 30, 2024

Recently I read an opinion here on Substack that made quite a lot of sense to me.

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Emeth

Let's Discuss Plans

Does your Lodge have any big plans for 2025…

a month ago · 6 likes · 4 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Castalia

How Substack Changed My Reading

Nicholson Baker has a nice line where he talks about how young, ambitious people read. “They can be really predatory,” he writes…

a month ago · 23 likes · 6 comments · Sam Kahn

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The Starfire Codes by Demi Pietchell

🌟 What I'm Reading: 12-29-2024 🌟

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

Spirit

The Keystone

The Birds And Squirrels

As a child I was taught to pray, Catholic style, set prayers in a set order, repeated over and over throughout a lifetime…

a month ago · 11 likes · 6 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Rune Soup

Super Hans and The Fate of Civilisation

One of the most evocative aspects of Western magic for me is that it is a ruin. A crashed spaceship. Already post-collapse…

4 months ago · 132 likes · 18 comments · Gordon

This regular Sunday digest is just one part of my work here on Substack. If you’d like to explore my work further, everything can be found, easily linked, by hitting the button below:

Alkemye

Alkemye Book Club

Frankenstein

Cameron M. Bailey

Jan 3

In January we’ll be reading, and discussing the classic work of fiction, Frankenstein!

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I hope that you enjoyed this Digest, thank you for welcoming it into your world. And a huge thank you to the great writers featured here:

Cameron M. Bailey

Sunday Digest No. 8

Substack

Society

Substack

Just Call Me The Free Love Hippy

Curation

Spirit

Alkemye Book Club

Frankenstein

Continuing Christmas

Freemasonry

2025

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