Living on an antebellum farmstead is living in a portal:
the musk, muss and mutability of the place is a mixture of past and present - of that come and gone. A dream world where pathos run free. My bug-out place.
We here are refugees from a world set to madness.
A sanctuary where normality is a state worth pursuing.
A place where one can rest easy in the knowledge that Nature will always seek a balance.
You are invited into these hallways and portals; offered warmth and hospitality…
To be honest, everything here on the farmstead is achieved by dint of labor; including this task, starting with a 3G flip top phone and resulting in fixed wireless service and mobile data in an until recently underserved rural area.
The primary motivation lies squarely with the story; it is also about the farmstead. My mistrust of any digital footprint kept me away until Substack.com. After a couple years of chewing the cud, it came time to decide, so then…
Start with the tinder, add kindlin’ and middlins’, fire the cook stove and make the coffee; that’s where the story begins every day here, barely on the grid. The work goes on; just trying to do for the good of all.
Inputs and outputs make up the priorities here on the farm so the paywall will by necessity go into effect if this is to survive. Keep it warm and dry and with good management it should thrive - that’s my task.
It seems obvious that the Substack team chooses intensive marketing over a plea for support. Admirable. It also seems obvious the platform lives and breathes on paid subscriptions, so we have that in common.
Pragmatism is the purpose of this page, so welcome to Strange and Unusual Places where nothing is at it seems.
follow along while we tread the rocky trail of the Digital Divide…
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