I’m on a deep dive. Come with?
I travel and write for several months of the year and I’ve chosen Substack as a platform to chronicle and share that journey. Its focus is a meditation of how I write, and what I’m working on may naturally come into play. I’d love your support and honestly, your company. Writing is a solitary business.
Every month, you’ll get an essay. It might be about a person, a place, a flavour, an event; who knows? Or how the writing’s going. Some current stories, some past, some longer than others. In between the essays I’ll come up for air and float photographs and notes from where I am.
Something like this.
Or these, from a spontaneous piazza dance party in Vizzini, as the town celebrated its annual sagra della ricotta. Deafened by the beats pumping from mammoth speakers, I looked about and had one thought: yes, you’ve got moves, but who moved the cheese?
Every day I endeavour to see with fresh eyes what binds us socially, sensuously, creatively, emotionally. I look for shared geographies and histories. I travel to make my own map of the world, and I write so that I can understand it.
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