Hello and welcome to Journal Of The Wills
Expect a mixture of essays on politics and culture - and some random commentary on whatever comes to mind. The title will change from time to time - until I figure out what works best. Right now it’s Journal Of The Wills1. I tried Embers & Ash for a while, but it was pretentious and meaningless. JOTW is a little cryptic but it’s not meaningless.
On a technical note, if you subscribe, it’s much better to read the content directly here rather than read what you get in the emails. The reason is because I am a prolific editor and a somewhat impatient writer. More often than not, what you receive via email will have been updated on my actual Substack page. Sometimes within minutes (when I spot a typo, for example) and sometimes in a succession of edits over days or even weeks.
This is a habit I really need to get out of - but perhaps Substack could meet me halfway. There should be a way to indicate that a page has been edited. Even just an update to the date like ‘Originally published on [xx/xx/xx ]: Last updated on’ [xx/xx/xx].
Anyway, thank you again for dropping by! I hope you enjoy what you read - and maybe find some food for thought.
GS
In the novelisation of Star Wars (accredited to George Lucas but actually written by Alan Dean Foster) there was an opening quote from the Journal Of The Whills. For about thirty years this reference (a rather cliched little poem) remained quite elusive and unexplained - and that’s what made it interesting to me.
