I am sorry for this loss that is profoundly personal to you. I love your regular use of Lewis Lapham quotes as that is how I know him at all. I love the insight that history is a weapon which we use to defend the future against the past. We are doing it now!!
For my Costa Rica writers group this week, we wrote our own eulogies which got me thinking about mortality. I started with the Lorax lawyer is dead- the work I want to be remember for and of course covered my marriages and motherhood and grandmother hood and gave quotes I always say that are wise and perhaps entertaining. Even as I wrote as another person speaking about me, I ended appreciative of my friends that went before me and told the potential mourners how I am likely hanging out with them since my people need comforted.
I don’t think of myself in terms of leadership and find it a bit odd that I joined your newsletter even before Substack was invented or before newsletters were fully appreciated as a way to grow a following. You just have the messages I am meant to hear as I continue to find my ways of service. Thank you and thanks for bringing Lewis H Lapham and his wisdom, combined with yours, into our lives.
Thank you so much for those kind and generous words, Penni. Now, if you'd be interested in an issue from the Lapham's Quarterly back catalog, please let me know where I should sent it. You can simply reply by email to any of my newsletter entries.
I am sorry for this loss that is profoundly personal to you. I love your regular use of Lewis Lapham quotes as that is how I know him at all. I love the insight that history is a weapon which we use to defend the future against the past. We are doing it now!!
For my Costa Rica writers group this week, we wrote our own eulogies which got me thinking about mortality. I started with the Lorax lawyer is dead- the work I want to be remember for and of course covered my marriages and motherhood and grandmother hood and gave quotes I always say that are wise and perhaps entertaining. Even as I wrote as another person speaking about me, I ended appreciative of my friends that went before me and told the potential mourners how I am likely hanging out with them since my people need comforted.
I don’t think of myself in terms of leadership and find it a bit odd that I joined your newsletter even before Substack was invented or before newsletters were fully appreciated as a way to grow a following. You just have the messages I am meant to hear as I continue to find my ways of service. Thank you and thanks for bringing Lewis H Lapham and his wisdom, combined with yours, into our lives.
Thank you so much for those kind and generous words, Penni. Now, if you'd be interested in an issue from the Lapham's Quarterly back catalog, please let me know where I should sent it. You can simply reply by email to any of my newsletter entries.