Hey there! Casual Rambler here, just wanting to thank you for reading my blog. I try to avoid marketing myself and I don’t like paywalling content. That’s why most of this website, if not all, is free. However, subscribing to my Patreon helps me keep doing it. Patrons gain exclusive early access to poetry & other creative works. Thanks again and please enjoy the rest of the site!
It all goes much slower than one would like.
That seems to be the overarching theme with this book. Moreover, it seems that all the time I want to spend doing the nitty gritty of this book interferes with my ability to be a responsible content creator, a dutiful son or even a good friend.
I know it’s not true, that I’m trying my best. And yet the time still goes so quick that I am with that creeping anxiety, the one that enters through the backdoor of my mind on tip-toes & pilfers my joy——a burglar in the night.
I did not succeed in doing everything I wanted over the weekend is what I have come to accept. But everything I did succeed in doing [has been] vital to my future steps.
Spending an afternoon with extended family, attending workshops at Bigfoot Poetry Festival & engaging in a bit of self-care on Sunday kept me functioning as the person I felt I had been pretending to be for longer than I care to admit. And sad as I was not to be there for the life moments of some pretty close friends, the time was still well-spent.
Crucially, I was also able to finish——or at least get the ball rolling [on]——something important: the cover of my first poetry collection, [Lyrics For a Song I Don’t Know].
I have yet to decide if there will be a back cover addition, but the typeface & other major format choices have already been made. The big hurdle of appearing professional has already been jumped.
I am thus pretty excited to share what I have cooked up.
Bearing in my mind that this is all still a draft, I hope everyone enjoys this sneak preview for a collection I have spent the better part of three years mulling over. Or was it ten? I can’t remember any more. All I can say is that it has taken longer than I would have otherwise preferred to reach this milestone. But we got there.
And to show my appreciation for all my patrons, I want to announce that the book will go out free to all Patreon subscribers. If you subscribe after reading this post to the $5 [“Borboletta”] tier, you will also receive a copy of Lyrics For a Song I Don’t Know.
Alright, marketing spiel done, it is time to return to our regularly scheduled programming: a new poem on the Casual Ramble Patreon as well as an upcoming poetry drop [on the blog] for July featuring the best of my written work over the past month.
As a last aside, I will be attending Oregon Country Fair from July 9-13 (Thursday-Sunday). I will be working overtime this weekend to write some new poems & have them al released up to the Friday of Fair weekend, but do not be surprised if it makes me a day or two to resume the daily posts after that weekend. (Managing a pasta & poetry stand is a lot of work.)
Thanks to every single one of my readers, your patience & commitment has been a greater blessing than you could ever know. Ramble one.
——The Casual Rambler
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