Hello everyone! I’m going live on Substack today at 2 pm ET/1 pm CT - as a guest of Sarah Fay, PhD, the maestro of Substack Writers at Work.
You can join from your desktop, phone, or in the app: https://open.substack.com/live-stream/268274
Join and add it to your calendar, here: https://open.substack.com/live-stream/268274.
I hope to see you there! And if you can’t make it — I realize this is very short notice — we’ll send out the replay later.
xo Susan
Reacting to the jealousy issue. I have to admit that I have been jealous of you, Susan, and the community you have built. I have since learned to let go. What I am writing is placed in what Alfred North Whitehead would call the consequent nature of God, which is the seedbed of every future decision and action. Whether many or few or no people read my writing, it has already changed the future.
Life
//
Every drop, every breath
Every aim, every trace
Every grasp, every gap
It all gets collected
Kept, never absent
Enabling the future
From consequent nature
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And in the end
I lay myself down
Fulfilling my weave
Adding myself
Kept, never absent
Enabling the future
To consequent nature
//
Ralph Rickenbach, © 2026
So far, I love the conversation. Too bad the chat is only open to paying subscribers at Substack Writer at Work.
About more meaty stuff: sure. Bring it on.