Hello and welcome to the first letter in this limited series, A Fall in Time.
If you have no idea what this is about, or why you are receiving it, head to this introductory piece, or read more below.
The idea is, as this autumn/fall progresses, I shall continue to share daily updates on Substack Notes, posting text and photos and even (very bad) video. You can view each day as a diary entry, telling you what I was doing out in the woods, one fall in time, fourteen years ago.
I am drawing on my journal entries, blog posts, photographs, and also a now-obsolete and private tumblr blog I kept, back in 2012, using these alongside my memory and current thoughts, to bring you this adventure with the added value of more than a decade of hindsight. This year, 2024, I am also using the series of daily Substack Notes I shared in 2023, some simply reshared, others reworked, and others entirely rewritten. I am adding in extras here and there too, especially in the form of letters on the subject, along with bonus images.
I have a lot more subscribers and followers than I did last year, and Substack Notes (and Substack) is a much bigger place after twelve months of growth—it makes a sort of sense to share this again (and helps me with preparing my book proposal featuring this topic).
Each week, I shall send out a letter with collated words and photos from the week’s Notes, and an extra paragraph or two.
Although this particular adventure physically ended in December 2010, it continued to shape me, my beliefs, my journeys and my self, in all the years since, and this is a crucial point to be made here, at the outset of the adventure—sometimes, we need to look deeply into the past to learn who we are, and where we may perhaps go.
Without further ado, here is the first week, covering the period of the 13th of September 2010 to the 21st of September. I have copied the text and added image galleries, and each date contains a link to the original Note, if you wish to head there instead of reading this.
I suspect this email (and the others to follow) may be too long for some email clients, so you may need to open it fully to read the whole.
