Dear THE NEW NOW Readers / #4
Thanks to all who are enjoying The New Now, Manifestos, Reinventions & Declarations on Substack.
You can find it in The Library, in Buy Indie and Nonfiction.
I appreciate your support.
Much gratitude.
More to come. Pass it on.
Onward,
Russell
(King of Manifestos)
Thank you for this wonderful mention,
and the Gratitude Mojo Community.For the rest of the year, I want to give you a glimpse of some of the Substack authors who’ve made my year more than it might have been. Last week, I mentioned
and her writings about mental health, this week I want to introduce you to
who may be the king of manifestos and actually wrote a full book dedicated to manifestos then and now.(available on amazon here.)
One of the many take aways I’ve gotten from Russell’s writings is the importance of writing our own manifestos, clarifying what we believe in and what our intentions are for this life. Russell’s manifestos tend to be long, detailed, and inspiring. Turns out I’ve been making visual versions for many years … often at this liminal time of reflecting on what has been and what lies ahead … thus the last year’s image of Intend Peace. I have started the process of thinking about my visual manifesto for 2024 and I will share it when it’s ready.
Here is a quote from Russell’s amazon page:
The New Now has arrived. We are the people we’ve been waiting for.
The New Now / Manifestos, Reinventions & Declarations / Updated & Expanded is an insightful, free-thinking, Neo-Beatnik uplifting collection of manifestos and essays about the New Now we’re living through. After a global pandemic rolled across and ravaged our land, we can more easily understand how historic and prehistoric events happened. Deeply embedded, wrongheaded, calcified cultural norms are being pushed against as never before, and we can understand how societal shifts happened in past centuries – within months, days, or hours, and when a tipping point was finally reached.
How cool to see others taking the manifesto form, and taking it new places.
Exactly, Russell! Joyce does a brilliant job of showcasing writers "doing it right" so that we can collectively learn and grow Substack smarter. The piece on manifestos, prompted by you, then we featured --it turned out inspiring Sia to create her manifesto, which you can find on the About page, here https://communicators.com/about-georgia/ Click on Sia's name at the top to get right to her manifesto.