I look forward each Tuesday to finding your writing in my email. I save it until I have time to really focus and process your words. As an educator, I thank you for keeping your writing true to what it is. Attention spans are dangerously small these days because of social media. Thank you for using this platform to try to expand our attention and wisdom.
It is a true pleasure to engage with your prosaic reflections and has been for lo, these many years. Please know how appreciative and edified we are. Your word not only informs us but it expands our view of what is possible. The act of considering and taking in your carefully constructed text is small effort for the inspiring gift you impart.
Hi, I have also thought about my ability to connect with longer passages however I would never think of asking you to change your wonderful work. It is me, I am aging , I am as subject to the shortened attention spans digital entertainment rewards as anyone. I don't intend to let my thinking processes dwindle. Keep writing as you always have, it is something I have loved for decades.
Rob, I've been reading you for years. I'm so glad you're still pouring out your prose. And I am SO THANKFUL that these glorious words are YOURS and not f'ing AI!!!
I love that your posts are in depth, that you allow space for nuance and context. Words can be soooo limiting, because they’re just pointers. It takes a lot of words to be precise!
I get that ppl are overwhelmed, yet I see you as someone who is helping bring forth the new world even as the old one burns. IOW, your posts are worth investing time in reading.
40 years ago, I knew you as the guy who wrote astrology for the Real Paper/City Papers/the Phoenix (RIP 😿). I can’t tell you how much it heartens me now to read your refreshingly deep posts as well as forecasts 🙏🏻
Thank you for this, Rob. It has resonance for me in a completely different line of creativity and work. It's one thing to want to offer ones insights, knowledge, and talents. It's quite another to be asked to that is a way that makes others able to engage less than needed in order for a difference to be made.
Rob, for years, I have enjoyed what you write. Comparatively speaking, your posts are long and deep. Many of us are scrolling through emails to handle urgent items, and we don't want to get caught up in anything that impedes the process of post-elimination. That's why my comments are often late. I leave your posts aside so that I can have time to return when I'm not in my "get-it-done" mode. Reading your treasures requires a different mentality, not one of cleaning up business. I understand where the complainer's coming from, as I set 3 favored substacks aside to be read and relished when my brain isn't in a rushed mode. But no one is holding a gun on us to read!
Rob~Thank goodness for your honest and loving letter! Alas…I too received similar feedback from some readers. Slashing word count after consideration of prose feels like a literary crime. Now… there’s something to be said for editing, but that’s also to a particular taste/bias. I actually experimented with shorter posts. Same subscriber count, less satisfaction. Funny how that works.
Erudite and eloquent… wisely and wittily written. Bless your starrytelling… rhyming with the songs of the ages and the music of the spheres. ✨🌞🌚🪐🌏 So thank you, Rob.
Please continue on as you have. It’s a balm for the ages. ♌️
I love long form! and your writing is ::🤌:: I have been reading your work and books since the 90s! Please carry on!
I look forward each Tuesday to finding your writing in my email. I save it until I have time to really focus and process your words. As an educator, I thank you for keeping your writing true to what it is. Attention spans are dangerously small these days because of social media. Thank you for using this platform to try to expand our attention and wisdom.
It is a true pleasure to engage with your prosaic reflections and has been for lo, these many years. Please know how appreciative and edified we are. Your word not only informs us but it expands our view of what is possible. The act of considering and taking in your carefully constructed text is small effort for the inspiring gift you impart.
I’m grateful for your resolve.
You help make our way better.
Thank you❤️🔥
Hi, I have also thought about my ability to connect with longer passages however I would never think of asking you to change your wonderful work. It is me, I am aging , I am as subject to the shortened attention spans digital entertainment rewards as anyone. I don't intend to let my thinking processes dwindle. Keep writing as you always have, it is something I have loved for decades.
I like you - and have always liked you - just the way you are ......
Your gift and craft is well received, with much appreciation. To Thine Own Self Be True
I. Read. Every. Word. I appreciate your writing - the depth and the breadth.
Rob, I've been reading you for years. I'm so glad you're still pouring out your prose. And I am SO THANKFUL that these glorious words are YOURS and not f'ing AI!!!
I love that your posts are in depth, that you allow space for nuance and context. Words can be soooo limiting, because they’re just pointers. It takes a lot of words to be precise!
I get that ppl are overwhelmed, yet I see you as someone who is helping bring forth the new world even as the old one burns. IOW, your posts are worth investing time in reading.
40 years ago, I knew you as the guy who wrote astrology for the Real Paper/City Papers/the Phoenix (RIP 😿). I can’t tell you how much it heartens me now to read your refreshingly deep posts as well as forecasts 🙏🏻
It is a meditation for me to read your beautiful writing. Please don't go brief.
Thank you for this, Rob. It has resonance for me in a completely different line of creativity and work. It's one thing to want to offer ones insights, knowledge, and talents. It's quite another to be asked to that is a way that makes others able to engage less than needed in order for a difference to be made.
Rob, for years, I have enjoyed what you write. Comparatively speaking, your posts are long and deep. Many of us are scrolling through emails to handle urgent items, and we don't want to get caught up in anything that impedes the process of post-elimination. That's why my comments are often late. I leave your posts aside so that I can have time to return when I'm not in my "get-it-done" mode. Reading your treasures requires a different mentality, not one of cleaning up business. I understand where the complainer's coming from, as I set 3 favored substacks aside to be read and relished when my brain isn't in a rushed mode. But no one is holding a gun on us to read!
Rob~Thank goodness for your honest and loving letter! Alas…I too received similar feedback from some readers. Slashing word count after consideration of prose feels like a literary crime. Now… there’s something to be said for editing, but that’s also to a particular taste/bias. I actually experimented with shorter posts. Same subscriber count, less satisfaction. Funny how that works.
Your in-depth posts inspire me immensely as a writer, human being, and a Capricorn.
...from another writer, human being, and Capricorn.
Erudite and eloquent… wisely and wittily written. Bless your starrytelling… rhyming with the songs of the ages and the music of the spheres. ✨🌞🌚🪐🌏 So thank you, Rob.