The Ragged Optimist's Housekeeping

Don't call me, I'll call you

Thank you for subscribing to The Ragged Optimist’s newsletter. This is just a quick housekeeping email — a sorting-out of my desk before Christmas (didn’t it get here quickly?), if you will.

I’d like to include your good news in The Ragged Optimist’s newsletter. I’ve often included things you have found and sent to me, but how about - ten good things that you’re involved in, or working on, or - if that’s too much like blowing your own trumpet - that your friends are up to? Tell me what you’re doing — and before Christmas, we’ll do a Readers’ Ragged Optimist special.

Don’t phone me … as I’m in the strange liminal space that is Dover, and calls don’t seem to connect well. Message me through Substack, or email me at artistsmakers@googlemail.com - thank you.

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The next normal newsletter from The Ragged Optimist will be with you Monday — tell your friends, why don’t you?