Season Three

The Next Phase for the Peasant Times-Dispatch

I am not a non-conformist modern intellectual but an indignant medieval peasant.

- Don Colacho

Change Is Afoot

Dear readers and subscribers to the Peasant Times-Dispatch,

It’s been lean times, again! You haven’t had an article since May 15th nor a podcast since May 10th. Thank you for staying with me, regardless.

The Peasant Life, and the whole peasant ideal which Hambone and I have been working on since basically the dawn of our friendship, is a complicated project. Christianity is it’s own advocate—we aren’t telling you to do something new, we aren’t even telling you what to think. We are teaching a frame of mind. And that’s hard! That’s a hard sales pitch to make. I’ve struggled with the balance, and have mostly accomplished anything at all by persistence and by a loosey-goosey definition of what it is that I write about.

But, it caught up to me. I no longer felt like I understood what this space was FOR. After a lengthy and interesting conversation with Hambone, I’ve decided to shift gears quite suddenly, on multiple fronts. I am calling this overall shift “Season Three”.

What Is Season Three?

Season Three is just a new season in the ever-evolving nature of the Peasant Times-Dispatch. There will be some changes, which I will explain next. The biggest change is in how this information will be packaged and presented to you.

You will continue to receive one monthly essay. It will involve a quote, like the epigraph to this very post, and it will be an essay talking about the quote. That’s it!

I am not trying to sell you something new. I am not trying to enrich myself. I am not trying to tell you I have all the answers. I am trying to tell you these wise folks whom I will be quoting have good ideas, I am trying to tell you the Church has answers. I am trying to tell you that your life can be simpler and less anxious if you internalize these things.

What Is Changing?

• You will continue to get monthly essays, centered around peasantly quotes.

• The monthly podcast is going away, and all prior podcast episodes will be un-paywalled. That’s right, we’re going full NPR here are the Peasant Times-Dispatch. Your paid subscription supports this project but this is stuff that I think everyone can benefit from so it doesn’t feel right to lock it behind a paywall.

• Weekly Office Hours Chats, which I began some weeks ago, will continue on THURSDAYS!

• Images in posts?? I have an idea but we’ll see how that goes.

Thank You

Thank you for being here. A newsletter, like anything in life, is a living experiment, and a constant effort to adapt and mature and try to find the perfect fit. The Peasant Life is important, and it’s important to get it right.

I am looking forward to bringing you Season Three of the Peasant Times-Dispatch.

God bless you!

-Scoot

AJPM