Something New for 2025—Writing Toward My North Star
The New Author Substack for Anthony Signorelli
In response to reader requests, I have combined all my Substacks—Climate Abundant Life, Write On!, Arguments Against Books, Soul Food Poems, Tony on Business, and Lancelot’s Tears—into a single publication under my name. Your email has been added to the new list, and this will likely be the last email you will receive from this publication. The posts previously published here remain available here, but all new posts will go to the new publication. If you receive a request from Substack to validate your subscription, please do so. Later, if you want to unsubscribe, you can do that too.
Ever since I heard Joseph Campbell tell Bill Moyers that he didn’t think people were looking for the meaning of life, but rather for “the experience of the rapture of being alive,” living that experience has been my North Star. I understood immediately that such an experience meant living into all aspects of life in the deepest, most profound and energized way. Fully live the struggles as well as the joys. Engage the grief as well as the love. Put your mind to things to understand deeply, then re-engage with new perspectives. Write poetry to discover the hidden in our experiences. Attempt the sacred and insight my own psychology. All of it, as James Hillman said, to “deepen events into experiences.”
My writing emanates from that North Star. It doesn’t really matter what the subject is. The purpose is to deepen the events into experiences so as to fully embrace and live this unique opportunity we call life. I’ve done that in the publication you signed up for, and I will do it for all articles in the new publication. The topics you enjoy will still be there, but there will be much more.
Thank you for reading my work. I deeply appreciate it and hope you enjoy it in a prosperous and happy new year.