Hugh Hollowell

Hugh Hollowell

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What was, and what is to come.

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Hi friends. 

I love this week of the year, between Christmas and New Year. The pace is slow, the routine is demolished, and nobody expects very much from you. It's…

Here is your free PDF download of Food Is Love (and what to expect next)

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Last night, I uploaded the cover and manuscript for Food Is Love to Amazon's publishing arm. If all goes well (fingers crossed) it should be available for purchase by the…

Here we go again

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Happy Saturday!

My goal is to make the last Saturday of the month an update post - sort of a "this is an overview of where my head is" -…

How are you doing?

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During the height of the pandemic, I would start letters occasionally with the question, "How are you doing?"

And then I would follow it with, "Really, I mean it. How…

The Southern Institute For Peace

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Hey y’all. 

It’s August, and hotter than Satan’s armpit outside today, so I’m taking advantage of the air conditioning to bring y’all up to date on what’s going on in…

The state of things

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Hey y’all, 

It’s the 4th of July as I’m writing this. My neighborhood is having a thing later this morning (I love that I live in a neighborhood where we…

Motion vs Meditation

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Hey y’all, 

I’m taking advantage of a rainy day that canceled all my plans to write you a long-overdue update. 

In one way, it’s fitting that today is full of…

A long rambling letter about fear and diversification.

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Hey y'all,
In my hardrive are six drafts that I tried to write for today’s essay, but nothing clicked. My brain is occupied with lots of things ranging from political to economic to family matters, and it just can’t light on one thing, as my people are known to say. So, I think I’m just going to write you a letter instead. We’re past due for one anyway.

I’m doing well, all…

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NB: This is NOT the essay I promised you every Saturday morning. But the election and it's aftermath has disrupted my life and productivity, and I owe you a newsletter, and it was much easier to write, so I did that. We will return to regular programing next week. - HH

Hey y'all, 

I do not pretend to know the partisan affiliations of those who read my work. In fact, since…

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Note: This is the Member's Only newsletter that you get monthly because you support my work as a part of my membership team. Thanks for that.  It's more behind the scenes, both business and personally. I sometimes say things in this format I wouldn't put on the open internet, so I would appreciate if you kept this off the record. - HH


Hey y'all,

First, some admin: There will be…

August 2024 - members update and an announcement

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Hi y’all, 

I know I owe y’all a lot of personal updates, but I wanted to let you know about an upcoming additional perk you will get as a member of my patronage team: A free original weekly essay, sent out each Saturday morning. 

This will hopefully solve two problems for me: 

The first is that I need to write more, and if I don’t have a deadline as an incentive, it…

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Hey y’all. 

In the closing words of one of my favorite novels, Gilead, the protagonist , on his deathbed, writes these words for his young son to read after his death:

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

That’s all I’ve ever wanted: To be useful. In fact, I…

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Note: This is the Member's Only newsletter that you get monthly because you support my work as a part of my membership team. Thanks for that.  It's more behind the scenes, both business and personally. I sometimes say things in this format I wouldn't put on the open internet, so I would appreciate if you kept this one off the record. - HH

Hey y'all, 

It’s Monday morning, and I’m…