This is B.L. Gannon, a newsletter about Miscellaneous Thoughts And Opinions.
The above sentence is what Substack automatically pasted into the body of this announcement post based on what I told them my newsletter content would be about upon signup. I didn’t have anything more specific to add at the time, so here we are… A newsletter about Miscellaneous Thoughts And Opinions.
I’m not really doing this for anyone other than myself. Although I sometimes think in the back of my mind that it would be so cool to start a weekly paid newsletter, my own blog, podcast, or all around digital media empire, I’ve matured enough over the last few years to suspect that I don’t really have the time that would necessarily have to be invested into something like that.
However, I once listened to a podcast in which a political commentator was asked how she formed her views on certain news of the day. The gist of her answer was that she never really knows what she thinks about a topic until she has written about it. According to her, it doesn’t always have to be formal or published writing. Something just needs to get down on the paper (or the screen) before she really knows what she thinks.
That will be my goal here. I think that the majority of my formative years as a student being steeped in social media usage has hindered my ability to think clearly and form a coherent argument about whatever it is that I think. So hopefully something like this will help me remedy some of that damage.
You can expect thoughts and opinions on all sorts of things here. Culture, politics, the Church, worldview, sports, work, or literally anything else. As I’ve said, it’ll just be dependent on what I’ve been thinking about…
See you soon.