Process vs Personalisation

The substack exists for me to gather up all the cuttings I leave in my wake as I walk in the world. Most of these have a lot to do with archaeology and the podcast. More of those will come as I work through a hefty reading list for the next episode. That episode will discuss women's role in the Anglo-Saxon conversion and their expansion into Western Britain.

Sometimes, though, other things occupy my thoughts. They clog up the flow of my mind. I can’t move past them until I’ve processed and expressed them somehow. Often, these cuttings have nothing to do with archaeology or the podcast, but their effect is the same. They slow down my thinking; I obsess over them to an unhealthy degree. They’ve got to get out of my brain somehow.

As I recover from a long flare-up of ulcerative colitis, four months of these thoughts have been building up in my mind. It seems like this is why I have a substack: to talk about these things, to start conversations, whether about archaeology, art, or life as …