You may have noticed it’s been quiet here. Here's why:
For the past few months, I’ve been surviving a hurricane of change and loss. The hurricane has made my last two months of content quite sparse.
(TL;DR: I had some hard and interesting personal challenges, and restarted life near a boat.)
The Hurricane:
- A devastating unchosen breakup in a 10-year relationship with a woman I love dearly
- The drawn-out death of my father in hospice care
- A full reset of my life in a new city hundreds of miles away, where I didn’t know anyone (but now I do -- more soon)
- A new goal in personal life
Why It Was Hard to Stay Consistent Writing Valuable Content for You
From Christmas through April, after the breakup and move-out, I lived in Airbnb rooms to remain near my father’s hospice care home.
I worked when I could, and every night in random Airbnb rooms grieved all that I was losing. The woman I loved. My father. My old settled life, with a mortgage, and domestic love, and belonging.
And a great dog.
The dog -- which was hers before it was ours, so fair enough. But I loved that dog almost as much as I loved her. If you've ever had a good dog, and lost it to a breakup, you know what I mean.
So anyway, I couldn’t stick with my usual schedule of emails. I dropped off entirely.
My apologies for that.
But I've now settled in a new chosen town, hundreds of miles away from my losses and griefs and breakup.
A Long-Deferred Calling Answered
In that winter crucible of loss, something long-neglected in me became clear:
It’s time to follow a dream I’ve had since age 16, when I read Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World.
A dream I had put off for decades. Decades when I only read about circumnavigators, and had vague intentions of “someday”.
The old dream, now new and acted on:
- Learn offshore keelboat sailing, not just lake sailing
- Prepare for a circumnavigation to begin within the next 24 months
- Deepen skills of practicing universal love, unconditional courage, and adventure
So I’ve moved to live near Oriental, North Carolina, the “sailing capital of North Carolina”, near the Outer Banks.
... where there are more sailors than non-sailors, more boats than people, and everyone gets it.
I have much to learn in 24 months, and this locale is the perfect place for me to learn it all.
What’s Staying the Same -- Everything Including Growth at LuxuryIncomeFreelancing.com
Luxury Income Freelancing is staying focused: real-world, no-fluff guidance on how to earn $50 to $100+ per hour using smart copywriting and content strategy — even if you’re “too busy,” starting from scratch, or whatever your situation.
So I’m here for you as your copywriting coach and teacher. That’s not changing.
What’s Coming Next
What is changing is that I’m soon launching a new Substack for the deeper, more creative, more human and literary side of writing.
- Clear thinking and efficient inner work
- Rebuilding and reinvention after loss and grief
- Building your resilient, loving, courageous self (and business ... and if you think even the likes of William Faulkner was not intensely interested in the business of writing, read this detailed biography)
- Writing as literature, not sales copy
- Applied insights from depth psychology, ancient wisdom, and paradox
The new Substack, to be announced by the end of May, is where I’ll share what I’m learning, and link to my stories and novels and essays, and yours, as I move into an entirely new life learning ocean-going sailing.
Not just making money but making art. Making meaning. .
All that will launch before the end of May.
For Current and Future Students: Lifetime Access to Everything, Everywhere
Here's why: You get every course and every piece of content that I produce -- free for life.
Because when you buy into one of my courses ...you get them all. Everything. All courses. Across all businesses. You’ll never pay a penny more to access any course or content.
All. Free. For life.
Some of My Peers in Course Creation Call Me Dumb for That ... My Response to Them May Surprise You …
I tell them, Nah, I was a public school teacher. At heart I still am. Underpromising and overdelivering is good for students. And for business too.
Of course I have to make a living at this. But the best teachers aren’t mercenary. And what we give comes back 10x, in some form.)
More on the launch of the new Substack soon. Thanks again for sticking around.
Warmly,
David
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