My bearings—getting them

We’re gonna hop back on schedule, more or less

The Sojourn newsletter is coming back tomorrow. It’s got a 20 Days in Mariupol item, among other Oscars content. 

Hopefully you’ll have that email before too deep in the pm.

Midweek I’ll be serving up the long-awaited readers’ version of my talk with RJ Smith. I haven’t checked the numbers—aside from total number of West Coast Sojourn paid subscribers—but objectively too few people have experienced that back-and forth. 

As with the RJ Smith interview, I have a pathetic Zoom backdrop in my PDX Housing Solidarity Zoom podcasts. Let me apologize for making you look at that, but the positives still outweigh the negatives of the consumer experience—by a lot. The whole period of PDX HSP series construction was top-tier chaos. But people are super into the work.

In case you missed it, last Monday saw the introduction of a single Portland dad in Part 1. Then we discover a not-quite janky house on Tuesday, in Part 2. Part 3 was the one with the music video, and that came out on Wednesday. On Thursday I closed out the series. Already I have been in touch with someone who’s interested in redistributing their dead parent’s house.

Which is why I do that kind of journalism. Along with money. This doesn’t work without money.