Today is one of those occasions when I am here to ask if you might support this work further through a subscription, and/or a one-off or recurring donation.
As I write this post, Silentium has 2,401 total subscribers. Of those 2,401, 116 of you are paid subscribers, and 4 of you are founding subscribers, making a significant annual subscription that makes a real difference here.
Founding, paid, or unpaid, I’m glad you found your way here, and that you find a resonance here that calls you to stay around. I’m thankful to those of you who share these posts with your own friends and families too, and the lovely messages I receive.
I also appreciate greatly those of you who also support this work through your kind founding subscriptions, donations and recurring donations.
I see this as a community, not a platform for myself — we are companions on the way.
Currently, I have rising overheads that I am unable to fully cover. Rent, council tax, internet service, maintenance of equipment, software, and other resources I use to create content here and elsewhere. Light, energy, heating, nutrition, and clothing. Time to spend quietly in retreat away from home too. All of these nourish my work here, in the most practical of ways.
All of these enable me to serve the contemplative community that gathers here with these nourishing invitations to silence, that I share here almost daily.
You may also consider making a simple recurring donation towards these outgoings, that enable this work to continue without the financial challenges it brings at present.
A subscriber (aware of the challenges of publishing Silentium) suggested recently that if the 2,401 subscribers here today were to make a monthly recurring donation of even just £1 per month, Silentium could be in a far more sustainable position. To subscribe monthly, for the price of a decent coffee would be a gift and a blessing to us all.
Today, I ask you to reflect on your ability to contribute to this work. Especially if you gain benefit from what appears here for you almost daily. The value you place on it can help Silentium not only to continue, but to grow, thrive, and reach more people.
Silentium first appeared in the summer of 2019, let us all continue to support it, that it may thrive, and continue to support this growing contemplative community.
So with this in mind, I invite you to subscribe and/or donate in support of Silentium.
Thanks for reading, I’m glad you’re here.
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Further deep gratitude and welcome to Silentium's fifth founding subscriber, and to those taking their first dip in this quiet stream known as Silentium. Thank you for your support, you are making a real difference to my ability to host Silentium almost daily now, and the more of you who step forwards, the more difference it makes. Thank you to all stepping forwards today in support of this contemplative community in a quiet corner of the internet.
Deep gratitude to those of you stepping forward to offer further support to Silentium today.