Hello, Substack Notes!

I am equal parts excited and concerned/anxious about getting started over here. Excited because people whose opinion I trust have said this might a great way to access voices and perspectives on which I rely – and share my attempts to make sense of the world; concerned/anxious because I worry about the further (re-)fracturing of the political discourse, and lately I’ve been feeling like I’m already operating over the limit of how many different platforms I can use effectively…

(Also, I am not at all certain I understand how Notes really works: Is anybody even going to see this?)

Alas, let’s give this an honest try.