Dear Reader,
It will be six years in January, at the beginning of COVID’s pandemic, that I began the challenging privilege of curating quotes for Wordgrove’s Post & Review. I have reveled in the challenge, and revere the privilege still; but a series of misadventures during recent travels now force a change of direction for the Post & Review.

Despite recent glitches in making the transition, I have served my apprenticeship to online publishing. Now I must approach you as one worthy of your support, and ask for something in return. Of a necessity, the full Post & Review now becomes available as a subscription for the annual fee of $13 USD.

Why $13? Because, 13 is the number of months in a lunar year; because, it is a wedded linking of 7 and 6 (God and man), or of something unlucky being turned to good use, perhaps, because of simple whimsy ‒ whatever works for you. Also, the amount seemed accessible to anyone interested in the weaving of quotes into new perspectives.

Larger donations are being accepted merely to enable the warm, spreading glow that kindness and generosity bring — and that you might feel it more abundantly.

Past issues of the Post & Review will remain free, and available in their entirety, at this site address. Future issues will continue with the opening Quoted In The Grove quartet, the following section of triads, and the closing olio of coupled quotes. These will be some of the most varied and entertaining quotes of the newsletter, and may suffice for you.

If you want it all, the modest charge, now in effect, will open doors for you into the colorful worlds of politics and the arts. You will gain access to varied views on love, business, sports, and religion. The sacred halls of science and education, family and friends, comedy and death, are also in the mix.

Passages of elastic, eye-widening, truth; phrasings of surpassing beauty; moments of surprised laughter: these become yours. You will be provided opportunities to meet with provocative thinkers, to encounter sterling minds connecting across the years on universal subjects, to explore world-wide, word-specific topics… beautifully, memorably.

Those quoted in the Post & Review do reach their different conclusions (passionately, at times), but always in character with the broad, human condition. You may view the current edition of Wordgrove’s Post & Review before deciding… or check out the images below that are to be made active in time for next week’s issue. It is the season, and you’d be giving, and gifting yourself, something worthwhile… tax-wise, for that warm, spreading glow.

Subscribers are encouraged to share, and rearrange quotes to suit their interest. Subscribed readers are invited to comment specifically, and to request a reply. You are especially encouraged to add quotes of your own to the conversation. As before, members of club Wordgrove in There, will continue receiving full-edition links.

If length requires, future editions may feature a two page format.

Hoping to hear from you, I remain
Gratefully yours,
Dan Jack / BarTalk of Wordgrove
Collector, collator, curator of quotes

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Following, a tissue-thin, verifiably unsolicited, out of the sky-blue, maybe true, endorsement:

Wordgrove’s Post & Review seems to me a conversation between the ages. Using theme words to act as both prompt and blackboard, your Post & Review threads a fine necklace, stringing the bright gems and assorted jewels of human thought, into a compelling dialog using quotes. The fun has been encountering all the different lives a single word gets to live, and the jobs they daily go to. You’ve made it interesting. Bravo!
~U Ben Bullshot