CPQ News
A New Platform and a Mini Pop-Up Shop
A Quiet Growing Place:
Hello, CPQ subscribers! We have a new platform that we will be transforming into a whole space for all things Common Place Quarterly: substack! This place will house our newsletters, our blog (which we hope to be an overflow of quality content that continues to educate, encourage, inspire, and delight our readership), digital subscriptions (in progress), and some more fun and helpful ideas we have rolling around in our heads.
The magazine is always our first thing, it will always be our quiet growing place in a digitally saturated world, but there are whole generations we will miss if we continue to stay in our hobbit hole. We are hopeful that substack will provide bridges to the community, while also maintaining the quiet growing place atmosphere that is our modus operandi.
What to expect:
We will continue to have monthly newsletters delivered to your inbox at the end of every month.*
Weekly we will be posting on the blog, but we will not send you emails to notify you. We will share our blog weekly on social media, as well as include links to any blog posts we have shared that month in the next newsletter. We’ll be here, but we don’t want to be annoying about it.
Our blog and newsletters will not be behind a paywall. It is in our hearts that this space remains free and available for all.
An Announcement:
With all that said, we wanted to let you know about our mini pop-up shop coming up!
Growth is funny business. A lot has been written about the changing of seasons from winter to spring, but it is the charred fields that catch our attention. Sometimes our springs don’t look like fields of wildflowers but a charred mess.
Yet farmers are familiar with the wise use of fire. A controlled burn of their pastures in the spring does a multitude of good things: it gets rid of unwanted brush and weeds, it allows the pastures to be more nutritious by putting important minerals back in the ground, and the new growth comes in more abundantly getting at the sunlight and moisture needed in order to grow.
So, your spring isn’t bright and beautiful yet.
CPQ, like anything else, has had its seasons. Entering into our fifth year of managing a homeschooling magazine (while homeschooling) we’ve learned how to smooth out processes, let go of things that no longer work, how important teamwork is, and —bonus—how to survive through a global pandemic. Talk about a charred mess! We can see now the proverbial shoots of green dotting the landscape. It’s thrilling. We’re grateful to our readership, and we would like to celebrate the arrival of spring (in more ways than one) by offering our first-ever pop-up shop! Our mini pop-up shop will be next week, March 20th-24th, to help us gauge interest and work out processes. Our full shop will be in May. Some products will be one-time-only, and some will be staples in our shop, but we hope they will remind you of how you’ve grown from the seed-thoughts in CPQ as you keep on keeping on in your season knowing God is familiar with the wise use of fire.
*you will be receiving a few extra emails during our pop-up shops. If you are not interested, they will be clearly labeled pop-up shops, so feel free to ignore them.
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Thank you for supporting Common Place Quarterly,
Cara, Mariah, and Sarah