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His young daughter, Katie Belle, came running in and said, “Daddy’s having a fight with his heart.” It wasn’t the first time, but this one was physical and cost Townes Van Zandt his life. The singer-songwriter, whose dark and illuminating lyrics walked with the limp of a self-destructive lifestyle, died Jan. 1, 1997, at his home near Nashville. The writer of such country hits as “Pancho and Lefty” (Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson) and “If I Needed You” (Emmylou Harris and Don Williams) was 52.

Tucker Carlson just published a new episode of his show in which he reviews the death of George Floyd on Memorial Day 2020, for which former Minneapolis PD officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and sentenced to forty years in prison. A recent lawsuit, incidental to Floyd and Chauvin, unveiled sworn deposition excerpts from a conversation with County Medical Examiner Andrew Baker, indicating that Floyd's passing was not due to asphyxiation or strangulation.

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I want to make this 100% clear. I don’t know Tracy Chapman. I don’t even know people who know Tracy Chapman… at least as far as I know. I mean, I do know people who have been around Tracy Chapman, but they don’t claim to know her, if you know what I mean. I mean it is possible that I do know people who really know her, but maybe being Tracy Chapman’s friend is about knowing that you don’t go around talking about being Tracy Chapman’s friend.

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Hello everyone! If you celebrated Mother’s Day last weekend, I hope it was full of love and hugs for the people who have one of the hardest careers ever. Thank you for all the warm responses to the post about my mom. We’re leaving for an overseas trip this week so I’ve been rushing to finish projects. That’s why this dispatch is a little tardy. So quick notes for your spring garden!

I’ve written in the first posts here at Substack that my weekly posts will turn on a traditional or ‘Perennialist’ view of classic and contemporary story-telling. The plan is to explore the work of J. K. Rowling and other Greats in light of their allegorical content, structure, and symbolism, explorations and explanations that I think are best facilitated through the critical lens of the Perennialist school. Symbolism is at the heart of this, so today’s post is from a draft chapter of my PhD thesis on just this subject.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army has had to face not only the hardened opposition from the regular armed forces, but also a substantial partisan and underground resistance movement, within the occupied territories. The BBC has gained exclusive access to a resistance group operating in and around Kyiv. Partisans and underground groups played a significant role in forcing the Russian army to retreat at the beginning of April, abandoning their attempts to take the Ukrainian capital.

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