Morning Comrades!
Welcome back to your special patreon-only email of the week. I wanted to spend today on a special person, one whom I’ve never met but who se words, music, work and life has had a significant influence on mine and that is Utah Phillips.
Obviously, one has every right to ask what the point is in remembering people and their life in the context of our struggle for a better tomorrow and I find that question more than justified. Our entire socio-economic realities are entirely different to those even only one or two generations ago and their words / actions often, at least on a surface level, really seem to not bear any significance on today’s work. Every now and then a person appears whose insights and convictions are so thoroughly based on core truths and observations that they remain relevant for decades if not centuries to come. I have always found Utah Phillips to be that person for me. I first came across his work some twenty odd years ago and I’m still here. If anything, my appreciation of him has grown over the years.
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