[Updated] In praise of David Ackles

Or, how one song changed my outlook completely

Prison fence, by Terry Freedman

I wrote this early in my Substack “career”, when I had hardly any subscribers. I'm minded to repost it now because Joshua Dolezal has written a goosepimple inducing article. I’ve put a link to it at the end of this. You will no doubt discern why it is relevant to this article about David Ackles.

There was a time when I had …