So hello everybody. I'm here with Deakin Nicholas Kotar. Those of you follow my channel have seen him here before. We did an interview talking about toking and storytelling and Deacon Nicholas is just finishing up his series of books on Ravenson. So we'll talk a little bit about that, but we'll mostly talk about the situation right now. He wrote a great article for the Symbolic World blog

on the question of vaccines and fairy tales

and the importance of meaning.

And so we'll talk about that, our current situation,

and see how that leads us also to always talk about storytelling

because we can't avoid that.

Music can't avoid that. This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

First off, I want to congratulate you on finishing your series of Ravenson.

Maybe you can give us a little, a little tidbit of how that experience has been, and then we can jump into the question of vaccines and fairy tales.

Well, it's been a really brolo coaster for me. I mean, not only because of all of the, you know,

emotional fallout as a result of coronavirus and everything, we're pretty isolated where we are

upstate New York. So it's not touching us too much, but still, you know, there's always the attraction of social media and things that tend to worry you. But it's not

just that. It's also finishing a book series that I've been writing for 13 years on and off. And

it turns out that's a much more emotional and almost traumatic experience that I expected,

because these characters have

become such a part of me. And of course, they come out of who I am. And every single one of them

is carrying some tiny aspect of my personality. Yeah. As I was, and I had to kill a few of them off.

And, you know, there was one that I killed off the next morning. I was like, I can't work today.

I'm in mourning. I'm in mourning for my character. That's awesome. It's true. But yeah, it's been a great, it's been a great experience.

And it's just the beginning. I'm now really in a good rhythm and I anticipate at least two or three

one books coming out this year. That's awesome. Yeah, I've been excited to see you how productive

you've been despite the coronavirus. And I've been excited to see you how productive you've been despite the coronavirus.

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