What the f… Rowe. No pitiful plot No shallow character No sleazy scenes No senseless slaughter And I still can not stop listening to your stories. Your stories are great to me
I write in a journal for my daughter. I write about her journey growing up and all of the things I don’t think anyone will tell her about me should I pass before I can. I also try to impart every moral, ethical, and philosophical idea I hold dear. I do this because I fear that from the insidious nature of my nicotine addiction, and the dangerous circumstances my job puts me into, I want her to have a piece of me that she can always carry with her. I like that that was the narrative form of this beautiful short story.
Wow! Thanks, Kevin 😃 That's an amazing and priceless keepsake that hopefully you'll both be able to share many many years from now! Glad this one hit home for you 🙏
A momentary vision, a flash of revelation, a flicker of a new perspective. Something to grasp and bring into greater focus, to internalize, incorporate and then, to grow, to expand as a living, thinking, feeling being. The phone rings, the evening news comes on, the dog barks; I cannot hold that light on the edge of my sight. It slips away and I once again live with limited vision. "Oh, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love." Thank you. A light on my path, a challenge to my complacency, a reminder that at 70, I still have a responsibility to grow.
i once experienced the world connected by multicolored lightening. Not huge crashing bolts in the sky, but silent, slender, highly fractal bolts of color. Each monochromatic brilliant flash passing or ending mere feet to yards away from me. Sometimes crossing paths, but never combining. This is only the brightest of the many experiences i've had in the unseen worlds of color. Your words more accurately describe what i've experienced than any i've ever seen 🍄 !:-)
@@RoweLit Thank You PE. Your validation is more precious to me than gold. i'm 62 and wanted to write books since i was 13. It's impossible when that short description, which could be read aloud in less than 10 seconds, took me over an hour and a half to put together in a process that is anything but linear! 😮💨🤐🙂 Oh well. It leaves me with an enormous admiration for Your Gifts. !:-) 🙏💜⚡
Thanks, Barry! It is an art 🙂 I do have an eye for a sentence that has been crafted 😉 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Btw, if you still so aspire, I do have a channel dedicated to learning fiction writing. May be worth a look 🤔
2nd time I've listened to this story. Excellent! It's a huge topic - where does inspiration come from? I'd be interested to learn where Mr Rowe found the inspiration for this original story.
The warships of the ancient world, Greek triremes for instance, had rowers that were paid. I am less certain about Roman warships, which included triremes as well as larger vessels with more rowers. The concept of galley slaves seems to have been a feature of Christian and Islamic navies.
Cheers, Andy. I'm not sure I could immediately pull a reference to support my strong guess that it varied among different navies and eras (and maybe even on the same ships). Perhaps some Greek rowers were paid, but with the ubiquity over time of the institution, some percentage over time had to be in bondage, given the nature of war itself and the fact that losers were taken as spoils. The Romans, I think, definitely did employ them in their navies. A tough life to be sure--trireme rower. Happy to not be one today!
@@RoweLit History rarely reduces to just a few ways of doing things. There are UA-cam videos of a best-guess modern trireme called the "Olympias." 170 rowers, hot and sweaty work but a way for urban poor to make a living, and something I could envision my younger self doing. Conditions not as horrific as you seem to imagine. Rowing takes some skill, and the engine of the vessel could also fulfill other tasks as well. I think there are primary sources that support my argument that Greek rowers were free men who were paid. Not sure I want to go down that rabbit-hole of searching for sources that have shaped my opinion. At one time I immersed myself in that subject, and am very much a history geek. I recommend "The History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides as good primary source history of that era. I don't remember if he mentions how rowers were paid however. I should mention that a college professor and his class inspired my interest. He claims that the Athenian democracy grew out of the rowers of Athens. I enjoy your work, thought I'd left Science Fiction behind decades ago, and then I find your stories. And I think you must have a good grasp of history that is reflected in your writing.
"Don't judge me until you've walked a mile in my shoes'', said the clown. HAHAHAHAHAhahah.....clowns. big shoes ..humorous effect .......wallking in silly shoes.uhm....I'll shut up and let the professionals get back to their work.
I am a psychiatrist. I did disability evaluations for the army for three years. I was very moved by the story. Thank you.
Thanks, Thomas, both for your comment but more for your important work! Glad you appreciated this one 🙏
What the f… Rowe.
No pitiful plot
No shallow character
No sleazy scenes
No senseless slaughter
And I still can not stop listening to your stories.
Your stories are great to me
Thanks, AB! I do my best each week, so it's great to hear you're enjoying the outcome 🙏
Your stories just get more amazing. Each one is a gem.
Thanks, nokittys. This one I definitely have a special place for. So glad you found it.
Really impressed with the ideas i glean from you writings.
Cheers, Johnny! Glad you're enjoying so many of them!
I write in a journal for my daughter. I write about her journey growing up and all of the things I don’t think anyone will tell her about me should I pass before I can. I also try to impart every moral, ethical, and philosophical idea I hold dear.
I do this because I fear that from the insidious nature of my nicotine addiction, and the dangerous circumstances my job puts me into, I want her to have a piece of me that she can always carry with her.
I like that that was the narrative form of this beautiful short story.
Wow! Thanks, Kevin 😃 That's an amazing and priceless keepsake that hopefully you'll both be able to share many many years from now! Glad this one hit home for you 🙏
Unbelievably vivid and detailed. Absolutely magnificent. Again thank you for the story.
Thank you, Dave 🙏 Very proud of this one. Glad you appreciated it.
A momentary vision, a flash of revelation, a flicker of a new perspective. Something to grasp and bring into greater focus, to internalize, incorporate and then, to grow, to expand as a living, thinking, feeling being.
The phone rings, the evening news comes on, the dog barks; I cannot hold that light on the edge of my sight. It slips away and I once again live with limited vision.
"Oh, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love."
Thank you. A light on my path, a challenge to my complacency, a reminder that at 70, I still have a responsibility to grow.
Thank you, Cecile, for such a beautiful, thoughtful comment! 🙏😃
Profound!
Thanks, Vicki!
Thoughtful. The disabilities that life can impose can also open new paths, alternate understandings. Accept, adapt stay strong.
Thanks, Casard!
Really touching story! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Glad you found it so! Happy to share 😃And thank you, Keith, for all your thoughtful comments!
The point of view and delivery of this boya plight is a wonderful slight to the status quo. Which in my eyes is pretty damn cool
How wonderful. Excellently expressed as always.
Thanks, Ed! Glad you enjoyed this one 😃
i once experienced the world connected by multicolored lightening. Not huge crashing bolts in the sky, but silent, slender, highly fractal bolts of color. Each monochromatic brilliant flash passing or ending mere feet to yards away from me. Sometimes crossing paths, but never combining. This is only the brightest of the many experiences i've had in the unseen worlds of color. Your words more accurately describe what i've experienced than any i've ever seen 🍄 !:-)
Cheers, Barry! You describe it pretty well yourself 😃 Sounds like a cool experience!
@@RoweLit Thank You PE. Your validation is more precious to me than gold. i'm 62 and wanted to write books since i was 13. It's impossible when that short description, which could be read aloud in less than 10 seconds, took me over an hour and a half to put together in a process that is anything but linear! 😮💨🤐🙂 Oh well. It leaves me with an enormous admiration for Your Gifts. !:-) 🙏💜⚡
Thanks, Barry! It is an art 🙂 I do have an eye for a sentence that has been crafted 😉
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Btw, if you still so aspire, I do have a channel dedicated to learning fiction writing. May be worth a look 🤔
You have an amazing breadth of imagination.
Thanks, Susan 🙏😃
I feel like I could extra appreciate this story because of reading the work of Oliver Sacks!
Sacks is some enlightening reading🤔 Thanks, OP, glad you appreciated this one!
Hooked on Rowe- should be on a T-shirt…
Thanks, Michael! Hmm ... Merch store potential? 😂 Maybe some day. So much to do, so little time.
Just brilliant
Thanks, Peter! 😃🙏
Beautiful
Thanks, Hartley 🙏😃
Another winner, P.E.
Glad you found it, Felicity. One of my favorites from this past year.
2nd time I've listened to this story. Excellent! It's a huge topic - where does inspiration come from? I'd be interested to learn where Mr Rowe found the inspiration for this original story.
Maybe he has a 12 yo girlfriend ;)
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Mark CEN CA miss this one too what's happening PE 😮 I see I was here 2 months ago but dont remember hearing it
The warships of the ancient world, Greek triremes for instance, had rowers that were paid. I am less certain about Roman warships, which included triremes as well as larger vessels with more rowers.
The concept of galley slaves seems to have been a feature of Christian and Islamic navies.
Cheers, Andy. I'm not sure I could immediately pull a reference to support my strong guess that it varied among different navies and eras (and maybe even on the same ships). Perhaps some Greek rowers were paid, but with the ubiquity over time of the institution, some percentage over time had to be in bondage, given the nature of war itself and the fact that losers were taken as spoils. The Romans, I think, definitely did employ them in their navies. A tough life to be sure--trireme rower. Happy to not be one today!
@@RoweLit History rarely reduces to just a few ways of doing things. There are UA-cam videos of a best-guess modern trireme called the "Olympias." 170 rowers, hot and sweaty work but a way for urban poor to make a living, and something I could envision my younger self doing. Conditions not as horrific as you seem to imagine. Rowing takes some skill, and the engine of the vessel could also fulfill other tasks as well.
I think there are primary sources that support my argument that Greek rowers were free men who were paid. Not sure I want to go down that rabbit-hole of searching for sources that have shaped my opinion.
At one time I immersed myself in that subject, and am very much a history geek.
I recommend "The History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides as good primary source history of that era. I don't remember if he mentions how rowers were paid however. I should mention that a college professor and his class inspired my interest. He claims that the Athenian democracy grew out of the rowers of Athens.
I enjoy your work, thought I'd left Science Fiction behind decades ago, and then I find your stories.
And I think you must have a good grasp of history that is reflected in your writing.
🤔👏👏👏👏🤝🌌🕊️ agree rocking hard
Thanks, G!
Try walking in my shoes… and yes the war is an abomination.
Mark CEN CA was here😮
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This dude.... Rocking hard.
"Don't judge me until you've walked a mile in my shoes'', said the clown. HAHAHAHAHAhahah.....clowns. big shoes ..humorous effect .......wallking in silly shoes.uhm....I'll shut up and let the professionals get back to their work.