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The Goats from the Sheep is not about genetics or animal husbandry. It’s an adventure novel about people, particularly about how people change, but readers will know that immediately. Explorers were cautioned not to look beyond the horizon. Emigrants were admonished to be satisfied with their villages. Workers were scolded to accept the trades of their fathers. Laborers were warned to be satisfied with their wages. The uneducated were warned to not aspire to learning, to put on airs. Sufferers were told to endure their pain. Slaves were told to be obedient to their masters. Some didn’t listen, and the world was changed. From potty training to pew sitting we’ve been urged to be like sheep, gentle and placid. We’ve been invited to lie down in green pastures beside still waters. Those who succumb will have been taken-in like sheep. They will have been gathered together into flocks. They will have been safely herded. Gentle lambs need be reminded though they are about to be sheared or worse yet, served up on racks in a puddle of mint jelly. This book if for those who yearn to climb a rocky ledge, scale a mountain height, stand on hind legs, butt occasional heads, or just ram around like goats. That kind of behavior risks being noticed. Friends may ask, “What’s got into your kid? She’s (he’s) a bit different from everyone, isn’t he (she?)” Conversely, security means looking left and right before entering traffic. Being well adjusted involves holding one’s tongue, swallowing one’s outlandish opinions. The opposite, freedom, demands casting off everyone’s expectations. It means being willing, even eager, to change. It means not conforming to what others expect. It’s easier to do that by moving away from home, the community, the family business, father’s trade, the parental religion or political party. Emigrants moved to the new world and started new traditions. Today it’s the ‘expats’, those who choose to live abroad who seek to be different, to be changed, maybe even their sex. They are goat-like in desiring to go. They change in the process; they become even more adventurous in a volatile environment. These are the ‘expats’, the expatriots, those who discover that life is more accurately measured not by a span of years but by a broadness of experience. Many of these ‘goat people’ are found in Asia, specifically Singapore. These persons, fictional to be sure, are never-the-less inspired by real persons about the China Sea. These are the models for the adventure stories in Goats. The time setting of The Goats from the Sheep is approximately the present and is based on certain current events and concerns, although these are likewise modified to maintain the fictional nature of these stories.
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David Danielson, retired agnostic minister, considered ‘different’, relives history in fictional characters inspired by acquaintances. In retirement he’s written a musical, worked in stage lighting, a medical air service, and in Florida courtroom mediation. With Joan married fifty-nine years, they enjoy son, daughter, and grandchildren. Neither yearns for green pastures. |
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