Late Bloomers – Part XXXVI
Jul 8th, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series | 355 viewsEvolution begins with origination, initiation, brainstorm, hunch, self-starter mode, or a plain accident, all which may treat the beginning of an idea, a product, or a belief. Like friend Joe or Fred might say, “I thought of it first. It’s my invention. The rights should belong to me.”
Those stories have been heard for years upon decades upon centuries.
As with ranks and echelon levels in aristocracy and the military and in politics, as well as names of books, stories, poems, one never knows truly what’s behind a title, what sets it off, what it entails.
So it was with our late bloomers, slowly out of the gate, slow to change, slow to adapt, but once up to speed raced headlong into newness. They began a host of changes that paced and raced with new rights, new appreciations, new designs, new methods of exposure, applications that opened eyes far and wide, and leaped into attention in magazine and newspaper advertisements, within show reviews and musicals, upon modular runways that spread perpendicularly into large audiences, and gauged the mansions of some free-thinkers, as we followed chemise, crinoline, drawers, underpants, panties, scanties, step-ins, briefs, bikini bottoms, and the disappearing thong.
As said, one never knows what’s behind a name, brand or title.
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About Tom Sheehan: Bio note: Tom Sheehan’s books are Epic Cures and Brief Cases, Short Spans, from Press 53; A Collection of Friends and From the Quickening, from Pocol Press. His work is currently in new anthologies from Press 53, Home of the Brave, Stories in Uniform and Milspeak: Warriors, Veterans, Family and Friends Writing the Military Experience. He has 14 Pushcart nominations, the Georges Simenon Award for fiction, a story in the Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009 and a nomination for Best of the Web 2010. His novels include Vigilantes East, Death for the Phantom Receiver and An Accountable Death. His poetry books include The Saugus Book; Ah, Devon Unbowed; and This Rare Earth & Other Flights. He served in Korea, 1951-52, with the 31st Infantry Regiment. He has many Internet and print magazine appearances, has appeared in 11 print issues of Ocean Magazine, has 134 cowboy stories on Rope and Wire Magazine, recorded works in Qarrtsiluni, work in Rosebud, Lady Jane Miscellany, Perigee and Writing Raw, etc. He helped co-edit and issue two books on his hometown of Saugus, MA, sold 3700 to date of 4500 printed ( 842 total pages in the two books) with color sections, text, timelines, nostalgia and history, all proceeds for Saugus High School graduates via the John Burns Memorial Scholarship. Tom’s web site is at http://www.milspeak.org/TomHome2.htm. |
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