One Man's Calling
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Comment from JSD
And God moves again, even to the point of giving a man diarrhoea! Excellent stuff once again. I've read these in the wrong order, but I still get the idea. I'm glad those trees were saved.
reply by the author on 19-Sep-2023
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And God moves again, even to the point of giving a man diarrhoea! Excellent stuff once again. I've read these in the wrong order, but I still get the idea. I'm glad those trees were saved.
Comment Written 19-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 19-Sep-2023
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Thank you. Mostly, the chapter order hasn't matter very much.
Comment from lyenochka
Were there protesters against logger that far back? I didn't think it was something that happened only in the last half century. It was awful to destroy those beautiful ancient trees and as you have Ben point out, they really were not that good for building. It lasts and can fight bugs but it broke easily during transport. Another great historical event for Ben to get involved with.
reply by the author on 18-Sep-2023
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Were there protesters against logger that far back? I didn't think it was something that happened only in the last half century. It was awful to destroy those beautiful ancient trees and as you have Ben point out, they really were not that good for building. It lasts and can fight bugs but it broke easily during transport. Another great historical event for Ben to get involved with.
Comment Written 18-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 18-Sep-2023
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Thank you. No, the tree protesters was pure fiction.
Comment from BethShelby
Ben certianly gets himself into a lot of different things. I'm surprised the timbermen didn't have to check to see who the land belonged to before they begin chopping down trees. It seems ashame that so many of trees that tood hundreds of years to grow were chopped down to build houses that liked were replaced after fifty or so years. I enjoy your stories an the way you bring actual history into them.
reply by the author on 17-Sep-2023
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Ben certianly gets himself into a lot of different things. I'm surprised the timbermen didn't have to check to see who the land belonged to before they begin chopping down trees. It seems ashame that so many of trees that tood hundreds of years to grow were chopped down to build houses that liked were replaced after fifty or so years. I enjoy your stories an the way you bring actual history into them.
Comment Written 17-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 17-Sep-2023
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Thank you immensely! It's fun working historical characters in. They did have rights to cutting the trees. the kids were breaking the law. But their intervention gave John Muir time to save them.
Comment from Pam Lonsdale
Well, the Lord has some real interesting ways of working, doesn't he?
Ben seems to have found a place in San Francisco where he can do good and where people are actually willing to help him and take care of him for his efforts. But I know he won't be there for much longer, as it seems others are taking up his cause.
Good chapter, Wayne.
Pam
reply by the author on 17-Sep-2023
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Well, the Lord has some real interesting ways of working, doesn't he?
Ben seems to have found a place in San Francisco where he can do good and where people are actually willing to help him and take care of him for his efforts. But I know he won't be there for much longer, as it seems others are taking up his cause.
Good chapter, Wayne.
Pam
Comment Written 17-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 17-Sep-2023
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Thank you. I always appreciate your reviews.
And you are right... trouble brews.
Comment from Wendy G
I am so glad he was able to save these magnificent trees from being chopped down, and as you say it wold take thousands of years for new ones to reach that grandeur. Ben was certainly in the right place at the right time. It's clever to weave in known historical people and events. Well done.
Wendy
reply by the author on 17-Sep-2023
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I am so glad he was able to save these magnificent trees from being chopped down, and as you say it wold take thousands of years for new ones to reach that grandeur. Ben was certainly in the right place at the right time. It's clever to weave in known historical people and events. Well done.
Wendy
Comment Written 17-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 17-Sep-2023
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Thank you. It was fun.
Comment from Jay Squires
"Ben Walters." [Just curious ... unless Ben Walters is a historical person, I can't figure why you would choose to name a character the same first name as our protagonist? It just creates awkwardness when you orchestrate dialogues between them. As it turned out, you handled it well enough. I was just curious why you did it.]
Good to see John Muir introduced to the plotline.
Another good chapter, Wayne.
reply by the author on 17-Sep-2023
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"Ben Walters." [Just curious ... unless Ben Walters is a historical person, I can't figure why you would choose to name a character the same first name as our protagonist? It just creates awkwardness when you orchestrate dialogues between them. As it turned out, you handled it well enough. I was just curious why you did it.]
Good to see John Muir introduced to the plotline.
Another good chapter, Wayne.
Comment Written 16-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 17-Sep-2023
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Thank you.
On choosing the same name, Ben, I was going for realism. With all Ben (Persons') contacts, how likely is it that he never comes across another Ben? I thought that it would also add to the timberman's affinity for our protagonist. Easy enough to change, though.
Thanks again.
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No, like I said at the time, you handled the duplicated names well. I thought the other Ben might have had a historical significance that I just wasn't aware of.
Jay
Comment from Carol Hillebrenner
Ben certainly gets all the help he needs from God. He went up to protect the girl and ended up protecting the sequoias as well. He also met the governor and John Muir, who may prove useful to him later.
reply by the author on 16-Sep-2023
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Ben certainly gets all the help he needs from God. He went up to protect the girl and ended up protecting the sequoias as well. He also met the governor and John Muir, who may prove useful to him later.
Comment Written 16-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 16-Sep-2023
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smiley face here
Thank you for your very nice review.
Comment from Jim Wile
This was an enjoyable chapter, Wayne. How anyone could try to justify clear-cutting all those magnificent centuries-old sequoias is beyond me. You'd think someone working out there in nature would have a little more respect for it. Well, the greedy and short-sighted are what keep Ben in business trying to reform them, though I think he'd prefer to do something other than that.
More famous people in the likes of John Muir and Washington Bartlett. I wonder why his term was so short?
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The third paragraph of the new text starting with "Hey Ben. Glad we could find you." appears to have a sentence from the recap stuck in the middle of it.
reply by the author on 16-Sep-2023
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This was an enjoyable chapter, Wayne. How anyone could try to justify clear-cutting all those magnificent centuries-old sequoias is beyond me. You'd think someone working out there in nature would have a little more respect for it. Well, the greedy and short-sighted are what keep Ben in business trying to reform them, though I think he'd prefer to do something other than that.
More famous people in the likes of John Muir and Washington Bartlett. I wonder why his term was so short?
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The third paragraph of the new text starting with "Hey Ben. Glad we could find you." appears to have a sentence from the recap stuck in the middle of it.
Comment Written 16-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 16-Sep-2023
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Grrr. Would that we could return to typewriters! Or pencils!
Thank you!!!
Comment from Debbie D'Arcy
Another great chapter, Wayne! This time, Ben's mission takes him into another potentially precarious situation in order to rescue the daughter of his lawyer's friend who's been protesting against the timbering going on in the woods. Wayne is strengthened by his prayers and his approach calms down the normally quite headstrong Ben Walters. Ideally here, Wayne, I would have had him named differently as it caused a bit of confusion and I note you must have realised this when you switched to referring to him by his surname. Small edit: "Look Ben" Ben (P)ersons (upper case) replied... Thanks for sharing Debbie
reply by the author on 16-Sep-2023
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Another great chapter, Wayne! This time, Ben's mission takes him into another potentially precarious situation in order to rescue the daughter of his lawyer's friend who's been protesting against the timbering going on in the woods. Wayne is strengthened by his prayers and his approach calms down the normally quite headstrong Ben Walters. Ideally here, Wayne, I would have had him named differently as it caused a bit of confusion and I note you must have realised this when you switched to referring to him by his surname. Small edit: "Look Ben" Ben (P)ersons (upper case) replied... Thanks for sharing Debbie
Comment Written 16-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 16-Sep-2023
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Thank you for your great review.