Collection: Ships - Of Voyages Of Destiny by techgnotic, journal
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Of Voyages of Destiny: and Fish Fries
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As kids, we could never understand why rich people would hang boring paintings of ships side-by-side with their portraits of beloved dead ancestors.
We didn’t understand this was not an admiration of the boat, not like the Porsche poster in my brother’s bedroom. This was about the valor of The Voyage, the courage to carry the family treasure across an ocean to begin a new life in a new land. A problem at sea meant a horrible death, with no “closure” ever, and
