Nov 24 1968
From 1967 through the early 70’s I was influenced by the counterculture movement. I briefly lived in a commune in Santa Barbara (Boranco Nation), I smoked dope and took psychedelic drugs. Patty and I move with a group for friends to Eugene Oregon. I wore hippie style clothes.
Apr 8 1968
DSR TKA National Championship in Washington D.C. I spoke on the second question in the final round. Picture from Speaker and Gavel May 1968 showing all those in the final round.
Nov 24 1967
I fully backed the anti Vietnam war movement. Taking part in demonstrations there was the threat of “names being taken” so no corporate job would be possible. The threat of the draft hung over me, until my draft board in Lodi put my name in the lottery at the last minute so I wasn’t selected. […]
Oct 9 1967
The World I Used to Know Wonderful, Wonderful Sounds of Silence Day Dreamer Along Comes Mary Cast Your Fate to Wind Blown in the Wind Cherish Blown in the Wind I Want to be Free Elusive Butterfly Melody to an Unknown Girl Surfer Stomp Land of the Free Home of the Brave Broomstick Cowboy Hungry […]
Sep 22 1967
First year of college I lived in the dorm with Byran Brooks as my roommate.
Aug 26 1967
Attended Long Beach my freshman and sophomore years of college. I was not happy there; my scheme of having two years at an easy beach college before transferring to UC was a mistake. LBSC was an impersonal, mediocre, commuter college. The beach was far away, I had no car to get there, and I had […]
Jul 1 1967
Lyndon and I drove across the country in his red Volkswagen Beetle. We stopped in west Texas to visit his family and Dayton Ohio to visit my aunt and uncle. We continued to the Montreal World Fair and New York City.
Apr 17 1967
Lyndon Bittle and I went undefeated through the 1967 debate season in Yosemite Forensics League.
Nov 26 1965
Lyndon and I were best friends junior and senior years of high school. We were roommates sophomore and junior years of college. We bought a Fiat Spyder together with the financial help of his father. We took a road trip together to the Montreal World Fair in 1966. Senior year of college we grew apart […]
Jul 1 1965
Drove from Lodi to Jackson Hole with Greg Kennedy and his Jackson Hole friend.
Sep 8 1963
Starting about sixth-grade I began a life-long project to figure it all out. The project went through many phases. I began with the question of god. Sometime when I was 16 the remember laying on my back in bed and realizing if the became an atheist I would never look back. For me it was […]
Sep 8 1969
Poetry
In high school and the first two years of college, I wrote poetry. The style was somewhere between ee cummings and Alan Ginsberg.
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