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Intentionally Seek Beauty - Photos of My Garden and Trees - Instead of Watching TV I Choose to Photograph Roses... and Rocks... and Clouds... It Focuses My Attention on the Positive.

Intentionally Seek Beauty - Photos of My Garden and Trees - gvan42

I Must say that My Mother Went Out of her Way to Find The Ugly Side of Everything... We Were at Dulles Airport in Virginia and I was Admiring the SWOOSH of the Ceiling when She Pointed out that the Roof Leaked... Thankfully I Learned a Lot from MOM... Mainly, DO THE OPPOSITE... She ended up Drinking herself to Death on Alcohol... Cirrhosis of the Liver...

OOPS! Should Have Smoked WEED... Not One Fatality in 5,000 Years...

Fashion History: When I went "to Town" in the 1960s (San Francisco) I was wearing My High School Sports Letterman Sweater... When we went out to a Dance at the Fillmore West, My Friend Loaned my a Second Hand Army Jacket... So I Would Appear Cool...Remember Army Jackets? Like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...

and then much later I bought a Lightweight Camouflage Jacket and Sewed Stripes Running Down The Sleeves made out of Purple Sequins... With a Circle at the End of the Sleeve... My Attempt to Make a Sgt. Pepper Jacket...

My Goal in Life was to Become a Record Cover Artist... OOPS... Didn't Happen... Became a Draftsman at a Computer Company Instead... BUT... I Did Get To SELL DRAWINGS FOR A LIVING... My specialty was Printed Circuit Board Artwork. It was Photographed and Used to Make the Actual Electrical Connections between Integrated Circuits... I Learned that Skill at West Valley Junior College in Saratoga, CA

Ambulance Coming to Take Away My Roommate.
Never to Return

Living here in an Old Folks Home I Have Seen Many People Die. It Doesn't Look Too Bad... Near the End They Simply Lose Touch With Reality and The Care givers Feed Them, Remove Waste and Wash... It Looks Like Most People DO NOT Notice Death...

I refuse to watch Things on TV that Make Me Angry... Especially "News" That I Can't Do Anything About... I Missed the Entire Murder Trial of the Man Who Killed George Floyd... Whatever The F*CK His Name Is...

Instead, I Watch Jeopardy! and Play that Game On the Internet... FUN! and It Makes My Brain Work...

and I Like to Read Bloomberg News on TV. They have a Scrolling Headline Column that Forces me to Read Very Fast... and It Often Has Words I've Never Heard of and Companies or even Countries that I Simply Do Not Know...

For Example: Myanmar is the Country formerly Called Burma. It's Between India and Vietnam... and they are Having some kind of Crisis There but... It Has No Effect on My Life...

Link to All My Groovy Products on My Zazzle Store:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products?qs=groovy

Marijuana Tourism - my trip to Washington State, The Space Needle, The Experience Music Pavilion and then Oregon.

As legalization spread across the USA I wanted to experience LEGAL weed as soon as possible. When I retired from work I did a lot of driving around sleeping in the back of my VAN... I was like a turtle with my home on my back. First I drove to Utah with my friend Mike Jensen to attend the Rainbow Gathering...

After we were done with that I took a drive to Washington State to experience the Legal Weed. On the first visit I was unable to find any... I asked some local kids and asked for directions but there were very few stores and they were often closed...

On the Second Trip I picked up a hitchhiker who had some hash oil and he gave me some as a thank you gift for picking him up in the rain... Later I decided to go home and attend the Kinetic Sculpture Race at home but... and this is a big but... I smoked some hash oil... then I got onto Highway #5 and I accidentally put the van into gear #2 and turned on the radio... When I hit 70 miles per hour the transmission exploded and then the engine caught fire... OOPS! I pulled over to the side of the freeway and said the Serenity prayer... I walked down the freeway and over to a Lumber Mill. The security guard called me a tow truck and I was towed to a motel...

I had the van towed to an auto repair place where they said it would cost $8,000 to repair my Ford Windstar. I paid $3,000 to buy it used so I decided it was Uneconomical to repair... Eventually I gave it to the Humane Society as a donation to help animals.

I did not allow this disaster to interfere with my vacation. I rode the AMTRAK to Seattle, Bought and ate TWO Marijuana Cookies, drank some of that rocket fuel coffee and rode the Monorail to the Space Needle and the Jimi Hendrix Experience Music Pavilion. (also a Nirvana Museum) Both musicians lived near Seattle. They had a musical instrument for tourists to play... It was 20 Tubular Bells that random people could whack with pool balls hung from a wire. VERY popular with children. I loved it too.

Then I rode the Monorail to downtown Seattle Business District and arrived at Quitting Time on a Sunny Friday afternoon. The first big weekend of Spring. I was impressed with the JOY of the office workers and the BEAUTY of the Secretaries. One effect of a heavy Cannabis Dose is that it makes women appear more beautiful... I really had to piss and was in the center of the city with no public bathrooms... so I peed my pants... I didn't care. as an Old Person, Peeing Your Pants is Common!

I stayed at motels for a few weeks and walked, rode the train, rode the bus and taxi and eventually got home. Quite a tricky walkabout. I enjoyed the friendship of kids in Centralia, Washington... Great People! Then I bought another Van for $3,000...

I wanted to not only experience LEGAL WEED but I wanted to Vote with my Money and reward Washington State politicians who voted for Legal weed. The next year Oregon legalized Marijuana, Then Nevada and California... Soon... the entire USA.

Read More of My Autobiography at:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

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and then much later I bought a Lightweight Camouflage Jacket and Sewed Stripes Running Down The Sleeves made out of Purple Sequins... With a Circle at the End of the Sleeve... My Attempt to Make a Sgt. Pepper Jacket...

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