Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

Vanderlaan Family Photographs from Our Book - "Ancestors Memories and Simple Gifts" - The History of the Vanderlaan Family - and Many Many More Pictures that People Sent Me.


All these Pictures are curved
because I Just Pointed the Camera
at the Book and the Pages are Curved...




Gregory and Martin Vanderlaan


Jill Robin Greg Martin and Prince the Dog Vanderlaan






Justin and Marguerite Vanderlaan Dressed Up For a Ball


Martin and Gregory Vanderlaan
Holding Swimming Medals
at the Oka Road Swim and Racquet Club
in Los Gatos...


Thanksgiving 1951


Marcus Vanderlaan US Army


Vanessa Justin and Patti Vanderlaan

12/25/2021: We had a Family Gathering on ZOOM... Wonderful fun... Totally Safe from COVID-19... Finding out what's popular with children these days... and New Jobs for the 20 somethings... and Old folks re-telling stories... Excellent... These people are precious to me... I was sitting at the dining room table with my housemates and the Care giver in the background serving lunch... and all of the residents waved and said "Hi" to my family... That gave my family a True Idea of My Lifestyle... at an Old Folks home with SIX Residents and One Care giver on duty 24 hours a day..
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Thanksgiving with my Family as a Child. In Los Gatos and Sacramento. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/11/thanksgiving-with-my-family-as-child-in.html




Vanderlaan Family at Thanksgiving:Left to Right Standing: Robin's Husband, Robin's Son, My Brother Martin, My Dad Justin. Seated: Cousin Robin, Patti's Mom Bonita, Patti-Martin's Wife, Child, Uncle Marc, Aunt Peg and Mom-Marguerite


Gregory, Vanessa, Nicole and Justin Vanderlaan


Vanderlaan Family Collage for Dad's
90th Birthday Coffee Cup.
Gregory, Marguerite, Justin, Vanessa, Nicole, Martin, Patty, Victoria, Brodie and Patty's Mom, Bonita.

Hi all,
Vanessa and Patti have been working on a hoop skirt, petticoat and supporting hoops for "appropriate attire" for the Dickens Faire at the Cow Palace yesterday. It all came together as you can see in the dressing photos.
Marty


Vanessa and Patti Post Vanderlaan


Vanessa Vanderlaan at the Dickens Faire at the Cow Palace in San Francisco Modeling a Home Made Hoop Skirt made by Vanessa and Patti Post Vanderlaan

Vanderlaan Family Photographs: Martin, Patti, Nicole, Vanessa, Bonita, Justin, Gregory, Victoria, Beth, Broady, Cadence, Reese, Gary Lea and My Daves Avenue Elementary Class Photo
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/02/vanderlaan-family-photographs-martin.html


Christmas 1961 Left to right: Martin Vanderlaan, Cousin Patty, Gregory Vanderlaan, Cousin Gary Lea - We Had Family Parties in the Willow Glen district of San Jose. Mom's Family had a Farm there... growing Prunes... Grandma Made Prunes Stuffed With Divinity Fudge (100% Sugar) - Uncle Forrest Made Apricot Liquor by Taking a Mason Jar Filled with pitted Fresh apricots, vodka and rock candy... set it on the shelf for a year to Mellow... They used to give the children a single apricot to eat and That's My First Drink of Alcohol...
FUN! Not So Much Fun Years Later...


Victoria, Gregory
In Cutten, California
Near Eureka...



Picture of Victoria's Sister Beth, Our Home in the Redwood Forest and a Tower of Jewels Plant. 


My Truck and The Magic Bus Kinetic Sculpture


Vanessa
Bay to Breakers Race...


Martin


Daves Ave Elementary School 1965 Mrs Fuller's Class


Nicole


Dog, Patti, Bonita, Vanessa

and Then I Realized I Did Not Have Enough Photographs of Nicole, Brodie, Reese, Cadence or Vanessa... So I Found All of These Pictures on Facebook...







































My Family from My Mom's Side...
In a Crab Restaurant near Baltimore.
My Cousin Dian, her sons Ken and John and
My Brother Martin (on the left)

Writings of Justin Duff Vanderlaan - My Father - How the Airplane got to Oak Meadow Park Los Gatos California...
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/01/writings-of-justin-duff-vanderlaan-my.html

I Took My Parents to the Iran-Contra Hearings at the US Capital. General Secord Testifying. Exciting! I was really glad to take Mom and Dad to a place that they had fun at.
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/06/taking-my-parents-to-iran-contra.html

Dad's 90th Birthday Party in Los Gatos, California - Justin Duff Vanderlaan Family Photographs

One thing Dad told me was: “Scots Wah Hey, We Wallace Bled.” In English: We are Scots. Men of William Wallace. Like in the Movie Braveheart with Mel Gibson...

Psychedelic art by gvan42



He also bought me a book: “Born Fighting” by Jim Webb about the history of the Scots/Irish in America. Remember the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd? That’s our people!

In the 1990’s I often drove around with my Dad. One time we were cruising down Vista Ave near our home and he said “At least I raised you right, that man’s son became a “Merry Prankster”…and he pointed to a neighbor’s house. I have forgotten who the boy was but I’m sure he was older than me… more like my big brother’s age. And definitely NOT Neal Cassady. He lived in a Different part of Los Gatos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Cassady

I was living in Willow Glen at that time and Working at Radio Shack and he would often come over an we would get a cup of coffee and sit on a sunshiny bus stop and “solve the problems of the world”. He often wrote letters to the editor and they usually got published in the San Jose Mercury News. One letter recommended putting a stop light on Almaden Expressway at a dangerous intersection and soon the city installed one there. Saved some lives…

My mom’s family lived in “The Heart of the Willows” and I remember going to Christmas Parties there. My uncle made apricot white lightning and I would eat an apricot, get drunk and then dance with my cousin. The adults thought it was funny to have small children experience sexual desire before puberty… HA HA! The way he made the liquor was to fill a mason jar with pitted apricots and rock candy (sugar) then pour in vodka. Set that jar on a shelf for a year and the liquid was nearly 100% alcohol.

He also went to a bar named “Chick Letty’s” during prohibition. Willow Glen was an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County just outside the border of San Jose. The laws were not enthusiastically enforced in the County… Decades later I went to the same bar and purchased illegal marijuana in the parking lot. SO, nothing has really changed… He bought illegal booze and I bought illegal reefer…

Mom’s grade school has been recycled as a Senior Center and Dad went there to participate in their bus trips to Eureka. It was a voyage to the Bear River Casino in Lolita but he just used it as a handy way to travel to see me.

One time when he visited we went on The Hammond Trail in McKinleyville to look at the Mouth of the Mad River. It is visible from a park bench there. We had a long and meaningful talk about Mom. I’m really glad that I got sober and became my Dad’s friend in the last years of his life. I was drinking heavily when Mom died and missed that event. OOPS! Mom worked as a secretary in Fisher Junior High School Library in Los Gatos and Lexington Elementary School. The kids loved and respected her. Dad proposed marriage to mom on the top of the hill behind the Novitiate in Los Gatos. There is a trail that goes to Lexington Reservoir and from the top you can see all of Santa Clara Valley. (Filled with apricot trees).

I did experience Aunt Alberta’s last years. Dad bought a Television at my Radio Shack store and we drove over to her house and installed it in her bedroom. She had a TV in the living room but when she became beridden she spent her entire time in the bedroom. I remember tht I wanted to explain to my Cousin Dianne how to use the remote control but she said hat it didn’t matter because Aunt Alberta couldn’t tell one station from another. She was taking morphine at that time but hated it. Too much nausea…

Grandpa Malek worked as a carpenter (general contractor). He would build entire houses. Mom’s family would live in the houses while they were being built and then move on to the next house when grandpa sold it. Our family house on Hedding Street in San Jose was built by grandpa. We had to move because it was under the flight path for airplanes to the San Jose Airport and the entire neighborhood became uninhabitable when JET airplanes were invented. We moved to Los Gatos and the house was put onto a truck and moved to Almaden. The house was valuable enough to justify moving it instead of simply tearing it down. Grandpa became a carpenter right after the 1906 earthquake. He was living in Oregon when the call went out for all able bodied men to go work rebuilding the city of San Francisco. He also built a house on “The 17 Mile Drive” a neighborhood of palatial mansions in Carmel. Mom, Dad and Grandpa built a Redwood Deck on the back of our house in Los Gatos in 1960. The deck is still there today. https://www.pebblebeach.com/17-mile-drive/

Grandpa Vanderlaan worked as a minister. During the 1930’s the people that attended his Church had NO MONEY to put in the collection plate. Ministers feed their families with the money from the collection plate. Grandma, dad and uncle Marc went camping on the Trinity River because there was good fishing, hunting and NO RENT. Dad and Uncle Marc were very good at fishing and hunting during the 1930’s because that was a major source of food. During the great Depression Grandpa came to the realization that God did not exist. So he quit his job with the Church and became a math teacher. He also was a founding member of the Humanist Society. It’s an alternative to Christianity. My dad was an atheist until the day he died. My brother became a Unitarian and I became an Acid Head. Grandpa Vanderlaan wrote a book about Religion… I tried to read it a couple of times but got bored in the early chapters and never finished it.

We went to Christmas parties at Dorothy and Leland Lea’s home in the hills behind Oakland. My cousin Gary and I would play guitars and sing. Gary also played the family piano and the drums in a rock band of his friends from high school. Leland had a huge collection of tiny liquor bottles. The size they give you on an airplane… Surprisingly, after Leland passed away Gary sold the collection to someone on the internet. Before he shipped them to the customer he emptied all the bottles and poured the booze down the sink. It’s illegal to ship liquor across state lines but empty bottler are Legal…

Gary Lea taught me about the Visual Mantra he used to quit smoking tobacco. Whenever you had an urge to smoke, think of the O’Neil Surf Shop Logo and remember that if you don’t smoke you will have a longer life and more opportunities to go surfing… Good Idea!

We went to Sacramento on Thanksgiving to Uncle Marc and Aunt Peg’s home. They had two daughters, Robin and Jill. Uncle Marc became a criminal defense attorney in Sacramento and Aunt Peg was a Social Worker. Jill became a lawyer and moved to Seattle and Robin went to work at Uncle Marc’s Law office. One time a client of Aunt Pegs did a Bank Robbery and was holding hostages. The police called her and said that the only person he felt comfortable talking to was his social worker… She negotiate the release of the hostages.

Martin’s wife Patti took me to my first AA meeting at Lake Tahoe. Thanks! It allowed me to live a lot longer.

I remember going to Martin and Adrienne’s wedding on a Boat in Long Beach Harbor. We wore funny hats (Yarmulke) and I danced holding up a chair the she sat on.

I remember going to Nicole’s Wedding in Laguna Beach. Again, funny hats! No chair dance that I remember… It was at a really elegant Golf Course and we had a lot of regular dancing… We met Brodie’s Family for the first time. Martin bought us a Hotel Room at the fancy Hotel… it was where Hollywood Film Stars wen to party in the era of Charlie Chaplin. Big Fun! I also got to go to an Anti Iraq War protest march at the Beach. Every year we had protest marches in Eureka and I was afraid that I’d miss out if I went to Laguna Beach… But the people there hated the Iraq War Also!

Read more of my autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2017/07/17/how-bubble-up-economics-works-give-all-working-people-a-raise-and-we-will-spend-it-in-american-businesses/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/compulsive-hoarding-of-money-disorder-leads-to-global-economic-collapse/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/we-can-no-longer-afford-to-have-a-government-that-behaves-like-mindless-vegetables/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/no-nukes-stop-vogtle-georgia-usa-they-are-building-a-fukushima-chernobyl-tmi/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/all-earth-beings-are-being-called-upon-arise-violet-overgrow-is-calling-you/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/green-forest-brand-toilet-paper-is-an-alternative-to-koch-brothers-products-100-recycled/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/please-post-liberal-concepts-to-conservative-social-networks-to-help-educate-the-brainwashed/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/try-the-scientific-method-observe-reality-collect-facts-analyse-the-data-draw-conclusions-its-the-opposite-of-the-republicrime-method/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/the-day-the-power-went-out-speculative-fiction-in-the-what-if-genre-note-this-was-written-by-hand-in-pen-on-paper/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/comparative-religions-so-many-different-gods-many-loudly-proclaiming-that-they-are-the-one-true-god-absurd/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/im-in-favor-of-genetic-engineering-of-humans-lets-design-better-people-smarter-would-be-great/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/one-thing-dad-told-me-was-scots-wah-hey-we-wallace-bled-in-english-we-are-scots-men-of-william-wallace-braveheart-mel-gibson/

CRIME IS LEGAL FOR REPUBLICANS. Obviously Guilty: Texas Attorney General Paxton. But He was Acquitted! That's INSANE!

Impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted on 16 impeachment articles on Saturday, thwarting an effort to remove him from office over allegations of corruption.
His acquittal follows a two-week trial and a day of deliberations. Paxton was impeached in the Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives in May by an overwhelming vote.

POP QUIZ: 
What do these People Have in Common?
Peter Navarro=Guilty, 4 Proud Boys=Guilty, 23 Oath Keepers=Guilty, Stewie (shot himself in the eye with his own gun) Rhodes=Guilty, Allen Weisselberg=Guilty, Jesse Benton=Guilty, Lev Parnas=Guilty, Igor Fruman=Guilty, Steve Bannon=Guilty, Nikolas Cruz=Guilty, John Lambert=Guilty, Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwaan=Guilty, Duncan Hunter=Guilty, Chris Collins=Guilty and Over 1,000 QAnon Freaks that Have Been Arrested for Storming the US Capitol on January 6th and FAILING to Overthrow The US Government and Crown Trump King...
ANSWER:
They are All TrumpNik® Swamp Creatures... 

Republicans - Total Failures in every way - cartoon


 

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The 2024 Election is Most Important in my Lifetime. If Trump Wins he will Outlaw Elections and Crown Himself KING... Then he will take Revenge against everyone that Opposed him... Arresting about a Thousand People... and He'll grant a Pardon for All the January 6th Insurrectionists... and Basically Make Crime Legal for "REAL" Republicans... but he'll still Lock Up all "RINOS" and Democrats... He'll Replace Everyone in the DOJ and the IRS with Trumpanzees... Making Cheating on your Taxes Legal for Rich People... He'll Shut Down the EPA and Make Pollution by Corporations Legal... 

and He will Declare The Entire USA Bankrupt so We Won't Have to Pay the Interest on the National Debt. and That will Cause Global Economic Collapse... and Starvation of Billions of People... The Only People that will Survive are Hunter/Gatherers and Subsistence Farmers. If you get your food at a Grocery Store... How will you eat when all the Trucks Run Out of Gas?

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The MAGA Republicans are desperate. They tried for years to tie Joe Biden to his son's business dealings and found nothing. It's all a distraction from the indictments against the Trump mob, all led by Trump himself!

In all my years I’ve never witnessed a more corrupt Republican Party. So much hate and revenge. Horrible example for our country and they will be known as the worst group ever. Making fools of themselves. Vote Blue all the way. We must make a statement because our democracy depends on it. This is where we make America great again. πŸ’™πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ


They are just trying to take trump out of the news. But next the republicans who yells to take money away from the DOJ. That will include Hunter’s case too. It has been awhile since I last heard about taking money for the DOJ because the repubs wanted to make it hard for the DOJ to take action on trump.
GOP is Crazy meme


There should always be concern for those we include in our associations, That was one of the primary methods used by the FBI in their COINTELPRO operations to destroy the American Indian Movement *AIM* and the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in the 1960s & 1970s. But one of the ways that agent provocateur technique functions is not only to instigate ineffective actions, but, and this is primary in the method, to cause the members of the organization to question the effective operatives within their organization. The only effective method I know of to combat either destructive function is to take something of a *wait & see* stance where we judge the individual and his/her actions by the fruit they bear.
I guess that idea just slapped them in the face.
Hakeem Jeffries will hopefully sing the same song.

Woke Meme


Republicans still try to ignore the fact that Trump is quite guilty; it is as frustrating as can be!
He is ON TAPE saying Raffensperger might be prosecuted if he did not help find some more trump votes. That is so clearly using an illegal form of extortion to solicit a criminal behavior!
Donnie boy then set up FAKE DELEGATES!!
He is an orange toxic scum on a stinking swamp! He needs to go to prison!!
Otherwise it's SO completely insane and absurd!

#Trump5150 meme


Trump is actually threatening violence over a poll that voters said he’s not mentally fit to be president. Here should be enough to put a gag order on trump. He’s signaling his supporters to go after the Wall Street journal for reporting the poll and Biden. Who knows why he put Biden in there. Anyone with a brain can see he’s a dangerous unstable corrupt conman
“challenge” to Murdoch, Murdoch’s sons, Biden, and various Wall Street Journal brass—the terms of which Trump stipulated in a second post, writing: “I will name the place and the test, and it will be a tough one. Nobody will come even close to me! We can also throw some physical activity into it. I just won the Senior Club Championship at a big golf club, with many very good players. To do so you need strength, accuracy, touch and, above all, mental toughness. Ask Bret Baier (Fox), a very good golfer.”

GOP is EVIL meme


The weight of the baggage we carry will be defined by how much we allow to move through us. When Don Miguel Ruiz said, "Don't take anything personally" in his book, "The Four Agreements", he understood. We are collectors of so much that does not serve us. The comments, slights or judgments of others are carried with us reverberating in places that need not matter. As I have often said, "Do not be baited by someone else's mind".

When we first see this photo, we might immediately focus on what is missing. Perhaps perceiving that he is not a whole person. However, I noticed what was present in him. The ability to allow the flow of our life to move through us can lighten our spirit. Like clouds moving effortlessly through the sky of our heart, we can release the stories which no longer matter. Zen Master Seungsahn came into the meditation hall telling us, "Only keep don't know mind". When we empty ourselves of the accumulated story of who we think we are, we are empowered to be whoever we chose in any moment. Ram Dass powerfully and poignantly shares these truths in the film "Becoming Nobody".

I did not know there was a photographer, father or writer in me. Most importantly, I did not cling to the belief that there wasn't. When we allow the definitions of ourselves to move through us, we open the door to our freedom. Naturally, we take comfort in the security of who we have been. I am not advocating amnesia. We are talking about birthing whatever arises as most authentic. When we allow the shadows of the past to be released, we can steep in the light of our creative energy.

What is the baggage you still carry? Can you place it down? It is ok to say goodbye to that which no longer aligns with our truth. In the end, all bags will be checked at the door. As we open to our evolving self, we ignite our possibilities. Perhaps we retrieve the flame of what once sparked our soul. Do not allow yours to be blown out by resignation. Let the story that you cannot be this or that transform into how you will.

Difference Engine Mandala by gvan42


Have you ever given any thought to all the knowledge you will never directly know for yourself? So much of the knowledge we possess is made available to us, like for example: the theory of Gravity. We know there is a theory, but how many of us can do the maths? Or, how fast is the speed of light? 186,000MPS. (A very old memory). But have we done the work to know for our selves?
I wonder how often this kind of "off the peg" knowledge is taken for granted, and how often the fact that we just don't have time or perhaps the ability to work out or research everything for ourselves is taken advantage of by politicians and advertisers?
Just a thought.
GOP Man Yells at Rainbow - Simpsons Cartoon

This is a new low in House Republicans’ failure to govern. Instead of doing anything to address rising housing costs, raise the minimum wage, tackle child poverty or address the opioid crisis, Republicans have threatened to the plunge the nation into default and are now once again pushing the government to the brink of a shutdown. It’s no wonder this Congress has been the least productive in decades.
Their only goal, it seems, is pleasing their master—the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted former President currently facing 91 state and federal criminal charges. This is an unprecedented crime spree, from endangering national security by illegally keeping classified documents, to conspiring to subvert the U.S. Constitution and lying to federal investigators.
Instead of even attempting to govern, Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Republicans have done everything in their power to run interference for the disgraced former President. They have turned the United States House of Representatives into a vindictive political campaign arm of Donald Trump.
Now Donald Trump and the most extreme members of the MAGA Caucus are pushing a government shutdown if they don’t impeach the sitting President—despite zero evidence to justify such an inquiry. Republicans have already wasted months on a fishing expedition to tie President Biden to the wrongdoing of his adult son, and it has failed. Despite thousands of pages of bank records and hours and hours of testimony, they have failed to produce a shred of evidence of any wrongdoing by President Biden.
And the hypocrisy almost takes your breath away. Kevin McCarthy has repeatedly said you cannot start an impeachment inquiry without a full vote of the House—and even introduced a resolution that condemns an impeachment inquiry without a House vote as an ‘abuse of power’ that ‘brings discredit to the House’ and ‘undermines the voting privileges afforded to each Member and the constituents they represent.’ Yet that is exactly what Kevin McCarthy is doing today. Why? Because he knows impeachment is too extreme to pass the House—even with the Republican majority.
Last Congress, the majority of House Republicans voted to overturn the Presidential election results—supporting the violent insurrectionists who threatened our lives and democracy itself. Now they are disgracing this institution once more, abusing the power vested in us by the Constitution to campaign for a criminal.


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