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Infinite Rainbow Clipart by gvan42 - Psychedelic Art - and a Listing of What We are Thankful For!

 

Infinite Rainbow Clipart by gvan42 - Psychedelic Art



For Thanksgiving:
I'm thankful that I quit Smoking and Drinking... That allows my mind to think clearly and my Writing is better because of that... Strangely, Smoking Tobacco gave me Paranoid Schizophrenia... After I Quit I Realized That I'm too insignificant for BIG BROTHER to Bother with Spying on me... Those White Unmarked Vans parked in front of my House is Really just Government Employees Taking a Lunch Break in a Location that Has a Nice View... They are Looking at Humboldt Bay and the Pacific Ocean... not me... 

Arlo Guthrie Said: The Missing 18 1/2 Minutes of Nixon's Oval Office Tapes is Richard Listening to Alice's Restaurant... and Laughing! He Didn't Want Any Evidence of Him Enjoying the Song...

classic heart art green kali by gvan42


I'm thankful for being Born on a Great Year! 1954 I Missed Getting Drafted and being forced to go to Vietnam by ONE YEAR! Excellent! My Friends are Still Angry About Their Time There. I got to Spend "The Sixties" Living 50 Miles from San Francisco... We Went there Often to Visit My Father's Friends and Their Sons... We Went to The Exploratorium and The Fillmore West! Protest Marches... Fisherman's Wharf and Swimming at the Beach... Riding the Roller Coaster at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk after Smoking Marijuana! FUN! 

Giant UFO Flying over the Earth by gvan42
Giant UFO Flying over the Earth by gvan42

I'm thankful for being born in San Jose in 1954... When I Graduated from High School and Needed to Get a Job... Silicon Valley Was Hiring! I went to West Valley Junior College for one year, learned Electronics Drafting and Was Hired Instantly at System Industries... Kids These Days Don't Have the Career Opportunities We Had...

Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - Cosmic Hippy Freakout

I'm thankful that I Live in the Internet Age... The FREE Art Programs Give me something to do during my retirement... and I enjoyed writing my autobiography... I had Help from the people in the "Things I Remember Growing UP in Los Gatos" FaceBorg Group! They Helped me remember!

Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - Cosmic Hippy Freakout

I'm Thankful for Eating Every Day... Since I was Born in the USA, finding food is not a Problem... In Fact, I've heard That for People Living in Foreign Countries, Starvation is a Big Problem...

Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - Cosmic Hippy Freakout

I am grateful for this Thanksgiving. Today’s one I’ve been waiting for. It’s the official beginning of the holiday season. I have no extended plans just peace and quiet. This may sound odd to some. After all when we think of the end of the year festivities often it involves a stream of events linked together in succession which often leaves us overwhelmed and in debt. I’ve chosen to take a different route. My celebration is to be present in the moment with myself and those around me. I don’t need more stuff nor do I wish to fill my body with more than I require. Once these final days of 2022 are done, I will walk into the new one refreshed, whole and well, ready for whatever life brings. Happy Holidays!

Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - Cosmic Hippy Freakout

and on FaceBorg people are Saying:

I'm Making the Devil's Eggs while the Popeye's Turkey heats up . Home Made Cole Slaw is finished. And starting the Broccoli and Mac and Cheese starting as well. Everything going smoothly.

Good Peaceful Vibes✌️Prayers for a
Peaceful Thanksgiving for our World
Not what we say about our Blessings
But how’s we use them! Is the True
Measure of our Thanksgiving
Happy Hiking TODAY Humboldt
MW in the Arcata Wildlife Sancturary

How I feel when I play piano.
Not ghostly, but filled with light.
And perhaps, being watched by someone I have yet to meet, or, see.
Lady Filled With Light playing Piano being Observed by a Man

Greetings From Standing Rock!
https://vimeo.com/438354276?fbclid=IwAR1pmb-HA-te-EeJs9tr0rbmRjFXsN8EFjxTJilRQr0Nw6vVP53PdwF7DkQ
Mark Sims Says:
I’m so Grateful for so many things! Today, I would like to share this wonderful memory with my mentor and dear friend, Daniel Sheehan! It took place exactly 6 years ago today, on November 24th, 2016 at Standing Rock. BTW, the last time Thanksgiving was on the 24th was in 2016!
Happy “ThanksTaking” Everyone! πŸ¦ƒπŸ’•

Jorma Kaukonen Portrait
Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna) met a singer named Janis Joplin at a hootenanny in San Jose, California, in the fall of 1962. During a rehearsal for a show in North Beach in 1964, Jorma started his reel-to-reel tape machine to capture what they were working on. For decades, this recording was the stuff of legend, with inferior, multi-generational transfers making their way through collector’s circles. Now, for the very first time, it is available officially!
The complete album is being released on vinyl exclusively for #RSDBlackFriday tomorrow. To find a store near you, go to RecordStoreDay.com

Paul and Nancy
Paul McCartney & Nancy

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and cherish all the love you get from your family, friends, and your fans! because as you once said, all you need is love ❤️

I have never thanked you, Paul… πŸ˜ƒ
Always thinking, how could this contact possibly be recognized in the mass of millions who love you, but then if not now, then when?!
For I could never LOVE ❤️ any (unmet), human more than I LOVE YOU!!!
60+ years of brotherly love… πŸ₯°
I am forever grateful… πŸŽΆπŸ€


Thanksgiving MEME - gvan42



Arcata, CA Decriminalizes Possession of Psychedelics - Nixon's Crazy "War on Drugs" is OVER! - His Plan Eventually Failed... But Not Before it did Horrible Damage to the USA...

The bill makes it lawful to possess for personal use or facilitated and supported use psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and mescaline, by and with persons 21 years of age or older.

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How to Get Here... Simply Drive over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco and Keep On Truckin... Arcata is on Highway 101 Just Past Eureka... If You End Up in Oregon, You have Gone too Far... 

Dancing Mushroom free clipart by gvan42

Of Course... Psychedelics are Also Decriminalized in Oakland and Santa Cruz... a Much Shorter Drive if You are Starting from the San Francisco Bay Area... 

Map of Arcata, CA


free coloring book art - mushroom by gvan42

When you stop to think about it... Richard Nixon was Insane and He Caused a Lot of Americans to Die in Vietnam... He Campaigned on the Promise of Ending the War in 1968 but he Kept it going Until 1973... That was a Pointless Waste... 

and...

He just wanted an excuse to Arrest Anti Vietnam War Protesters... [and Black Men] so he declared a "War on Drugs" - and At The Same time The CIA was Importing Heroin from the Golden Triangle Of Laos, Thailand and Burma... "Air America" - They made a fortune so the USA Could Finance a Secret war in Cambodia... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_(airline)

Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, including providing support for drug smuggling in Laos.[1][2][3]

Geometric Mushroom Free Clipart by gvan42

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Photographs of Driving Highway 1 from San Francisco to Santa Cruz during high surf conditions... and... Sutro Tower - Twin Peaks SF


photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Cliff House, San Francisco

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Land's End, San Francisco

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Sutro Baths San Francisco

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Java Beach Coffee Shop, San Francisco
photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Inside The "Secret" Garden at Java Beach Coffee Shop, 
San Francisco, CA
photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Magic Train... MUNI
photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
MUNI electric train Judah Street San Francisco

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
St. Mary's viewed from inside Unitarian Church 
at Geary & Franklin

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Ocean Beach at Judah Street

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Sutro Tower, San Francisco

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Yellow Submarine Mural, San Francisco

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Yellow Submarine Mural, San Francisco

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Pigeon Point Lighthouse on Highway 1 near 
Santa Cruz, California

"Ohio" by Neil Young as written in Butano (half way between Santa Cruz and San Francisco on Highway 1) David Crosby Said: It was in a friend of ours’ house in Butano Canyon up in Northern Central California. Neil and I were sat out on the porch and our friend had just come back from the grocery store, where he’d gone to get breakfast, And he had that Life magazine with the picture of the girl and the other kid in a puddle of blood and the question “Why?” written all over her face. Neil and I both looked at it and realised we were now in a country that was shooting its children. It was a shocker for the both of us. The guitar happened to be on the other side of me and he said “Hand me that”, so I gave it to him. And Neil sat there right in front of me and wrote it. It took him maybe ten minutes to write that song, then I got on the phone to Nash and said “Get a studio, right now! And find Stephen and get him there too. We’re coming to Los Angeles now.” And within 24 hours of Neil writing it, we had it recorded.
Read more at http://www.uncut.co.uk/node/6679#DjpR2J5xaWiOST0m.99http://www.uncut.co.uk/neil-young/part-13-david-crosby-neils-bandmate-in-csny-news

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Tide pools and Surf near Santa Cruz California

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Bean Hollow Beach near Santa Cruz California

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Tide Pools near Santa Cruz, CA

The View from the Top of Twin Peaks...
Truly THE place to visit in San Francisco.
photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan


photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan


photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan


photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan


photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Sutro Tower... 
Visible from My Dad's House in Los Gatos... 50 miles away...
Yes, TV Broadcast is possible within "Line of Sight"... So we put a big Yagi Antenna on the roof and enjoyed all the SF Stations clearly.

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Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
Peace Sign Pie Chart
History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

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Military Death Chart USA

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Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.







Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics