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It's Good to UNPLUG and Go Sit Quietly in the Warm California Sunshine. Listening to the Geese at the Farm next door... and the Frogs... and the Guys Chainsawing Firewood...

This is Called "ME TIME." Observing the Vineyards, the Trees, The Little Chirping Birds... And Everyone Loves The Sound of a Harley in the Distance... 

It's all Just Grist for the Mill. At First, I was Angered about having to Listen to The Annoying Sound of an Internal Combustion Engine but then... I remembered days when I was Chainsawing Firewood for My Own Wood Burning Stove in My Own House in Virginia. While Tripping on Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Seeds... We went out to Mountains near the EPIC Shenandoah Valley... and Stopped at Luray Caverns... and took a Rubber Life Raft Ride down the Shenandoah River past Harper's Ferry and Continuing Down the Potomac... We say a Couple of Men Fishing in a Homemade Boat coustructed out of a single sheet of plywood. Saw Off a foot on each side, turn them up and nail 'em in place, Caulk and You Have a Boat... Harper's Ferry is Where John Brown Had a Civil War Battle. It had a Factory that MADE RIFLES. The North was able to Shoot Farther with Rifles than the South could using Muskets. A Northern Soldier could stand OUT of Range and Kill the Enemy. Technology Helped the North Win the Civil War.

As I Walked Down Stream past the Vineyards, I Noticed an Orange Tree, Fully Loaded with Ripe Fruit. We Eat Oranges Every Day Here... After all, They are Very Cheap at the Farmers Market. On the TV I Noticed that "Those People Over There Were Behaving Crazy" so I Changed the Channel... to Classic Rock Music Choice... It's True that What Trump and His Band of Flying Monkeys Have Almost No Effect on My Life... Unless they Bankrupt The US Economy and Cause Global Collapse... Personally, I'm on Medicare (65 Years Old) and so If The rest of the Country Embraces Improved Obamacare or Medicare For All, I'm Not Effected. Certainly TrumpCare Would be a Disaster... Millions of People Dying Young... I DO Care that Social Security and Medicare are Under Attack by Trump's Evil Minions. I DO Care that They are Destroying the Environment and Drinking Water Could Become Poisonous... One of My Care Givers Lives Near McClellan Air Force Base and Everyone is Told to NOT DRINK THE WATER that comes out of the Tap... However, they still Shower in Toxic Waste... and That's Horrible... I DO Care that Trump is ANTI-Choice and Plans to Overturn Roe v Wade and Force Women to Give Birth to Unwanted Babies... "It's Back to The Coat Hanger" with Evil Brat Kava Kava Noogie and the Just-Us of the SCOTUS.

Digital Lotus Card for sale... 

Two Sided Card... Unfold and Thumbtack it to Your Wall for an Instant Visual Mantra... Just Look at it and You are Blessed With Bliss!
Click on the Picture to see the Back Side Art!

Digital Lotus Card
Digital Lotus Card
by gregvan

Original Art For Sale...
and there is a different picture on the back of the Greeting Card... a Rainbow Spiral...

Scientology: The "E-Meter" is Fundamentally Bogus. It is Based on "Lie Detector" Technology... a Machine that is NOT Admissible in Court.

And yet, Lie Detectors are often used for Job Interviews... Most Famously at the NSA... They want to KNOW if you have any Secrets to Hide and if you are vulnerable to Blackmail. For Example: A gay friend of mine was an NSA employee. They Plugged him in and asked him Questions about being a homosexual. He said Yes, and was "Out of the Closet" and they Hired him. Because no one could blackmail him by threatening to Expose his Secret. 

However, basing a Religion on the "E-Meter" is Flawed. Anyone can learn how to fool a Lie Detector Test. I believe that Scientology is mostly about enriching L. Ron Hubbard and his Close Circle of Followers. People Pay Money to Learn how to Get Clear. A LOT of Money... Especially to go on Boat Rides... and the Higher Tests Basically Cost Everything the Sucker Has and Everything they can Beg or Borrow... They do not encourage Stealing to pay for enlightenment but... 

DrugFreeWorld.org is their Website designed to Spread their Views about Using Drugs... It's an interesting website... Their basic belief is DON'T TAKE DRUGS, Do Scientology Instead. 

Madaket Ferry on Humboldt Bay on the Kinetic Sculpture Race Day Fully Loaded with Passengers. Many Photographs of The Kinetic Sculptures AND Carson Mansion in Eureka, California - Silhouette


Madaket Ferry Eureka California Humboldt Bay
Madaket Ferryboat fully loaded on race day
Kinetic Sculpture Race - Whimsical Art Bicycles that travel over Streets, Sand and Water FOR THE GLORY! Eureka, Arcata and Ferndale in Humboldt County, California
Kinetic Sculpture

Kinetic Sculpture Race - Whimsical Art Bicycles that travel over Streets, Sand and Water FOR THE GLORY! Eureka, Arcata and Ferndale in Humboldt County, California
Kinetic Sculpture

Kinetic Sculpture Race - Whimsical Art Bicycles that travel over Streets, Sand and Water FOR THE GLORY! Eureka, Arcata and Ferndale in Humboldt County, California
Kinetic Sculpture

Kinetic Sculpture Race - Whimsical Art Bicycles that travel over Streets, Sand and Water FOR THE GLORY! Eureka, Arcata and Ferndale in Humboldt County, California
Kinetic Sculpture

Kinetic Sculpture Race - Whimsical Art Bicycles that travel over Streets, Sand and Water FOR THE GLORY! Eureka, Arcata and Ferndale in Humboldt County, California
Kinetic Sculpture
Kinetic Sculpture Race - Whimsical Art Bicycles that travel over Streets, Sand and Water FOR THE GLORY! Eureka, Arcata and Ferndale in Humboldt County, California
Kinetic Sculpture

Kinetic Sculpture Race - Whimsical Art Bicycles that travel over Streets, Sand and Water FOR THE GLORY! Eureka, Arcata and Ferndale in Humboldt County, California
Kinetic Sculpture at the College of the Redwoods...
Carson Mansion Eureka, California Silhouette
Carson Mansion, Eureka, California

Carson Mansion Eureka, California Silhouette
Carson Mansion, Eureka, California

Inflatable Boat ride in Santa Cruz. The Butterfly Trees. The Wharf at Main beach. Steamer's Lane and the Lighthouse surfing museum.

Dad bought an inflatable boat that looked like a canoe from an advertisement in the back of a magazine. It had a sail. Dad and I went down the coast from Santa Cruz going south. We went out beyond the waves and sailed in the open ocean. It was a big adventure for me as a young child. Then we wiped out going thru the waves to the beach. Got Rolled.

Mom and I went to the butterfly trees. It had a grove of eucalyptus trees literally covered with Monarch Butterflies. This grove causes a peaceful easy feeling... most of the butterflies stay motionless while a tiny number flittered back and forth. http://www.santacruz.org/monarch-butterflies

We enjoyed going to the Wharf. At the very end sea lions and seals live underneath. They are really large beasts. Walk to the end of the pier and there are viewing openings so people can watch them.
I've always enjoyed the restaurants that served us clam chowder and crab louis. I could look out the window and see people surfing near the lighthouse in Steamers Lane. Mom told me that Grandpa dove off the very end of the Wharf and swam back to the main beach. I'm not sure why he did that but I guess it was just to see if he could...

Dad and I went on a deep sea fishing boat run by the Stagnaro family. He got seasick and didn't have a good time. We boarded the boat on the Wharf. I don't recall if we caught any fish but it was really fun to be way out in the ocean.

There is a surfing museum in the lighthouse and you can watch the surfers up close from the top of the cliffs. I was always amazed that people could walk over the rocks at the end of the staircase while holding a surfboard... Truly and acrobatic miracle...

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

Humboldt County California - Hills and Stairs University

 Sunset over Humboldt Bay.

 Bench on campus "Hills and Stairs University" a great place to catch your breath before the climb to Founder's Hall for class.



 Bicycle Parking behind the Music Building.

 CCAT electricity generator system. Convert human fat to 12 VDC.

 Birds in the Swamp in King Salmon.

 Blue Lake Casino outbuilding.

 Humboldt Folklife Festival. A Yearly free concert in Blue Lake.

 Freight Boat leaving Humboldt Bay. Gas or Oil.

 Curved wake of boat as it enters King Salmon.

 Bear Sculpture on Highway 101.

 Chalk Drawing on Campus HSU Arcata.

 By the PG&E power plant on Humboldt Bay.

 Founder's Hall HSU.

 Birds in Arcata.

 Flyway rest stop.

Great Tile Art on campus.


 Gorda Escarpment. The Big Earthquake Center.

 In the woods...

 Hammond Trail. Viewing Trinidad.

 Road construction on Highway 299 from Arcata to Redding.
Every Summer... Long delays...

 HSU Campus. Clock Tower.

 Logging Truck at the rest stop on 299 at the top of the first hill. A great place to see the ocean.

 Mount Saint Mercy retreat in the Mateel River Area.

 HSU Bookstore. A plywood lumberjack to stand behind for a photo.

 Sculpture on Broadway.


 Stairs on campus.
 Amazing HUMCO plants.

Sculpture at a doctor's office.

Trinity River in Hoopa, CA

Sunset over Humboldt Bay with a Kayaker.

Emma the cat at home.

Children's climbing toy at the Library.

Two sided mural in Humboldt County Library.
The orange painting is viewed from the Children's reading room and the green painting is viewed from the other side. It's painted on glass so you can see thru.
The orange paintings are dark and sinister while the green side is happy joy joy.
The Sword in the Stone... The Mad King.

Convert Human Fat into Electricity.
Built by the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology at Humboldt State University.


Kinetic Sculpture Race at the school in Manila, CA.
 June Moxon's Shoe...

Kinetic Shark.

Pirate Ship

Gumball Machine.

Pushing Wile E Coyote up the Sand Dune...

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1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

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How To Remove Smoke from Indoor Air. Tape a Filter to a Box Fan. During Wildfire Season the Air Indoors is Bad to Breathe...


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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) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...


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

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

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Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics