Caroling, Life Timeline

0. 1934-1954 Early development led to trip to Europe where finally decide to become an artist

1. 1957 Would Van Gogh get an MFA in Minnesota? Finally I take responsibility for my own education and stop "going to school"
2. Move to SF, North Beach, Richard Brautigan. Beat Poets. The Place. City Lights books. Coit Tower
3. Back to Minnesota reading Kerouac, studying Zen painting
4. 1958 How become an artist in Minnesota? Move to NYC, Abstract Expressionists, Jack Tworkov
5. Back to Minneapolis, must get that degree to survive, singing Pete Seeger songs, doing ink paintings
6. Lived with someone, had art gallery, married him, had child, divorced him, Harry Belafonte
7. 1961 Love me Tender and Do the Twist. Be a stained glass artist for money
8. 1962 Move to NYC with him, separate from him. Do stained glass as art
9. 1964 JFK rock and roll death, All you Need is Love
10. Huxley Doors of Perception and LSD 1, everything ringed and rounded in rainbows
11. Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT)
12. The Serpent Power, Bhgavhad Gita, Upanishads
13. Living in NYC, longing for the sun.
14. Quit smoking after 14 years, I know all about it, don't need it
15. 1965 Move to California, we all live for the sun
16. Leary, drop out, SF, Haight Ashbury, Golden Gate Park
17. 1966. Live at 1090 Page. Make Love Not War
18. LSD 2 - Tweezle Wootz
19. Fillmore, Big Brother, Grateful Dead in GG Park panhandle, Winterland, Both/And, Miles Davis
20. Buckminster Fuller autobiography, I am a Verb
21. 1967 Ouspensky and Gurjieff. Move to Haight and Laguna St.
22. Soleri ArcoSancti
23. What do I really want to do? Stained Glass, Liberating the Handmaiden
24. Be-in GG Park. Last LSD, just trippy illusions. I get better highs on my own, don't need drugs
25. Shire school, an alternative. Camping trip in High Sierras at 10,000 feet
26. 1968 Child needs father, move back to NYC, Staten Island
27. What do I see with my eyes closed? New art evolves
28. 1969 Another child with him, the love child, born on Valentine's day. I'm getting happy at last
29. Casteneda, Whole Earth Catalog, Tipi Book, Domebooks I and II
30. Samuel Weiser metaphysical bookstore, Practical Time Travel, the Power of the the Rays
31. Richmond College, Sociology Alternative Studies teaching
32. 1972 Need not only sun, but cosmic connection in nature solitude, move back to California
33. Monte Rio community refurbishing Monte Rio movie theatre
34. Visit Wheeler Ranch where see people living Whole Earth Catalog
35. Harmony at Forestville, back to the land, build Bump dome to live in while finish Wholeo, the stained glass dome, at Funka Ajar
36. Learn yoga and keep it up for life
37. 1974 finish Wholeo, where is our home?
38. 1975 Visit Rainbow Ridge in Mendocino, can't be constrained by community committment
39. Visit Colorado, Boulder. Hear Buckminster Fuller a second time and see his psychic aspects
40. Climb Mt. Shasta with son and sister. The peak experience. Climb every mountain, follow your dream. Bob Pirsig gives me Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
41. Buy a house in Monte Rio, put down roots
42. 1976 Wholeo dome open to public. Start doing black and white books as way to mass communicate ideas in the dome design
43. Group therapy, dreamwork, spiritual healing, Women Writers group, spiritual community, Madrakara, start keeping journal
44. 1981 Trip to Peru where time traveling personality component initiate leaves me at Machu Picchu. Shocked, who am I? Go into Electronics. Partly of course because Ronald Reagan government of California heralds the end of government support of hippies and education. Stored Wholeo dome
45. 1983 Move to Silicon Valley and work as electronics technician tuning yig filters for anti-ballistic missiles. Get TRS-80 portable computer and learn Basic programming. Become computer programmer
46. Daughter is AFS exchange student to Denmark. Son graduates from UCSB, bicycles across USA, does Marine Biology research on thermal vent tube worms near the Galapagos
47. 1986 Escape military for fiber optic communications and thence to several related jobs as technical writer for computer industry
48. 1988 Purchase Macintosh II computer and begin Zen and the Art of Dividing by Zero as HyperCard stacks. Get SuperCard and can control everything about my computer with visual scripting. Son to New Zealand
49. 1990 Neuromancer by William Gibson. Virtual Reality at Autodesk. Computer Lib by Theodore Nelson
50. 1992 Adventure-loving son killed in sports accident. I begin Lost and Found funky art sketches, scenarios as therapy in apartment. Daughter graduates from NYIT
51. 1994 Interactive TV at Silicon Graphics. Jim and many engineers in department leave to create Netscape. First website sponsored by the Juggling site
52. 1995 writing manuals for ITML, the web language HTML for ITV. A well-funded R&D project with input from international partners, software engineers from around the world, innovators in object oriented multimedia web serving to settop TV, on high end graphics computers is an incredibly creative and stimulating environment
53. 1996 Retire and trip in New Zealand following son's adventures and my own mystical trip
54. 1997 Start Wholeo Online website, continuing life work as web artist. Daughter marries
55. 2001 Sell stocks, leave city
56. 2002 Move to NW Florida at last a semi-secure place between State Forest, rare dune lake and walking distance from State Park on the sea. Finally can see nature every day
57. 2003 Alicia Bay Laurel finds her name in my bibliography and invites me and Wholeo the stained glass dome to the Hippie Museum. So it is coming around again. Horrors of war to oppose and try to get it right this time. Imagine all the people, living ..... Start water sampling dune lake for CBA
58. 2004 Hippie Museum connects me with The Farm. Donate and install Wholeo Dome at The Farm School. Learn video. Daughter becomes a marketing manager
59. 2005 Hurricanes
60. 2006 Grandchildren. See also Looking Back.
61. 2007 Deer Moss or Deer Lichen
62. 2008 Kayak

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