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My Youth |
 During
my graduate school days at U.C.L.A, around 1968-1970. I am wearing one of the first shirts
that I tailored for myself. Significantly, it was a cloth that I fondly remembered as
being like a shirt my dad had when I was a child. I lived there with my then wife Linda
LaMonte on Linnie Canal, in Venice, California. You may recognize the scene because it
appears in many TV shows and movies. It was a hippie area, run-down, cheap, exciting,
marvelous. We were four blocks from the beach. |
 I
am around 24 or so in this photo, at a friend's ranch in northern California. My childhood
affinity with cowboys is still with me. |
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This was a picture taken about 1974. I had
just had accepted for publication a paper on my research on dream incubation. I
entertained a self-image of a spiritual cowboy, kind of an American shaman. The hat was
purchased in Texas, then reshaped to resemble the dream tent. This picture was that which appeared alongside my bio when the dream incubation article appeared in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology in 1976. |
Will I ever outgrow the cowboy mystique? Here I am at 53, out in my brother's territory in rural Oregon. He's letting me try to shoot his guns. It's not easy to keep the holster from falling down and pulling my pants with it. |
My
Early Childhood