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The picture gallery that follows may help to explain the type of art you found in the preceding pages you’ve looked at earlier. These are little chunks of my life captured with various cameras I’ve owned. By the way the first camera I owned was one I bought at age 11. I hired out to cut lawns of neighbors at $.35 a lawn. It took some time to save up the $6, but I used it until it was stolen the first night I was in the army during the Korean War. I quickly replaced it and managed to always have one in the years afterwards.

For most of my life after maturity was spent in admiration of Eastern meditation and spirituality. I did study the martial arts of Akido and the various steps and arm movements of Tai Chi. Then I read the works of Lao Tzu and his Tao philosophy appealed to me and I’ve believed in the way of the path. One doesn’t merely “walk” the path but become the path.

When I first got on the Internet I took the name of Quester for purposes of entering discussion groups and chat rooms. The idea of being a quester for wisdom and truth defined my real character and I’ve signed myself that ever since. Yes, I am always looking and comfortable being a Quester.

Let’s start with a little comedy.

Does this fellow look like a Quester or what?
And of course I’m sure you can tell this isn’t one of my baby pictures.

However, this one was done when I was fifteen.

This was the house on five acres in Grandville

where I lived on the outskirts of Grand Rapids, Michigan when I was in junior and senior high school. We grew strawberries harvested in summer. I sold them door to door and learned a lot about people.

Back at the end of World War II, we had those five acres to play on so it wasn’t all work.

What I really loved were those wooden skiis.

Don’t you love those “FIRST” things that happen in your life?

Maureen B. was my first girl-friend from 6th to 10th grade. We did everything together until she went off on the back of a Triumph motorcycle and spent a weekend with the fellow. At that point I walked in other pastures.

Selling strawberries door-to-door was what got me my first and second cars.

First bow-tie?

Steve and Ernie both were interested in flying like I was and became my best friends. A few years after this picture Steve and I swapped girl-friends and married them.

In high school I joined the CAP(Civilian Air Patrol) and had the dream of becoming an Air Force pilot. The book I read was called God Was My Co-pilot

I also had a friend with a 1947 Taylorcraft that we could land in his farm pasture.

One time my friends and I went off to a summer camp at Selfrige Air Force Base to learn parachute packing and some flying skills.

We even stood a little guard duty.

My biggest thrill was getting behind the wheel of a twin-motored plane called an AT-11 trainer.

Then I finally got out of high school.

This was Janice who came down from Grand Rapids for Homecoming. She would later marry Steve who became a navy pilot and then flew for a commercial airline. By the way I used that same suitcase with the big W on the side to hitchhike to California and Hollywood. While in Long Beach walking a sidewalk in front of a theater, I was part of a group being photographed for a Hollywood movie. So I was in the movies by 1950. I did the whole trip on $18. It did require me to “ride-the-rails” like a hobo coming back part of the way through California, Arizona, and New Mexico.…

On double-dates she used to be in the backseat with Steve. Now she came up front with me.

This was my second car, a ‘41Chysler convertible. We married in ’52. Just before we married I acted in a play on stage in Kalamazoo. The play was Mr. Roberts

Now I was married and also a college grad who was immediately drafted into the Korean War

We learned to dig trenches.

Playing anti-aircraft gunner in the desert with my buddy Eugene Shanks.

Those shells go to this monster gun.

Here I am in the trenches.

My sixth grade class.

In 1955 after getting out of the army and doing a session of summer school at Columbia University in New York city, I didn’t like big city living and went back to El Paso, Texas for my first teaching position for the paltry sum of $2900. Six months later I was offered $10,000 to go to Boston as a natural gas engineer and couldn’t resist the offer.

My Hawaiian-Chinese friend as she graduates nurses training.

She comes to the mainland for advance training and to tell me I should have waited and married her. She claimed she would have made me a millionaire. Little did I expect her words to come true for one who would marry her. She has done what she claimed she could do except one word should have been added…multi-!

The job on the East Coast came to an end for us when wife got pregnant. We moved to Tucson.

My mother, dad, and new little sister came down for a visit. Here I am teaching at 25. .

Talk about posing.

This is a good reason for marriage.

The first child is always a little spoiled, right?

My first painting in Tucson.

Nothing like having a little help from my new loveable daughter.

My first school in Tucson was Wakefield Junior High where I started their first fencing club.

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