| In Mountain Ave. house with '63 Fender Telecaster I had since age 21, recently stolen along with my van. Van was found, guitar wasn't. The mandolin, an early-1920s Gibson, still lives with me |
| Early 1990s: Poker with Carl Herzig and toddler/pokershark Liana, two of my absolute bestest people |
| Publicity blurb for Doctor Syntax, novel purchased and produced by Vintage Books under their Black Lizard noir imprint, 1990. Things happened, editors moved as they often do in publishing, and Capra Press ended up with the rights. Their edition came out in 1991 |
At a signing/reading for Doctor Syntax, Earthling Bookstore, 1991
| Irene and Jam Herzig at Santa Claus Lane beach, around the corner from the north seawall |
Trip with Janni to Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, 1991 |
| Michael Lorimer, close family friend since childhood and extraordinary classical guitarist, at the memorial for his father Mike Lorimer (actually Walter M., but nobody called him that) at the SB riviera home of Mike and Annie Lorimer. The latter was my mom's best friend, and is at the time of this writing in her nineties; I visit her every week. |
| Vietnamese Zen monk and my teacher Thich Nhat Hanh performing the ceremony in which I and several others that year were ordained as lay practitioners in his monastic order. August 30, 2002 |
| July 24 1993: Jan Ingram and Liana Herzig and birthday cupcakes |
| Surfing legend Rabbit Kekai in contest organizers' tent for 1997 Pipeline Masters, north shore, O'ahu; MP sitting in background, happily spectating on a rainy morning; next photo, the object of spetating: Pipe rainy with size |
| More photos of North Shore trip; much gratitude to Janni for giving up one of our Christmas celebrations in Hana, Maui, to make this dream of mine possible. Below, on the road to K'aena Point |
| Janni at Ka'ena Point with lave scrub and rugged volcanic Waianae range in background |
| Every year until my cousin Marshall's passing in 2016, he, my cousin Bert, sister Francie and I would get together somewhere on the west coast for a Cousin Convergence of several days, in which we would play medieval, renaissance and baroque music on recorders and eat at Italian restauraunts. This year, July of 2000, we met in Santa Cruz and ate at Avanti every night because we've found nothing better anywhere |
| Marshall and Bert getting medieval with their recorders. Check out those same two flanking me and my mom fifty years earlier |
| Christmas 2001 on Padre Street, with Janni, Marshall, F&G, and a very young and energetic Selam |
My niece Selam, back in Washington State on a soccer day, 2001
| This picture would be identical in any summer over the past several decades: Carl Herzig and I talking about everything and nothing at Bates beach around the corner from Rincon, with Stella on camera ... and, over the years, their kids Liana, Jam and/or Irene playing in the sand or ocean or with us: one of the most constant and nurturing rituals of our lives |
