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In the beginning …

If this was an autobiography it would probably begin with my birth and continue in a linear fashion. But since I only learned the true details of my birth and my biological family in my 78th year my perspective has changed.

Now it’s time for me to let my memories of special people, places, adventures and experiences escape and fly free – with each piece of the puzzle in no particular chronological order because that’s how my life has unfolded anyway. Beginnings, ends. Ends and beginnings, with a lot going on in-between.

Intent

A few seconds before he slid off his bar stool and melted into the floor with a smile my late friend George Van Noy uttered these words, “Life is a process of communication.” The bar was called ‘Tom’s Around the World in 80 Beers’ and was in Santa Monica Canyon. It was the early-60s and I was the youngest and newest member of the small, eclectic group of student/surfers who lived on Topanga Beach in Malibu, California. Close enough to UCLA (where they were in their senior year) and Santa Monica City College (where I was in my freshman year).

George’s words stuck with me through the ups and downs of the following years and while thinking about them years later I suddenly realized that the essence of communication is intent.

So first we have communication. Communication between people, between ideas, between other animals and nature, and communication with ourselves and with God – or however we want or need or fail to express our belief in the Creator and the Created. Intention is at the core of how and what we communicate.

To a large extent, this project is communication with myself, you and creation. And my intent is to revisit some of the amazing people and adventures I’ve experienced over the past 80 years. A few of them will involve what I can only describe as extrasensory or spiritual experiences that I have learned to accept without trying to explain or justify them. They are simply parts of my life and I make no claims to being anything special because of them … or to insist that anyone else accepts my realities.

Thank you for joining me.