January 11, 1921 – November 10, 2013
Pops: son, brother, friend, student, naval officer, professor, uncle, husband, father, grandfather. And now, blithe spirit. The greatest thing you’ll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return
D is for Dad
Pops, posing on the Central Freeway, San Francisco, CA. Honestly, here’s what I remember. I remember us driving along the freeway, heading into San Francisco, around about the point where Interstate 80, the Bayshore Freeway, branches off due west and into central San Francisco. I remember us thinking somehow that this
B is for Buddha
Buddha in Bhumisparsa Mudra, Old Sukhothai, Thailand Buddha, providing me positive role modeling since the late 1990s. This is a bona fide Polaroid transfer I did of a bona fide analog film slide I took with an actual, physical film camera in 1997, on my beloved’s and my “sweetiemoon.” (That’s