Born a small baby in 1947, my memory of my first years remains a blank. Grade school -yes.
High school-westport,Conn. Army-viet nam 1966/67. Released-in time for the summer of Love, San Francisco, California. Colleges(non-matriculated) U.C. Berkeley, Psychology, Sociology. San Francisco State-Social Psychology. Merritt college, Oakland, Cal. Study-the black panthers movement, social/revolutionary studies.1971 Sai Baba, Whitefield, India.1972 back to Oakland merritt college-study of jewelry design and creation, left for conn. 2 weeks before my schoolmates, symbianese liberation army, kidnaped Patty Hearst. Gem cutter. Silver smith, Gold smith 1972-1985 Westport Conn. Opened glover family jewels 1975 to 1978. Moved to Hawaii as smithy for 6 months, came back to Conn. Snow-bird for three years, selling my wares from Cape Cod to Key West. Lived and had stores in Coconut Grove, lived on a small trimaran, which i re-built..Studied photography at Florida international university, Dade County community college and private tutor for studies in chinese writing and language for 8 yrs.
Acupuncture and massage therapy at A.A.I. in Miami, worked enamel, blew glass, hand built porcelain vases, built a quadmaran,went to China, India, Thailand, Tibet, Morocco, and Sri Lanka over the years. Studied qi gung healing with the red army, got married and am still trucking.
