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Biographical
I'm a longtime personal journalist presently doing a monthly called Irv's Scrapbook by email [request it at irvthom1@comcast.net]. In the past, it was Black Bart Brigade during the counter-culture years and Ripening Seasons as the century turned. I left the commercial world in 1971 and never looked back, so I'm an old hand at a new world, and know quite well how subjective is reality.
Published three books on my own: Innocence Abroad: Adventuring Through Europe at 64 on $100 per Week; Derelict Days...: Sixty Years on the Roadside Path to Enlightenment; and A Seasoned Life: Spring (the first of a seasonal quartet of personal memoir).
In 2007, I turned-on to the Mayan Calendar development, and saw in my prior life some amazing correlations, leading me to believe this is what I came here for. And this RealitySandwich site feels like where I belong.
Oh, yeah . . . I don't do things for money. The Universe, I long ago realized, amply provides. Of course, some would call me a ward of the state. But I can make allowances for the disbeliefs of insecurity.
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I may very well hold the world record for longevity as a hitch-hiker, my road adventures spanning 60 years (1943 - 2003). I regard it as the finest teacher there is, for being done with the passion for control. No control can remain (except the safety valve of refusing a ride), the moment we make the roadside transition from observer to hitch-hiker. It also breaks down this insane passion we've come into for getting as much done as possible in the shortest possible time.
In general, technology serves us poorly in the arts of living well. Yes, it gets things done . . . but it focuses us on getting things done instead of how we do them or what we derive from them. It's like drinking wine to ingest it rather than savor it. Our techno-tools use us, instead of the other way around. Particularly the automobile, which is most brilliantly used as the targeted objective of a wise old hitch-hiker.
