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[ Thursday, May 29, 2008 08:34 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Sounding Off on the Shape of Things to Come.
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Coming Attractions
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Getting Back to Basics:
* Replacing group Victim_hood and dependency with individual initiative and personal responsibility. Health, fitness and nutrition come to mind.
** Think about structured and patterned groups of threes as in the stable and functional milk stool.
*** Enjoy the wonders of nature. Even the best designed, equipped and staffed NICU can not fully replace for the fetus an anatomically intact and physiologically normal maternal placental unit. Think about the vital three.
**** Beware of the false analogy, the always imperfect metaphor, and predictions of the future.
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In the first instance consider the cumulative results and consequences of adults gaining 1% of their body weight and losing 2% of their fittness per year over thirty years.
That is a poor allocation of resources, a bad bet, and a poor investment by any standard.
Second, even the smallest business requires solid financial services, a good accountant, and ongoing legal counsel to grow and prosper. Call this the Donna Summers formula for sustaining success.
Third, evolution has provided a complex and effective human reproductive mechanism to replenish species. But, the results are not alway perfect.
Fourth, communication is a major part of the human social, economic and cultural landscape. However, thoughts and words are far from complete, accurate, and truthful.
Action defines the human condition and the natural world provides both opportunities and pitfalls. Meanwhile, look beyond the hype and the headlines and take a hike.
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[ Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:44 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Summit Dr. Flowers of Spring
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Personals
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Tessa Little of Summit Dr. Brighton, NY is now a four year old perennial flower who is blooming with the best as recorded here by big sister Emma.
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* The season is Spring.
* The occasion is Memorial Week End in western upstate NY.
* Tessa’s profile includes Tag along as in following Emma, riding the addon to her Mom’s bike, and helping her Dad with yard work. She likes to torment Leo the cat, eat yogurt and sweet treats, open packages, and listen to stories read from her growing library collection of books. Her roaming domain includes her shared upstairs bedroom and playroom, the family areas on the main floor , and the basement including the tool storage area. Outside, she is a motion machine drawn to swings suspended from the high branches of the deciduous trees and private spaces shaped by the lower branches of the evergreens.
* Tessa is likes to do hands on activities. She is curious about which bottons to push and thus make handy things like TV remotes, digital cameras, and cell phones magically work.
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[ Sunday, May 25, 2008 13:20 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: The facts on Global Warming
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Book Reviews
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Freeman Dyson, FRS, the Princeton Theoretical Physicist, often writes for the public on science. He has a recent review for the New York Review of Books of two publications on the Posted by: webscribe2 on 05/25 at 01:20 PM
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[ Saturday, May 17, 2008 05:30 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: The Pacific Rim: Going Global in Oregon
Section:
Sons and Daughters
Summary:
* Oregon Roots
** Pacific Rim Travels
*** Family Tales from the Pacific Rim
Main:
Pacific Rim: Oregon Roots and Recall Go Global
This piece is prompted by a the May 2008 special edition issue of National Geographic on China and a single OLLI Wednesday afternoon, class of last week. China was the photo-op for NG and the topic for two hours of political history, statistics and economics on 14 May.
For me, the Pacific Rim and China have long been places of interest and involvement. Given my small town, rural Oregon agricultural and ranching roots, some context is required.
On of my earliest childhood memories is of going with Grandpa Dan from Prairie City to the John Day office of “Doc” Hay thirteen miles down river. Ing Hay was then an unmarried, eighty year old, blind Chinese pulsologist and herbal practitioner who lived, worked, and prospered in the community continuously from 1893 to 1948.
Hay had a large and loyal following among the 5,000 valley residents of Grant Count, many of whom had come because of a gold strike in Canyon City in 1863 along with the mostly independent male Chinese miners from California . The 1879 census included more than 2.500 Chinese who outnumbered caucasians 3:1,
Most of the pioneer family members would seen Dr. Martha Vandervlaught if they were pregnant or the kids needed immunization, or her husband, Dr. Jerry if they needed surgery or had an injury. Otherwise, Doc Hay was available for a low cost visit and a kind of walk in walk out symptom orient treatment scheme. MR. Eastern Oregon, local rancher, Herman Oliver, GPa’s fellow graduate from the 8 grade one classroom Long Creek School was Doc Hay’s patient, patron, and protector. Oliver was the son of Portuguese immigrants; Hay was from today China’s leading economic powerhouse, Guangdong Province and its capital Guangzhu near Canton, the ex-Portuguese colony of Macao, and the harbor of Hong Kong . San Francisco had been the seaport of U.S. immigration entree for both Oliver and Hay. Did their paths also intersect at the Golden Gate?
The Hay office, on a John Day side street, was part of stone building where a variety of oriental goods were sold, labor was hired, and local oriental social networking hub was headquartered. The old military barrack and trading post building had rough Ponderosa pine plank floors, cabinets filled with exotic ceramic jars, and multiple aromatic teas or chi boiling on the wood fired stovet . Doc’s older mentor, business partner and friend, Lung On, who also owned the town’s Ford franchise, was usually sitting in the corner for some conversation in Cantonese and reading a chinese language newspaper between consultations. As I recall, tea was the prescription and the cure for Grandpa’s symptoms. Payment may have been in gold or silver coin
When the office and abandoned building was converted to the Kam Wah Chung Museum twenty years after Hay’s death, over 500 herbal remedies were recovered , including a stash of opium and $23,,000 in uncashed patient payment checks.
Years later, in San Francisco beginning in the 5Os, first and second Corps Viet Nam , Kowloon, Hong Kong in 67-68, or Taipai in 69, I would have an instant odor induced recall and flashback experience whenever I explored the local herbal medicine shops. I do not think it was opium or ephedrine induced.
Even in battle zone Viet Nam, the shops were a prominent part of every town’s freewheeling commerce. They were always run and supplied by ethic Chinese who had access to sources inside China and according to U.S. intelligence, opium from the 350,000 sq, km. war lord and Strong tribal area known as “Golden Triangle” that includes contiguous, rugged, jungle mountain areas northern Burma, Viet Nam, Thailand,and Laos that are relatively isolated from the major population, administrative, trading and commercial centers.
Other family members have had their own personal Pacific Rim experiences.
* Doug has been a volunteer “Conversation Partner” for asian post doctoral students at UCDavis from Myanmar, Japan, and China. Today, 40 % of the enrolled UCD freshman class is mostly first and second generation Asian.
* Brighton daughter Erika, a UCD science graduate was an English as a second language contract instructor at Nanjing Agricultural University for one year in the ‘90s. Her family visitor was younger sister, Tiffany.
* Nephew Brian, an AF Miliary Academy graduate and F-16 Falcon fighter pilot has a B.S minor in Chinese and was part of a cadet group that was hosted for a summer visit to Taiwan by the Taiwanese Air Force. He has also had a one year posting in South Korea.
* Daughter- in-law Rebecca has traveled in modern day Viet Nam and is familiar with working conditions there for contract firms who supply the SF based Gap.
* Son Damon in the San Francisco office of the international law firm, DuaneMorris HQed in Philadelphia, has recently opened a new office in Singapore with a branches in Hanoi and Ho Chi Min City.
Bottom line. Oregon has long been involved with the China Trade and the Pacific Rim.
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[ Friday, May 16, 2008 08:41 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Billy and the Bike: A Memoire of Deschutes Country
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Personals
Summary:
Coming of Age Rites of Passage in the west of the 50s
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While exploring my expanding world as a curious ten year old in the summer of 1950 , I had CO-conspirators. We all lived the small safe central Oregon town of Redmond along the Deschutes River in lee the Three Sisters lava peaks of the central Oregon Cascade mountain range. My mate was my best friend Billy. He had a glint in his eye, a gloss to his rusty hair, and loads of high energy GO to his gait. He was part Welch.
Billy was clearly an athlete at an early age. He was quick, fearless, never tired, and enjoyed being at the center of the action. Well muscled, short coupled, and low to ground, he had a Strong neck that supported a symmetrical head, a slightly dished nose, small ears, long eye lashes and a pixie like face. Together, we would chase wild mustangs on BLM sagebrush benchlands, fish for rainbow trout in the waters below the falls or behind beaver dams, visit Paiute Warm Spring Native American obsidian arrowhead sites, and follow the deer grooved game trails to where every they might lead. Little did we know ,or care, that the Pathfinder, John Charles Fremont of the Corp of Topographical Engineers, had surveyed and journaled the area along the Dalles to California corridor on horseback in the fall of 1843 during his second expedition. One of his party was a young Wasco Indian tribal youth who would return after to Chinook country as a Warm Springs leader after his education in the east. He was called Billy Chinook.
However, our adventures were partially informed from local sources. One was the summer book reading list for kids at the local Carnegie funded public library. Walter Farley’s Black Beauty was on the list. Part of the pleasure of that place was to see the stars add up behind your name on the bulletin board as each book was checked out and mostly read. The librarians seemed to have a sense of the kind of books that mattered most to us. Adventure and discovery stories fit well. My fourth grade teacher, Mrs. VanNice , may have conspired with the librarians. Second, our adventures, both real and imagined were supplemented by the Saturday matinee at the Odem movie theater where the serial was as likely to feature Roy Rogers and his palomino horse Trigger as not. After the popcorn fueled bad guy chase and roundup, it was time to hit the bar next door for some phosphate refreshment. We were a one soda fountain town.
Buck, the hired man was another enabling adult. He was from a ranch in Oklahoma where the grass was green and lush, and he seemed knew the trick of raising kids. ” Put them on the right horse, and give them free rein” was his motto. Like Billy, Buck had reddish hair, sported appropriate footwear and exuded a bit of the dare. His faded blue jeans matched his eyes and fit the lean arch of his lower frame like a second skin. Buck skin groves were holstered at the ready is a soft loop on convenient right side of his thick black strap leather belt.
Both Billy and Buck were disappointed by my July birthday present that year. Dad thought it was time for my first bike and that bike changed everything. I was rapidly transitioning during my teen years from single horse power to pedal pushing to the internal combustion engine.
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[ Thursday, May 15, 2008 13:04 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Memory Lane: Kodak Moments in Carmel at Mission Ranch
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Personals
Summary:
“Make My Weekend” : A Classic Black and White Colorful Kodak Moments at the Mission Ranch, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.
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The fall of 2007 offered an opportunity for the Rochester branch of the family to gather back in northern California with old and new friends, scattered members of the tribe, members of the San Jose Welch family, and son Damon’s buddies from the Empire State, “The City”, and Santa Rosa in Sonoma County for some golf, and—- oh yes, a wedding.
For the Fisks, it was the first formal family wedding in more than thirty-five years.
It was kind of a return to the 1820-1850 Mexican Californio era. The Mission of Junipera Serra was a short hike up the Valley of the Carmel River. Down river, a protected wetland seeped into the Pacific Ocean at a sandy cove just to the west of the fenced Ranch grounds where sheep grazed.
We bunked out in the restored and plumbed ranch out building. Chuck wagon grub and Strong coffee brewed by the grandsons of former vaqueros was available at the cook house at the first light. Horses were stabled on rancheros next to the golf course in Carmel Valley.
The local sights included cypress rimmed pristine beaches and cliffs festooned with native plants and touring plein aire artists. The marine marshes were protected and populated with birds, bugs and aquatic species that could warm the heart of Rachel Carson. Tide pools worthy of attention from Steinbeck and “Doc” Rickets, and shops to tempt the most reticent credit card holder complimented the scene.
A quick drive away was Monterrey, Cannery Row, calamari cuisine, and the historic presidio.
But, the weekend belonged to Rebecca Welch and son Damon.
One of their special guest was 94 year old Grandma Ruth Lear from Oregon who made the gathering a true four generation family event. She jetted in from Corvallis for the Friday evening Groom’s Dinner. The next day it was time for one on one conversation with al the kids, before the sunny early afternoon outdoor wedding, the reception, the wedding dinner, and the following fandango. She did not miss a beat or a photo op.
At 2230 it was time for the younger generation to load into the bus and head out for the Boar’s Breath, a cool basement jazz piano bar in the center of town
The following day it was a burrito BBQ on the beach, a bracing dip in the surf, and final farewell hugs all around.
Here, Ruth is escorted to the beach by two of her eight grandchildren, Damon Fisk from San Francisco, and Jordan Liebbrandt from Portland. She peacefully died recently in the quiet company of family. Her obituary is in the Memorial Week End edition of the Corvallis Gazette.
At the end of the weekend, the bride and groom slipped away to catch a flight to find some rest and privacy in the warm azure blue and bright white of the Aegean Sea, the Greek Isles, and Crete..
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