how she saw things 2

 

 

 I take a lot of pictures but very few of myself – these pics were taken by my Japanese friend in 2007.

Here I am at Depoe Bay on the coast:

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On the coast by Linclon City:

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On the beach near Charleston, Oregon:

I’ve been thinking of shaving – here in these pics I was clean shaven but I grew back a goatee last year.  A few entries ago, I wrote that I was thinking of shaving; what did the readers think?  The opinions were about equal, for and against.  Just about that time, my skin broke out beneath the beard and I shelved the plan.  If someone had told me when I was 14 that my skin would be breaking out all my life, I might have then just said fuck it and jumped off the roof – in the early high school days, I had acne pretty bad and hated it.

Glasses, acne, not a jock – public high school sucked for me.

Then my parents died when I was 15 and I went to private schools.  The acne didn’t go away… but over the years. it faded and while it still drops in for a visit, it’s not as bad as it once was.

 

High school daze:

1980

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16 at the boarding school I went to:

1978

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45 at Crooked River Gorge in 2007:

Misc. pictures…

 

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