Missed Opportunities
(That I recognized at the time and occasionally still think about.)
Seeing the Go Go’s in their heyday
Seeing The Grateful Dead at Autzen
Having children (too late)
Learning Spanish (not too late)
Shannon
Taking a newspaper job on Ketchikan Island
Taking a newspaper job in Hood River or The Dalles
Dropping acid before writing the Vortex book
Meeting the cryptic rain writer
Completing the Alaska Highway (I stopped 100 miles short)
Helping an illiterate man who needed help filling out a form that could prove his existence
Providing a man limping along the sidewalk help (I knew him)
Starting a coastal magazine
Getting into film making
Amity
Going out for soccer in high school
Taking auto shop in high school
Learning how to play a guitar solo
Learning how to play the harmonica
Taking Port Orford job 25 years ago
Pushing the rain book to a national publisher
Pursuing archaeology as a course of college study
Giving a TED Talk on rain (it was booked)
Pushing the rain book to a national audience
Judy
Giving a presentation on the spirituality of the ocean at the national Unitarian conference
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