(That I recognized at the time and occasionally still think about.)<\/p>\n
Seeing the Go Go’s in their heyday<\/p>\n
Seeing The Grateful Dead at Autzen<\/p>\n
Having children (too late)<\/p>\n
Learning Spanish (not too late)<\/p>\n
Shannon<\/p>\n
Taking a newspaper job on Ketchikan Island<\/p>\n
Taking a newspaper job in Hood River or The Dalles<\/p>\n
Dropping acid before writing the Vortex book<\/p>\n
Meeting the cryptic rain writer<\/p>\n
Completing the Alaska Highway (I stopped 100 miles short)<\/p>\n
Helping an illiterate man who needed help filling out a form that could prove his existence<\/p>\n
Providing a man limping along the sidewalk help (I knew him)<\/p>\n
Starting a coastal magazine<\/p>\n
Getting into film making<\/p>\n
Amity<\/p>\n
Going out for soccer in high school<\/p>\n
Taking auto shop in high school<\/p>\n
Learning how to play a guitar solo<\/p>\n
Learning how to play the harmonica<\/p>\n
Taking Port Orford job 25 years ago<\/p>\n
Pushing the rain book to a national publisher<\/p>\n
Pursuing archaeology as a course of college study<\/p>\n
Giving a TED Talk on rain (it was booked)<\/p>\n
Pushing the rain book to a national audience<\/p>\n
Judy<\/p>\n
Giving a presentation on the spirituality of the ocean at the national Unitarian conference<\/p>\n
(If you found this post enjoyable, thought provoking or enlightening, please consider supporting a writer at work by making a financial contribution to this blog or by purchasing an NSP book.) <\/i><\/p>\n\n (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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3702,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions\/3702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}