That's my father in the middle. He had two brothers and two sisters. His youngest sister had her 90th birthday in December. They all grew up in Minnesota.
Happy Birthday, Dad!
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A selection of my drawings and paintings from 1966-2008
Stecher descendants (the photos were identified by my grandfather)
The YouTube titles are "42 years: a book of changes" and "Retrospective 1966-2008"
Places I visit when I can
- Alive On All Channels
- Burning Silo / Journey to the Center
- Chatoyance
- Consent of the Networked
- Crashingly Beautiful
- Dharma Bums
- Digital Doorway
- hermit's thatch
- Ici Graulhet
- In A Dark Time
- Interim Arrangements
- Mole
- One Word
- Out of the Lotus
- Outside The Windows
- RConversation
- Roundtop Ruminations
- Sacred Shadow, Sacred Ground
- Seeking Spirit
- Solitary Walker
- Something Beautiful
- synch-ro-ni-zing
- The Goat That Wrote
- The Passionate Transitory
- The Sandbox
- The White House
- Turnstone
- Velveteen Rabbi
- Vulture Cafe
- Whiskey River
- Windy Skies
- wood s lot
- words and silence
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2 comments:
what a good looking man! It's so great when we can look at these old photographs and see into the lives of the ones we sprang from. Just a moment in time, and yet....
xo
A lovely remembrance of your father.
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