Doug Oberst:  

usually do. It was a beautiful early Sept. morning with really nice light, so for me that means looking for that light and interesting compositions with camera in hand, it's just what I do. Keep in mind that if you do so you may very likely be approached by airport security to check you out. Except of course if you use a cellphone camera, then you automatically become invisible to everyone. I was actually approached by random people, in effect asking what I was doing. But I have no problem with that, I have nothing to hide. It just demonstrates it's a different world now and thank God I don't look Middle Eastern. The airport was quiet that morning with few people present, people in the process of transporting themselves somewhere for the betterment of jobs, vacations, lives, loves, hopes and dreams. I hope their journey went well for them! And I hope life is good for you and that hope, dreams and happiness are still part of all our lives! Best of luck in 2018! UPDATE: 7/10/18 "I went to a garden party to reminisce and share memories with my old friends." Rick Nelson lyrics So it was the 53rd reunion party of the first 4yr graduating class of 1965 of EV! If you couldn't make it, I'm sorry and we missed you. It was great fun, good memories seeing friends from that early period of our lives. One of my objectives was to take plenty people photos, but I failed because I was talking too much. But there are a few posted with some captions. It seems I've come to the end of my allotted word space on this website, which was an objective. Maybe I should rethink some questionable previous posts. It's been nice talking to you all! UPDATE 7/13/18 So I'm back! I just deleted some of the previous word salads. I felt a little boxed in and didn't like it. Man there was some crazy stuff there, I can't remember what I was on when I wrote that stuff but it must have been good. Anyway I did want to say more about the reunion. It was a good experience, I enjoyed it. Kind of like back to the future when everyone is old, including yourself, a little freaky. Everyone was quite nice and I appreciate that. I thought Sherrie Pendley did a fantastic job organizing everything. Thanks Sherrie. When talking with Zane he spoke of Joe Goldberg who I didn't know much about after graduation, but googled him when I got home. Wow what a mark he left on the world, if your not familiar you may want to do that. There are pages of information about his achievements as a artist, very extraordinary! The man kicked ass in the art community and left his mark forever. Maybe the most successful person to graduate from EV ever, don't quote me on that though. Unfortunately he died in a car crash in eastern Wa. last Dec. And he was and is mourned by his significant other, friends and family and the art community at large. Full Respect to you Joe, you done good! Very good and represented yourself in the best possible way. Being able to express your talent to the world and have the world hold it in high regard, to me that is the ultimate successful life. You left the world a better place because of it. Really excellent! Rest in peace Joe! Also learned of Marne's ( Marne Marcus) tragic life. Very personal to me, he was a friend, a very good friend but I lost contact with him after 1966/7 I think. Would have been great to see him there at the reunion and say," Hey man so good to see you again!" I tried to find something about him on the internet, nothing except one small shred of information and a connection. To a Washington state poet named Robert Sund, who was associated with U 0f W. In some of his archives, he's now dead, that reside at the U, his name is mentioned by Sund. There aren't too many men with that name, Marne, who also appreciated good poetic verse and hung around the U. The first time I ever heard the name Bob Dylan, it came out of Marne's mouth, he was a huge fan. Dylan spoke to him directly with his ideas about social inequity which seemed to effect him maybe more than other people, and Marne admired his word poetry abilities. So they knew each other at some point, and Sund referenced it. If there is one word to describe Marne he was extremely astute, meaning very perceptive, mentally adroit, intelligent, with a great sense of humor! If you knew Marne then you know what I'm talking about. Which makes this all the more disturbing and tragic. So that's all the info I could find about Marne, a man lives and dies with virtually no trace left behind about his existence. That's not right, not at all. So this is my attempt to leave some information that says yes he did exist and yes he had an impact on me and others around him. Rest in Peace Marne! You deserved much better than this, does anyone deserve that ending to their life? I don't think so. Robert Sund sounds like he was a cool dude, you should check out some of his poetry, he appears to be a man who enjoyed the simple pleasures in life. I can see why the possible connection, maybe a Dylan aspect about him, living life his way regardless of what others may have thought. Obviously Marne lost his way at some point. The rumor is that Marne died of drugs, heroin I'm told, most likely in the U district, late 60's early 70's. I hope that's not true but I think that it probably is. I was in that area in the same time period, never saw him, never knew he was there. Very sad story! I wish it was different, he had a huge amount of potential that was lost to the world. I'm sorry, not trying to leave you with a downer, just trying to pay tribute where I believe tribute is due. Enjoy the remainder of your summer EVians, EVites, EVatonians, I never got the memo on the correct proper noun to use for our lineage. But regardless, I wish you all the very best going forward in our lives, may we enjoy them to their fullest as others were not as fortunate.