Lhasa Kivan:  

Hello... Hello to everyone who does not remember me, because Lhasa Kivan is my alias at this point. But I remember most of you and often wonder how Y'all have faired. After graduation I traveled the entire west coast from Big Sur, the northern Cali coast, Oregon, lived in Washington State 2 years helped build a house in the country from the ground up, moved to Canada, lived & worked in British Columbia, worked on fishing ships in Kodiak Alaska, I worked the seasons as a reforestation-forest-laborer, forest fire prevention, worked fire lines from Alaska-Canada-Washingtion & Oregon. I moved back to Napa Valley, went to University of San Francisco State majored psychology, towards MSW specializing in youth advocacy. For specific personal reasons I dropped out of formal classes in this field of human behavior, child & criminal psychology, cultural & anthropological studies in various cultures. I was amorphous career wise doing everything from teaching special needs children & adults, all the while working in fields-orchards-farms, volunteering at ashrams, painting house exteriors, taught some classes at Sur La Table in the late 90' & 2000's, light community volunteering; all the while living in Saint Helena & Yountville in Napa Valley. After a 4 decade career I now return to help watch a 92 year old mother. I've been in San Francisco living in the house I came to this country in. City life is very different than country and Valley life. I'm afraid I'm unaccustomed to city folk, the population density, noise of cars, the homeless, motorcycles, yelling, jet planes, sirens, law enforcement, aggressive negative people, tourists, litter, opportunistic crime. Back then in 1972 there was only one car in the driveway or garage and free parking err-where; sadly now cars are on sidewalks and parking space is competitive. In 1971 minimum wage was $1.4 5an hour until Pres. Gerald Ford raised minimum wage to $2.50 an hour. A loaf of Sun...Expand for more