Category: Santa Cruz

Kresge Post Made Private

Kresge is outdated by two generations; my mom’s father Elwood. I believe that the University would like to build a new college in its place. There are writings on Gevluef about Kresge. It isn’t enough though. A search for Elwood might have enough about Kresge. I’m going to write about this topic further. I recently donated and they said they need a hundred. Because it is about my family on my mother’s side I feel obligated to take care of it. I wish that my family had more insight about Kresge. I think I’m the only one that thinks stuff about it.

I am trying to keep my Blog posts appropriate. In 1988-1989 I wanted to write a form letter to my family. It would have turned out to be a newsletter. Decades later, now that we have the internet, I can write on a Blog.  I enjoy writing. Maybe you’ve gotten one of my emails. I never would have thought I would be a writer.

Comment: August 28th, 2024; Thank you for everything Kresge. In recent posts I show that the Getty though they ruined my painting might be ready to be forgiven. Anyway to make this change it will take years. Right now, Kresge has a tall order.

Gravity’s Rainbow

I got the book cover picture from The Thomas Pynchon web site: https://thomaspynchon.com/

In the News:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, has acquired Pynchon’s literary archive.

This article is dated December 14th, 2022: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/arts/thomas-pynchon-huntington-archive.html

This article is dated November 26th, 2023: https://www.pasadenanow.com/weekendr/thomas-pynchons-gravitys-rainbow-at-50-a-literary-journey-unveiled/

Although I am expected to get Gravity’s Rainbow, I am getting Vineland; July 4th 2024. It is the plan for the Napa Valley Wine Vintage for 2024.

Rose Acres

 

Rose Acres

It was a plan to build a new house with the old boarding house as an example. As it was getting closer to finishing the new house and the threat was that the old boarding house would be destroyed, the staff started listening to Nirvana. It was telling the staff in Tagalog to not destroy the old house. It was once a place for Samuel Clemens to do his thinking before going to San Francisco.

We have a tendency to unlearn things. Saving this house is probably an example of what we need to relearn periodically. I don’t want anyone to destroy the old house. I stayed at the new house when it was a mental health place in 1998. The same thing happened there as at the old house. It is Felton, California, there is gravity.

6950 Rose Acres Lane
Felton, CA  95018

Could you please arrange to have a plaque placed on the front door saying that this house is a significant historical property? If so, I wouldn’t notice, but other people will. And, it could save the house. At the very least, the city planning office has a file on the property. To save the house the city planning office would be a good place to start.

Sumner House

Sumner House

The 1990-1991 School year was a very productive time for me. I was meeting Leila Alpers, taking Philosophy courses and doing Art. I think it was a productive time because I was also doing methamphetamine. Me and a housemate, Eric, would go to San Francisco to get it. I was using a tiny tiny amount at a time. I was treating ADHD. And, so I was very productive.

Golden Gate Bridge toll story

 

1994 – Introduction To MH

This is my accounting of the events after trying to make it in Napa. I should say that I couldn’t get by in Napa and thus I was taken into the Napa State Hospital; October 25, 1993.

Every intake question they asked I would think for some amount of seconds and then respond. By the time I got to my hospital bed I was threatening; a side effect from thinking. My cousin was pregnant with her first child.

My stay was short though, comparable to the regulars at the T-5 ward. I was sent on December 24, to Harbor Hills Hospital in Santa Cruz. This was a locked psychiatric facility.

I was out of time and needed to be competent before going back into the community. The person who helped me with that was Kimberley another patient at Harbor Hills. I thought we were getting married. My cousin had her baby.

I was ready to go back to Napa. I stayed in mental health. Napa was not the best place for me. I should have gone further North to Seattle, Washington. I might have gotten by there. 

Kimberley still lives in Santa Cruz. She is one of the ones that has Schizophrenia. I was Schizo-Affective. This was a time when I really accepted my mental Illness. I also got the Home Office ethic from Kim. I also had poisoning from Salmonella earlier in 1993.

There were nurturing staff in Napa and I was able to work and be independent with my mental illness. I would like to think I had some mystery achievements there. That I will have to share for another time.

Lithographic Limestone Printmaking

I have given this post a couple of Tags: Lithographic, Printmaking. There are five posts on this subject here at Gevluef. UC Santa Cruz has a lot of limestone for fine art printing. It is a major collection, and a reason to go to UC Santa Cruz – or not. They have a landfill.

Below are links to the other posts on this subject:

This list of posts has a directive. The main idea is to raise awareness of the UC Santa Cruz Printmaking Studio.

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