Above: Framing a scene - trying to get an objective look at subjective reality? My relationship to the world has always been very visual.

These pictures in a black sweater (note the black hat too, below) were perhaps from the summer of 1979, in transit from Los Angeles to Portland, when I stopped to visit Marc in Berkeley.

Above and below: These pictures are on an undated negative strip from when I visited Marc GW in Berkeley, a visit which probably occurred in 1978 or 1979, on the way up to Reed, at the end of the summer.

Below: Marc probably took these pictures of me. He appears on this negative strip.

As a result of that experience and other developments in my feelings about college and life in America, I decided to leave Reed for a year and a half, and go to Israel.

This was a radical decision. Nothing in my upbringing or previous experience would have predicted this choice.

From the perspective of 2002, this ID card picture from the fall of 1979 represents the last moment before everything changed, the inflection point when adolescence ended and adulthood began.

Part of me would like to shake the guy in that photo, and say, think again! And part of me has no regrets.

Above: The picture to the right is from a Shabbat with the Jewish student group at Reed. It is either from the second half of 1978, or from some time in 1979. More likely 1979, as my participation in Reed's small Jewish communtiy took place as my earlier connections with others seemed to fade or not work out.

Above and below: Berkely visit in 1978 or 1979