Above: Contemplating a speculative bubble.
Aug. 25, 2001- Photo by Scott Pearce
Above: Leora holds our daughter in a sling on a weekly shopping
trip at the farmer's market
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Above:
We four, circa
October/November 2001
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In
the photo above, we are visiting with friends. The
flag is an echo of the events of September 11, 2001.
I
like the picture of old high school friends below
because I remember most of these people from 1976
and 1977. I saw them at age 17, and then they reappeared
23 years later. Their faces did not evolve slowly.
Instead they flashed from age 17 to 41 in a single
moment, without confusing intermediate stages. And
so I see each of them as two overlapping and utterly
clear images, youth and middle age in a single image.
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Above:
"Now we are middle-aged." Reunion in Orange County,
20 to 24 Years After Those High School Days. Pictured, left to
right are Jeff Gothard and Liz Bear (both Hollywood High School,
1978), Leora Troper (Beverly Hills High School, 1981) and Miles
Hochstein (Hollywood High School 1977), Brad Roberts (The Roeper
School, Detroit, 1979) and (Rabbi) Alexis Harmon Roberts (Hollywood
High School, 1978) and Thair Peterson (Hollywood High School,
1977, holding a picture of his family) and Assorted Beloved Children.
(Photo by Emily, age 9.)
It
turns out that we went to high school with very nice people, and
that two decades was about enough time to recover from the whole
experience and enjoy each other's company on a warm summer day
at Jeff and Liz's home in Orange County.
Above: A late
summer hike in Temescal Canyon.
Above:
A late summer hike in Temescal Canyon.
Above: Leora holds our daughter, around age one.
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Above:
A late summer hike in Temescal Canyon.
Below:
Scanner me.
What?!
Please do not tell me you haven't scanned your face yet.
I think this looks like a death mask.
Above:
My son learning to ride his new bike.
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Abba,
can we go home yet?
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