Don Lotter
californiaboomer.com
Don Lotter
californiaboomer.com
California Boomer - non-YouTube access - these are the same as the YouTube videos but without sub-chapters, from my Google Drive. How to watch California Boomer: on a Smart TV. Previews: "Elsa" (2 min) "Migrations: closing a 350,000 year loop of human evolution" (6 min)
Epilogue / Prologue
This page has a summary of my life in the form of brief sub-chapter descriptions. Each has a link to that part of the YouTube video, milestones and major concepts bolded, red entries are major ones.
: "The Ancestors and My California Culture" Chapter 0. Below are sub-chapter descriptions and links to that part of the YouTube video.
"Growing Up in Sunset Court California" Chapter 1. Below are sub-chapter descriptions and links to that part of the YouTube video.
"To Africa and the Sunset of the British Empire" Chapter 2. Below are sub-chapter descriptions and links to that part of the YouTube video.
"Back to ‘67 California and the Summer of Love" Chapter 3. Below are sub-chapter descriptions and links to that part of the YouTube video.
"Vagabonding Europe to the Middle East" Chapter 4. Below are sub-chapter descriptions and links to that part of the YouTube video.
56:14 Ze'ev: holocaust survivor I lived with on the Mount Olives
57:17 The "religious police" (Rabbis) come to Ze'ev's
58:45 Lots of Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem.
I show some graphics of tennis: the Dunlop Fort tennis racket, the American Twist serve that wrecked so many backs.
59:07 Cornered by the Jews for Jesus (Americans), the most rabid of all proselytizers.
However, I do not criticize or downplay the power that their faith gave them to kick their enslavement to heroin.
59:41 Opiate addiction needs to be seen as enslavement (these guys were former addicts). Seeing it this way, in my mind, justifies radical, sustained intervention.
1:02:03 Prison is not the right intervention
1:02:30 I visit the Wailing Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
1:03:41 I was in Jerusalem when the massacre of Israeli athletes at the '72 Olympics in Munich happened
1:04:29 In an office: the tension between Israeli and Palestinian
1:05:30 The increase in terror attacks prompted searches of luggage at airports, so my passport was found, guys arrested.
I testified in court, they were convicted, and sent to jail - an Israeli and a Belgian.
1:07:09 I become more introspective, use the I Ching
1:07:53 Ze'ev gives me a suitcase with bullet holes from 1948 war.
"To the Gold Mines of South Africa" Chapter 5. Below are sub-chapter descriptions and links to that part of the YouTube video.
"College and Latin America" Chapter 6. Below are sub-chapter descriptions and links to that part of the YouTube video.
"Cornell and Four Continents" Chapter 7. Below are sub-chapter descriptions and links to that part of the YouTube video.
"Becoming a Scientist and Losing My Shirt" Chapter 8. Below are links to sub-chapters.
"Tanzania 2009-16 and Reflections on Africa and the Africans" Chapter 11. Below: Links to sub-chapters. Click on the time to go to that part of the video.
California Boomer: It is what it is, I am what I am. Chapter 12. Below: Links to sub-chapters. Click on the time to go to that part of the video.
Appendix 1 video: Odds, Ends and Outtakes A dozen or two short pieces, three of which are below. Links to the different pieces are below.
Appendix 2 video: The Making of a YouTube Video Memoir: California Boomer
Pest Control Advisor exam flashcards MS Word file (I have many requests for this from my 2009 YouTube video)