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my i-SELF story starts here ======== 1940 — Junior, is already a FOCUSED OBSERVER as shown here — mother Connie with or without sister Gloria who lived one day as a ‘blue baby’ — urbanite tavern-owner-son, Senior (Rh+), shown not yet into the full stupor as a functioning alcoholic (he lived to 78y through six dry-up cures until drink made him really sick due to an exhausted liver). Connie lived into her 102nd year at her retirement home — the ‘not-good-enough’ son driving cross country to visit at least yearly — until maybe 1995 when he was departing in the hallway she announced, “Harvey, I don’t think we should see each other again.” Harv, without hesitation responded, “Ma, I agree,” walking off — we never spoke again, or corresponded. Harv was the shotgun pregnancy not aborted. Yet we were the culmination of generations of what Harv labels as NO-TALK❗️The years tumbled on and on with Harv’s i-SELF as hid subconscious driving force certainly NOT laced by his parochial education as a latch key kid. The best mother Connie could do in her circumstance. Harv was left tp his own devies in getting on in his life, yet they could be loosely described as a family of two. 1961 splintered off into marrtage with Elaine. Connie coping with retirement alone but fovused on a retirement home for her future.

dance combo

dance combo
2002 — Mother onnie and son Harv danced their lives together under the auspices of life-long NO-TALK parochialism. NOTE WELL — NO MALES SURVIVE FOR THE OLD-AGE PARTYING❗️

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2026 lifetime view of Harv — year 88 still a YOUTHFUL SPIRIT 😏 1960-1997 chased life partner ideation πŸ’’ 1986-1991 college educator 🏫 year 52 retired but didn’t know it 🧐 1999-2018 chased family πŸ§‘‍πŸ§‘‍πŸ§’‍πŸ§’ year 86 SELF expression and publish πŸ€ͺ year 87 established RETIREMENT Tx πŸ˜‰ year 88 πŸ“– πŸš†πŸ§‘‍🦼‍➡️🚢 October 26 πŸ’‘ — he is [at the nano-blog level (NB)] an ELDER EDUCATOR (EE) with one student, ie, himself … … … He is a philosopher of individual lives — his own and equal in quality to all functional others — his challenge is to express that ideation to a sliver of a ‘we’whole-hour to anybody interested [currently counted with just the index finger and by too many with just the ring finger] — IF HE HAS ANY FUNCTIONAL LIFETIME REMAINING — he works at maximizing his longevity via cooperation with health-care-industry and minimizing other distractions. including car-living He is reclusive as a student but not a recluse.

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to Milwaukee

1937 ? — Connie bolted from Marshfield live-in domestic work (indentured since grade five), to Milwaukee to mother’s-side south-Milwaukee relatives and perhaps domestic work for an east-side Milwaukee dentist.

Armand

1937? 1938? 1939? 1940? — Armand Otto south-Milwaukee-tavern-owner hung himself (cancer?).

sailor stand-up

sailor stand-up
1941 - THIS KID, today, still works his lifetime as a JOB! “Huh ?“ πŸ™„ ? RETIRED ? Contrarily, HarvOtto.com exists as a work of SELF study evidential narration challenge. Likely, it is a psychiatric COMPLEXITY CHALLENGE to understand SELF (effectualness navigation required). SELF IDEATION begins in the brain, develops in mind, via tasks chosen by a faceted self, πŸ˜‰ ie, I-self, Me-self, We-self. πŸ€ͺ BE HAPPY with your own brain-mind-self as a JOB-mess πŸ€ͺ. (Background pic represents Harv’s inherent tradition of being-aside, ie, ALONE.) His SELF study began in the 1970s as THEORY W.

beard in-car

beard in-car
2025 — looking ‘into’ his ‘magic-window’ iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard connected to “in-car home” internet, Harv jokingly laughs, (when he can get his keys LIT all-the-timeπŸ€₯) — Harv laughs at his EXTERIOR SELF while at his daily-picnic-in-the-county-park [he is now TRESPASSED there πŸ˜•] — HARV is forever curious of his INNER SELF related to world-wariness via his curated “FREE” CHOICES. Local-yokel modernity-reality — if Harv does not behave he takes responsibility for his own chosen life-way — continually adjusting as he has perceived being trespassed from many places by many individuals — Harv respects them all, although he moves on his life-time path-way.

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Before Harv’s INNER SELF study seriously took over his whole-hour lifetime interest. Harv had his “chasing-family’ lifetime-phase — well worth the time spent, but that chase was not the crux for KNOWING HIS SELF (his two preliminary SELF-keyword's are ALONE and TWEAK — perhaps MINIMALISM is another). A fairly stable book title has snuck out — NOT to be available soon in book stores near you.

 2021 July 04 bucket for week 28 — no pain progress into 5 months, hip belt, rampant food amount,  

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: Health routine:  awareness (wholesomeness), immune rest-slow walk-diet, LOFt, wellness a1767 a1806,

28 - U naps Triple, buns pain concerning, no upset from A Mexican meal, veg chips continue, lethargic

28 - initial gym return visit, M another Triple, Frosty night soothes, two McD double fish, PharmD weight slam,

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:Niceties routine: smile, sweet dreams, scan www-slides-papers/read/awareness (BBC NPR NYT WaPo CNN)

:self/RIM declutter, melodic, freeing v fear choice, family calls challenge, emotional stability, intellectual activity, 

Air3 surf/write/stream (connects to television of youth), sound/light shows (storms),

28 - Susan texts faux concern of weather, first shower since pandemic began, correction of Harv’s overreach

28 - risk-adverse v risk-keen (3 having or showing eagerness or enthusiasm: a keen desire to learn • [predicative] (keen on) 

28 - interested in or attracted by (someone or something - OAD), Susan faux shut Harv down isolated in FL,

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:As-set Residence In Motion routine:   spiff, OSs, self/RIM LOFt, future RIM in 90s if living, minimalism, 

28 - ceiling bars break again, F repaired arm rest from Altamonte Springs Walmart era, F tub celebrate, A head hair,

28 - F laundry, F first shower since covid,