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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 💒 1986-1991 college educator 🏫 year 52 retired but didn’t know it 🧐 1999-2018 chased family 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 year 86 SELF expression and publish 🤪 year 87 established RETIREMENT Tx 😉 year 88 📖 🚆🧑‍🦼‍➡️🚶 October 26 💡 — 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 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 ?“ 🙄 ? 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, 😉 ie, I-self, Me-self, We-self. 🤪 BE HAPPY with your own brain-mind-self as a JOB-mess 🤪. (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-time🤥) — Harv laughs at his EXTERIOR SELF while at his daily-picnic-in-the-county-park [he is now TRESPASSED there 😕] — 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.

03 week “action” blog bucket #2 begins 2023 January 15 —  curation from Susan to www, blood draw GFR38, chip at spiff, 271#, chronic back pain, sleep sweat, wander/wonder publish, 

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Comment 23w03:  Less noisy park-places (more-peaceful) have developed. Will one-meal-daily survive the past weekend success of coldest-winter-spell 32F? Put on another 10# over holidays — no more MM peanuts but licorice hangs on. Attention span does not carry to 3:30 COA exit. Bob advises that my expectations are too high — rather “I see possibilities” but that could be my lifelong dreamworld of what my life really is. My life is … peacespan/healthspan. Afternoon naps all week Miller Lake Park. 

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Health non-routine: 

03 - U-M Sakura T blood draw 8am back get continues have cold nights affected eyes began waist belt for backache rip on last week W 271# R 270# shed winter sleepwear no candy post Wendy’s both heat pads continued at night F feeling better but back feels like mush belt continues V8 crackers A one sleep sweat period 

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Niceties non-routine: 

03 - latched unto by diner Ken T Charles hired not-COA housekeeper W R carded Nel? (she has circuit of non-COA friends) finished three seasons of True Detective stream F Jennifer remembers past COA free wifi will email similar friends COA as retirement office ends the week on a high note A  

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As-set Residence In Motion (RIM) non-routine:  

03 - U 32 F 41 in cabin, pet pad on seat for feet/legs W COA computers charge becomes daily with decaf mug delivery F west stat 72 cool on actual 72 with fan cycling east stat 75 EMER heat on actual 74 set for 73, A curation changed from Commentary to Priority Events.



2022jan18. A snowy owl, not native to Southern California, has captured the imagination of many residents. (Courtesy of Brett Banditelli)

Harv remembers another visit by an arctic resident while in Fond du Lac WI in the 1970s.

https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=598b051fae7e8a68162a1429&s=63cb0f29ef9bf67b2368966b&linknum=4&linktot=50   The court’s statement says that it has “been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence.” A preponderance of evidence is a pretty low legal standard — basically requiring something to be more likely than not. So they haven’t isolated the potential culprit even to that low standard of proof, yet they’re convinced this was a protest? They don’t even have a bona fide suspect, but they’ve settled on at least a broad motive?   ...the court, through its opacity and its conspicuous choice of words, has arguably left the matter more shrouded in mystery than before.
Harv says, "So much for transparency!"
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/20/politics/supreme-court-credibility-dobbs-roe-leak/index.html   In a momentous case involving a half century of precedent protecting women’s privacy rights, routine office precautions were absent. And when the breach was discovered – a breach that the court itself deemed “a grave assault” – it was all but impossible to re-trace internal operations.    In the days immediately after Politico published the draft, some conservative activists had accused liberal clerks of the disclosure. Liberal advocates, meanwhile, targeted the court’s conservatives who might have been trying cement the 5-4 split to overturn Roe v. Wade. The partisan acrimony only increased once the decision upending reproductive rights nationwide was issued.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/20/supreme-court-leak-mystery/   ...it’s not as if the justices are above suspicion. Like others at the court, they had both motive and opportunity to leak. Indeed, it has never made much sense to me that a law clerk, without direction from a justice or at least tacit approval, would have taken that extraordinary step. After all, clerks are among the most careful, deliberate practitioners in the art of climbing the ladder of academic and professional achievement. They aren’t big risk-takers.   Chertoff is an experienced investigator. He also has close ties to some justices — including the author of Dobbs, the abortion ruling. Chertoff served from 1987-1990 as first assistant to Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. when Alito was the U.S. attorney for New Jersey. Chertoff succeeded Alito in that job, and the two served together as federal appeals court judges from 2003 to 2005. I don’t doubt Chertoff’s professionalism, but that’s uncomfortably close.

2023jan18. Asia populations. In 1961, the Mao famine had maybe six million deaths. In 2022, covid took less than a million.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64329890 The number of Chinese people fell by 850,000 from the previous year to 1.4118 billion, the statistics showed. Its birth rate had been slowing for years, prompting a range of policies to try to slow this trend, including scrapping the country's infamous one-child policy seven years ago.   While ageing populations have posed a challenge to economies around the world, the greater concern for China is the rapid pace at which this has been unfolding in the midst of its middle-income transition.   In short, China is getting old before it gets rich.    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64373950    In 2020, researchers projected Japan's population to fall from a peak of 128 million in 2017 ... The population is currently just under 125 million, according to official data.




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