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1940 — Junior, already a focused observer as shown here — 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).

yea88 YOUTHFUL SPIRIT 😏 y52 retired 🧐 y86 SELF expression πŸ€ͺ y87 RETIRE Tx πŸ˜‰ year 88 πŸš†πŸ§‘‍🦼‍➡️🚢

2026 — year 88 still a YOUTHFUL SPIRIT 😏 1960-1997 chased life partner 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§‘‍🦼‍➡️🚢

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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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?).

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.

chase family

chase family
2006 — before Harv’s INNER SELF study seriously took over his whole-hour lifetime interest. Harv in his “chasing family’ lifetime phase — well worth the time spent, but not the crux for KNOWING HIS SELF — his two keywords so far are ALONE and TWEAK — perhaps MINIMALISM is another..

LONER v hermit

Harv-the-Loner has a lifetime that flowed dynamically, that is, with constant change, activity, or progress.

DYNAMICALLY: adverb: 1 in a manner characterized by constant change, activity, or progress. • in a way that relates to motion. • Computing used in relation to web pages that update frequently or are generated according to an individual's search terms: a robust, dynamically generated website.   2 in a positive, energetic, and innovative manner.(OxfordAmericanDictionary-OAD)

 Illustration Eight
LIFE.EPOCHS.flow interpretation  2024sep27.2024nov05

His lifetime flow is concisely measured in epochs: (the below capitalization of 'self' indicates remediation, that is, actualization of realistic navigation of his point-of-choice within his pie-of-life)

Epoch 6 --  6y to age 92             frail* SELF-responsibility   -- fulfillment of ERG needs

Epoch 5 --  2y to age 86sep                     obtain wholistic SELF   --  Disney retirement / write tools
Epoch 4 --  5y to age 84        SELF-spirit-responsibility  --  studying his lifetime into order
Epoch 3 --  22y to age 79                family chase  --  the remaining fragment of parental responsibility ?
Epoch 2 --  35y to age 57         life-partnership-chase -- seeking the comfort of personal support ?
Epoch 1 --  22 years Happy Harv Otto's    H2o-self-spirit-development  --  knighted as Happy Harv
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lifetime of  92 years (statistical life expectancy in year 86)  *foot ‘broke’ 2024jan, eyesight headaches 2024oct, standing up 2024nov, …

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family on vacation in central WI 1940? Jr 2y?
At the beginning of Epoch One, Harv thinks he was a normal happy curious toddler (with pic evidence), and not particularly sheltered.  

His toddler education was kindergarten at public school, then parochial elementary a mile away.

He holds the opinion that he was never shut down, that is, mostly ignored to his own devices.  Neither parent was excited about getting caught by pregnancy, and the decision not to have an abortion, although debated, and the subsequent shotgun wedding a month before Harv’s full term birth ! 

It probably happened in mid elementary grades, that is, the infection with lifelong learning.

Lifelong learning is the "ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated"[1] pursuit of learning for either personal or professional reasons.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelong_learning

Beginning in Epoch Four, Happy Harv has again 'arrived' in his lifetime as that Happy Harv !   He has become whole, as in wholistic.  He has confirmed this through his recent 2023 'Yogananda' study -- but never anywhere near conversion.  He is satisficed.

WHOLISTIC: adjective  variant spelling of holistic.(OAD)        holistic: adjective: characterized by the belief that the parts of something are interconnected and can be explained only by reference to the whole.(OAD)

SATISFICE: verb formal: accept an available option as satisfactory.(OAD)

Harv the LONER finds his continuing 2023 lifestyle satisfactory, that is specifically, living out of his car, as he has done for decades, now in Four Townes, Florida; for peace and convenience.

 CONSTANT CHANGE, ACTIVITY, OR PROGRESS

Evidence:

  • educational degrees -- BSME1960  MBA 1970 CMA 1974 PhD1996.
  • 1400 page dissertation on Functional Organization -- post-PhD personal case study.
  • struggle to write/publish his case study -- 2010 began web site activity
  • a current dynamic world -- COA changes, government developments, his car wears, he ages, ...  (Ben Franklin from is Poor Richard's Almanac)"The harder [Harv adds smarter] I work, the luckier I get."
  • he navigates/studies through his dynamic pie-of-life -- joyfully, lovingly, freeing, ... 
Blog development

The 2024 New-Year blog body compared a historical hermit image with his 2008 CA toast under BIO.  But that scene of comparison has past its time since his peace/convenience personal actualization of his me-self life-history.  Saved in entirty below :

2023dec27.  Questions for my self ?
Are you functional?   
historical hermit
E R G satisficed ?      
R E C self/another/others ?
2023nov22. Who am I, "Who, who ?"  

A: Harv has lived on/off out of his car for decades,  
he intellectualizes/publishes out of his MacBook Air, 
to better answer, "Who is me ? "  
HERMIT: noun: person living in solitude or conditioned to do so.
SOLITUDE: noun: state or situation of being alone, resulting in 
PEACE / CONVENIENCE.(OADappleM2)
2023dec29.  Best "me-self history events" yet.
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This 2024 New Year publishment marked an understanding of the comparison of the historical hermit and Harv in 2008, also a hermit at that time, and perhaps a life-long trait.  

HARV DOES

He is action oriented -- his self is defined as the Point-Of-Choice-To-Action (POCTA).

the REJECTED view
(OAD thesaurus) REJECT: verb [stress on the second syllable]; 1 the miners rejected the government's offer to negotiate their demands. turn down, refuse, decline, say no to; dismiss, spurn; informal give the thumbs down to, give the red light to, give something a miss; British English informal knock back. ANTONYMS accept.
2 she had been deeply in love with Jamie, but he rejected her. rebuff, spurn, repudiate, cut off, cast off, cast aside, discard, jettison, abandon, desert, turn one's back on, have nothing (more) to do with, wash one's hands of, cast out, shut out, exclude, shun, cold-shoulder, give someone the cold shoulder; ostracize, blackball, blacklist, avoid, give a wide berth to, ignore, snub, cut dead, keep at arm's length, leave out in the cold; British English send to Coventry; North American English disfellowship; informal give someone the brush-off, kick someone in the teeth, freeze out, hand someone the frozen mitt; informal, dated give someone the go-by; British English informal give someone the push, give someone the elbow, give someone the big E, bin off, blank; North American English informal give someone the air; dated cut; Christian church excommunicate; archaic forsake. ANTONYMS welcome.

(OAD) reject: verb [stress on the second syllable]:  :  the miners rejected the government's offer to negotiate their demandsturn downrefusedeclinesay no todismissspurninformal give the thumbs down togive the red light togive something a missBritish English informal knock backrare negativeANTONYMS  acceptthe miners rejected the government's offer to negotiate their demandsturn downrefusedeclinesay no todismissspurninformal give the thumbs down togive the red light togive something a missBritish English informal knock backrare negativeANTONYMS  acceptshe had been deeply in love with Jamie, but he rejected herrebuffspurnrepudiatecut offcast offcast asidediscardjettisonabandondesertturn one's back onhave nothing (more) to do withwash one's hands ofcast outshut outexcludeshuncold-shouldergive someone the cold shoulderostracizeblackballblacklistavoidgive a wide berth toignoresnubcut deadkeep at arm's lengthleave out in the coldBritish English send to CoventryNorth American English disfellowshipinformal give someone the brush-offkick someone in the teethfreeze outhand someone the frozen mittinformaldated give someone the go-byBritish English informal give someone the pushgive someone the elbowgive someone the big Ebin offblankNorth American English informal give someone the airdated cutChristian church excommunicatearchaic forsakeANTONYMS  welcome.(OAD dictionary)  REJECT: verb [with object] | rΙ™Λˆjek(t) |dismiss as inadequate, inappropriate, or not to one's taste.• refuse to agree to (a request): an application to hold a pop concert at the club was rejected.• fail to show due affection or concern for (someone); rebuff: she didn't want him to feel he had been rejected after his sister was born.• Medicine show an immune response to (a transplanted organ or tissue) so that it fails to survive: his body could begin to reject the implanted heart.noun | ˈrΔ“ΛŒjek(t) |a person or thing dismissed as failing to meet standards or satisfy tastes: some of the team's rejects have gone on to prove themselves in championships.