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- Home
- About
- An American Archive
- 1 An American Archive: Preface
- 2 An American Archive: Introduction
- 3 An American Archive: Langdon Will
- 4 An American Archive: American Crisis No. 1
- 5 An American Archive: Headquarters Document
- 6 An American Archive: ABCs
- 7 An American Archive: Lee Document
- 8 An American Archive: The Henry Lee Lletters
- 9 An American Archive: Charles Carroll Truesdell
- 10 An American Archive: Mary Bradford Fessenden Truesdell
- 11 An American Archive: Colonel John M. Fessenden
- 12 An American Archive: George Truesdell
- 13 An American Archive: The Letters
- 14 An American Archive: Epilogue
- Commentary
- 10 Quotes on Comfort
- 10 Quotes on Discomfort
- 7 Things that Must Not be Thought
- A Day to Remember
- A Really Good Book
- Abraham, the Sumerian
- Achilles
- Albrecht
- Ancient Egyptian Proverbs & Poetry
- Angel of Light
- Another Myth
- Another’s Shoes
- At the Birth
- Backpacking
- Balance
- Bathroom Death
- Bears in Lafayette
- Being Original
- Between the Waiting
- Billy’s Hate
- Books I Have Read
- Broken Things
- Burrs on My Socks
- Bushwhackers
- By Law
- Capt. Joseph Walker
- Cat Brain
- Cellphone Journalism
- Charlottesville
- Cheek Failure
- Click/Click
- Completion of a Hard Journey
- Copper Man
- Cosmic Rays
- Cosmic Zoom
- Couples
- Cowboy Dreams
- Creations Create
- Cuneiform Today
- Dung Beetle
- Dying Thoughts
- Earth Abides
- Earth Abides
- Egocentric
- Follow the Leader
- FOMO
- Freedom to Print
- Freedom to Print Redux
- Friends and Family
- Frozen Things
- Genealogy
- Ghost Story
- Gormenghast, the Cave, and the Chair
- Happiness
- Hard Tack
- Heart Tales #1
- Heart Tales #2
- Heart Tales #3
- Heroes
- Highly Classified- 01/98
- Highly Classified- 12/94
- Highly Classified- 9/93
- History’s Butterfly Effect
- How Old is Your Light?
- How to Paint a Wall
- Hummingbird Effect
- I Have Issues!!
- I Love It, but It Doesn’t Go With My Couch
- I Rise!
- If We See It
- Inspiration
- Is It Art?
- It’s a Matter of Influence
- It’s in the Smoke
- Ivan Illich
- Kaidan from Arikona
- Keys? I Have No Keys!
- Labels
- Lamp Posts
- Land Waster
- Life and Death
- Mahmoud, the Iconoclast
- Making Leather
- Möbius Thoughts
- Medieval Thoughts Pt. 1
- Medieval Thoughts Pt. 2
- Memories
- Memorizing
- Memory Effect
- Metamorphosis
- More Haste, Less Speed
- More Murmurations
- Movies to Watch
- Mushroom Thoughts
- My Friend Kathy
- Myth of Sisyphus
- Nukes in Hawaii?
- On Education
- On the Other Side of Wednesday
- On the Road, the Movie
- Ottis, Man of Copper
- Our Fickle Relative
- Ouroborus
- Parsing the Difference
- Passing Wind
- PhotoSafari
- Pictures Worth Words
- Pintles and Gudgeons
- Please a Knock!
- Pondering the Cold
- Price of Character
- Radioactive
- Raised by Wolves
- Raymond is Fine, but We Grieve
- Right Time, Right Place, Right EDC
- Roofing Rant
- Rules for HitchHiking
- Running in Circles
- Sacred and Profane
- Sand, Stars, and People
- Searching…
- Seder or Chaos
- Self Analysis of Random Roadtrip of 2015
- Sharks Among Us
- Sharp Tooth
- Shibboleth
- Side Stories
- Side Stories
- Sisyphus Revisited
- So, Things Are Changing!
- Soap dish Effect
- Some Unusual Art
- Something Happening Here
- Something- What it is Isn’t Exactly Clear
- Spinning
- Spiritual Home
- Stones That Speak
- Style and Substance
- Sumerian Proverbs
- Tangential Thoughts
- The Accounting
- The Agony and the Ecstacy
- The Bear and the Deerfly
- The Beatles
- The Bracelet
- The Cycle of Men That Are Not Bad
- The Dashiki
- The Day After the Wedding
- The Devil is in the details
- The Flag, the Anthem
- The Long Now
- The Monkey and the Banana Wrench
- The Most Interesting Woman
- The Punchbowl
- The Quiet Hours
- The Sound of Animals
- The Speed of Thinking
- The Unread Bible
- The Waiting Room
- Things Unsaid…
- Thought Murmurations
- Thoughts of What I Carried
- Thoughts on Bibles, part 1
- Thoughts on Bibles, part 2
- To Qualify
- Today, I Am Faced with Myself
- Toll Flapping in the Wind
- Trophes
- Truth or Consequences
- Tugs from the Future
- Uncle Clay’s House of Pure Aloha
- Upon Reflection
- We Get The Leadership We Deserve
- What Then?
- What?
- When Politics Divides Families
- Where Dies the Light!
- Which Way Should I Go?
- Whirling Dervishes
- Why?
- Yom 13th
- You Are What You Do
- Dancers
- Dancers Study 1
- Dancers Study 10
- Dancers Study 11
- Dancers Study 12
- Dancers Study 13
- Dancers Study 14
- Dancers Study 15
- Dancers Study 16
- Dancers Study 17
- Dancers Study 18
- Dancers Study 19
- Dancers Study 2
- Dancers Study 20
- Dancers Study 3
- Dancers Study 4
- Dancers Study 5
- Dancers Study 6
- Dancers Study 7
- Dancers Study 8
- Dancers Study 9
- Degas Tribute
- Nutcracker Art
- Digital Art
- $600 Goose
- A.G.Ferrari
- Artwork for Jack Tone
- Artwork for Letterbox
- Artwork for On The Road, Again
- Artwork for PCT
- Bath, UK
- Carmel 2
- Celebrate
- Charlotte 1
- Charlotte 2
- City Skies
- Color Theory
- Composite
- Disney Bee
- Disney Street
- Durer
- Eucalyptus Flower
- Fish
- Hilo Beach
- Jenna
- John Muir
- Magda
- Moraga Truck
- Northern Italy in Winter
- Nutcracker Art
- Nutcracker Laura/Amy
- Pacific Lobby
- Pacific Lobby 2
- Panama
- Panama Jenna
- Red Flowers
- Rheem Dreaming
- Sidney
- Sound of Coffee
- Statue Study
- The Bay Before Man
- The Process of Digital Art
- The Process of Digital Art 2
- Tilden Succulent
- Torso
- Torso 2
- Two Flowers
- Two Flowers 2
- Two Flowers 3
- Extravaganzas
- Family Sketches
- Abby 1
- Abby 2
- Al Abe Goldstein
- Amy & Meg
- At the wall 1
- At the wall 2
- Crest trail
- Diestler 1, John
- Diestler 10, Laura
- Diestler 12 Gayle
- Diestler 2, Gayle
- Diestler 3, Sherry
- Diestler 4, John
- Diestler 5, nutcracker
- Diestler 6, Amy Meg
- Diestler 7, Bob
- Diestler 8, Laura
- Diestler 9, Jenna
- Diestler, Amelia
- Diestler, Billie
- Diestler, Billie western
- Diestler, Cork
- Diestler, Ed 18
- Diestler, John
- Diestler, Matt & Nieven
- Diestler, Mom & me 1
- Diestler, Mom & me 2
- Diestler, Nikki
- Diestler, Sherry
- Diestler, Zach & Nikki
- Diestler, Zach/Nikki
- Diestler’s at the Wall
- Elgin, Kari
- Fannie
- Goldstein 1
- Goldstein, Anne 1
- Goldstein, Anne 2
- Jenna Rentz
- Jennie
- John Diestler 6
- John Self?
- Laura Park 1
- Laura Park 2
- Laura Park 3
- Rentz 1
- Rentz 2
- Rentz 3
- Rentz 4
- Rentz 5
- Rentz 6
- The Four of Us
- The Women, Amy, Jenna, Laura
- Young Amy
- Zach & Nikki 2
- Fiction
- Graphic Design
- Hollywood Art
- Angela Lansbury
- Ann Francis
- Ann Sheridan
- Ann Sothern
- Audrey Hepburn 1
- Audrey Hepburn 2
- Audrey Hepburn 3
- Audrey Hepburn 4
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Barrymore, Ethel 1
- Barrymore, Ethel 2
- Barrymore, John
- Barrymore, Lionel
- Bette Davis 1
- Bette Davis 2
- Bette Davis 3
- Bette Davis 4
- Betty Grable
- Betty Hutton
- Billie Burke
- Boris Karloff 1
- Boris Karloff 2
- Boris Karloff 3
- Cary Grant
- Charlie Chaplin
- Clara Bow 1
- Clara Bow 2
- Clark Gable
- Claudette Colbert 1
- Claudette Colbert 2
- Claudette Colbert 3
- Claudia Cardinale
- Constance Bennett
- Deborah Kerr
- Debra Paget
- Dolores Del Rio
- Donna Reed
- Doris Day
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Eartha Kitt
- Edward G Robinson 1
- Edward G Robinson 2
- Eleanor Parker
- Eleanor Powell
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Errol Flynn 1
- Errol Flynn 2
- Errol Flynn 3
- Fred Astaire
- Gene Tierney 1
- Gene Tierney 2
- Gene Tierney 3
- Ginger Rogers
- Gloria Stuart
- Glynis Johns
- Grace Kelly
- Greer Garson
- Greta Garbo 1
- Greta Garbo 2
- Greta Garbo 3
- Gypsy Rose Lee
- Hedy Lamarr 1
- Hedy Lamarr 2
- Hedy Lamarr 3
- Helen Hayes
- Henry Fonda
- Humphrey Bogart 1
- Humphrey Bogart 2
- Ida Lupino
- Ingrid Bergman
- Irene Dunne
- Jackie Coogan
- James Cagney 1
- James Cagney 2
- James Dean
- James Stewart 1
- James Stewart 2
- Jean Arthur
- Jean Harlow 1
- Jean Harlow 2
- Jean Peters
- Jean Simmons
- Jeanne Crain
- Joan Blondell
- Joan Crawford
- John Gilbert
- John Wayne
- Judy Garland
- June Havoc
- Katherine Hepburn 1
- Katherine Hepburn 2
- Kim Novak
- Lana Turner
- Larry Lipton
- Laurel & Hardy
- Lauren Bacall 1
- Lauren Bacall 2
- Lillian Gish
- Lillian Roth
- Lizabeth Scott
- Mae West
- Marilyn Monroe 1
- Marilyn Monroe 2
- Marilyn Monroe 3
- Marilyn Monroe 4
- Marlene Dietrich
- Marlon Brando
- Mary Pickford
- Maude Feeley
- Maureen O’Hara
- Merle Oberon 1
- Merle Oberon 2
- Mitzi Gaynor
- Myrna Loy 1
- Myrna Loy 2
- Olivia deHaviland
- Rita Hayworth 1
- Rita Hayworth 2
- Sarah Bernhardt 1
- Sarah Bernhardt 2
- Sidney Poitier
- Sophia Loren
- Spencer Tracy 1
- Spencer Tracy 2
- Spencer Tracy 3
- Spencer Tracy 4
- Theda Bara
- Tuesday Weld
- Veronica Lake
- Virginia Mayo
- Vivian Blaine
- Vivian Leigh 1
- Vivian Leigh 2
- WC Fields
- Yvonne DeCarlo
- Knife making
- Military Stories
- Military Stories #01
- Military Stories #02
- Military Stories #03
- Military Stories #04
- Military Stories #05
- Military Stories #06
- Military Stories #07
- Military Stories #08
- Military Stories #09
- Military Stories #10
- Military Stories #11
- Military Stories #12
- Military Stories #13
- Military Stories #14
- Military Stories #15
- Military Stories #16
- Military Stories #17
- Military Stories #18
- Military Stories #19
- Military Stories #20
- Military Stories #21
- One Things
- Pacific Crest Trail Notes
- Personal History
- Bands of Color
- Breakfast and Cornrows
- Dad’s Birthday
- Eiger Boots
- Family Legends
- Family Vacation
- Flash: Grid to Ridge
- How It All Got Started
- I Was Almost Flying
- Learning to Gybe
- Life is Happening
- Life, Death & Cats
- More DNA
- My DNA
- Pet Friendly Motel
- Results
- Strange in the Woods
- The Bullet
- The Rehearsal Dinner
- Triking with Drat
- Under the Mountain
- Vacation to England
- Yurburg, Our Past, Our Future?
- Photography
- 911 Memorial
- Above Canyon
- Altar
- Asilomar Beach
- Balcony
- Biked to my Coffee
- Bird House
- Bird Houses
- Blades
- Bunker Door
- Canberra
- Canyon Hairpin
- Capt. Walker
- Carquinez 1
- Carquinez 2
- Catamaran
- Chinatown
- Coming to Canyon
- Crockett Marina
- Daily Ride 1
- Daily Ride 2
- Daily Ride 3
- Daughter
- Delta Ghost Town
- Delta Mansion
- Dentals in Locke
- Depth of Field
- El Capitan
- Escape
- Fall
- Fall Fell
- Family 1
- Family 2
- Family 3
- Family 4
- Fish Market
- Gate
- Going to Canyon
- Golden Gate I
- Golden Gate II
- Golden Gate III
- Golden Gate IV
- Golden Gate V
- Golden Gate VI
- Graduation Day
- Gravesite
- Hawaii 1
- Hawaii Beach
- Hawaii Chimney
- Hawaiian Jenna
- Hawk
- Heading Home
- Hearst Castle 1
- Hello
- Hole in the Rock, NZ
- Holiday
- Hoody
- Horse Bite
- Jelly
- Jelly 2
- Ladder 1
- Ladder 2
- Lafayette Resevoir
- Lake Alpine
- Lake Alpine 2
- Lake near Canyon
- Last Balcony
- Let there be…
- Lighthouse
- Live Post: 63?
- Live Post: Halloween
- Live Post: Ride
- Locke Alley
- Locke Street
- Manzanita
- Marin
- Marin 1
- Marin 2
- Marin Headlands
- Marin Ring
- Marshland
- Martha’s
- Men of Tahoe
- Mother of All Trees
- Mt. Diablo
- Muir Kids
- Mustang
- My Ride
- New F1.4
- New York
- Nutcracker Photo
- NZ Flower
- Oakland DPF
- Oakland Secure
- Oakland Tribune
- Ornaments
- Paint
- Pampas
- Peaks in Locke
- Planks
- Prayer Answered 2
- Prayer Answered 3
- Prayer Answered 4
- Prayer Works
- Railroad
- Red Bunch
- Red Contrast
- Red Oaks
- Red Trees
- Reflections
- Reflections 2
- Reflections 3
- Reservoir 1
- Reservoir 2
- Reservoir 3
- Rio Vista
- River Lunch
- Rock Lake
- Rock Lake
- Rotorua
- Rotorua 2
- Rough Wall
- Santa Cruz 1
- Santa Cruz 2
- Secure White on White
- Selfie
- Short Porch
- Spiral
- Stream
- Stream, NZ
- Sunday Fog
- Tahoe Beach
- Tahoe Fam
- Tahoe Morning 1
- Tahoe Morning 2
- Tahoe Summer
- Tahoe Winter 1
- Tahoe Winter 2
- The Garden Door
- The Ladies
- The Winery
- The Younger Girls
- The Younger Girls
- Trees… Art Project
- Two Red
- Vacation
- Waterfront
- Window Shadows 1
- Window Shadows 2
- Wisdom
- Wish
- Women of Tahoe
- Writing on the Wall
- Written in Stones
- YoseCrow
- Yosemite 1
- Yosemite 2
- Yosemite 2013
- Yosemite Flower
- Younger Girls
- Zipline 1
- Zipline 2
- Photography Class
- Podcasts
- Angel of Light
- Bathroom Death
- Breakfast & Cornrows
- Broken Things
- Click, Click
- Family Vacation
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- Groundling
- Headless John
- Jack Tone Road
- Knock, Knock
- Life, Death, and Cats
- On The Road, again
- OTR01- A Fine Morning
- OTR02- Basic Food Groups
- OTR03- Mystery Spot & Raccoons
- OTR04- Wagon Full of Hair
- OTR05- Banana Sticker
- OTR06- Tracks
- OTR07- Desert Death
- OTR08- Sleeping on the Edge
- OTR09- Firehole Camp
- OTR10- Animal Stories
- OTR11- The Bone Dance
- OTR12- The Commune
- OTR13- Becoming a POW
- OTR14- Beards, Blondes, & Badges
- OTR15- The Prostitute
- OTR16- The Bed, the Raccoon, & the Draft
- Rehearsal Dinner
- Stones That Speak
- Suzanne
- The Bullet
- The Emperor, the Master, and the Fish
- The Sound of Leaves
- Poetry and Non-fiction
- Sermons
- Tribute Paintings
- Andrew Wyeth 1
- Andrew Wyeth 2
- Andrew Wyeth 3
- Andrew Wyeth 4
- Andrew Wyeth 5
- Bob Dylan 1
- Bob Dylan 2
- Cassatt 1
- Close 1
- Cohen 1
- Cohen 2
- Dancers 1
- de Limpicka 1
- de Limpicka 2
- de Limpicka 3
- de Limpicka 4
- de Limpicka 5
- Degas 1
- Degas 2
- Durer 1
- Durer 2
- Durer A 2
- Francis Bacon 1
- Francis Bacon 2
- Francis Bacon 3
- Francis Bacon 4
- Francis Bacon 5
- Hokusai’s Wave
- Homer 1
- Hopper, Edward 1
- Hopper, Edward 2
- Ilia Anderson
- Klimpt 1
- Klimpt 2
- Klimt 3
- Lana Del Rey
- Lautrec 1
- Lautrec 10
- Lautrec 11
- Lautrec 12
- Lautrec 13
- Lautrec 2
- Lautrec 3
- Lautrec 4
- Lautrec 5
- Lautrec 6
- Lautrec 7
- Lautrec 8
- Lautrec 9
- Manet 1
- Manet 2
- Manet 3
- Matisse 1
- Matisse 2
- Matisse 3
- Matisse 4
- Matisse 5
- Matisse 6
- Mickles 1
- Mickles 2
- Modigilani 1
- Monet, Claude 1
- Monet, Claude 2
- Morisot, Berthe 1
- Morisot, Berthe 2
- Morisot, Berthe 3
- Morisot, Berthe 4
- Mucha 1
- Mucha 2
- Mucha 3
- Mucha 4
- Mucha Study 1
- Mucha Study 2
- Mucha Study 3
- Mucha Study 4
- Mucha Study 5
- Mucha Study 6
- Mucha Study 7
- Mucha Study 8
- Renoir 1
- Renoir 2
- Renoir 3
- Richard Brautigan
- Sandro Botticelli 1
- Sandro Botticelli 2
- Sandro Botticelli 3
- Sandro Botticelli 4
- Schiele 1
- Schiele 2
- Schiele 3
- Schiele 4
- Schiele 5
- Schiele 7
- Schiele 8
- Schiele 9
- Van Gogh 1
- Van Gogh 10
- Van Gogh 11
- Van Gogh 12
- Van Gogh 13
- Van Gogh 14
- Van Gogh 2
- Van Gogh 3
- Van Gogh 4
- Van Gogh 5
- Van Gogh 6
- Van Gogh 7
- Van Gogh 8
- Van Gogh 9
- Vermeer 1
- Vermeer 2
- Vermeer 3
- Walt Whitman
- Typography
- The Alphabet
- Typography-A
- Typography-B
- Typography-C
- Typography-D
- Typography-E
- Typography-F
- Typography-G
- Typography-H
- Typography-i&J
- Typography-K
- Typography-L
- Typography-M
- Typography-N
- Typography-O
- Typography-P
- Typography-Q
- Typography-R
- Typography-S
- Typography-T
- Typography-U
- Typography-V
- Typography-W
- Typography-X
- Typography-Y
- Typography-Z
- YouTube Videos
- Bob, Mom and Gayle
- Cork, Me and Robbie
- Dad, the Jock
- Diestler house in Gros Fahlenwerder
- Family Art
- Hollywood Art
- House on Pine Street
- Me and Aunt Vivian
- Me and Strawfort Yard
- Me on Stoop
- Me, Mom and the Ostroms
- Mikkjel Mystery
- Mom and cat
- Mom with Doll
- Prank Closet
- Prank lunch
- Strawfort and Fishstore
- Tribute Art
- Two Wheeling
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