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Random Neural Firings
Riding my bike through the vacant lot at the corner of Almond Avenue and San Antonio where the Fire Station is now, Brook Trout Looks. Little League Baseball at Hillview, The SCVAL, Orchids and Brickbats, Mings, Dodge Ridge, Camino Bowl, Vespas, Gemello’s with My Dad, “San Antonio” Jr. High. Sittin’ in the high grass in a big field right on Los Altos Avenue, Motts and Hairhats, Watching Sputnik in our back yard, Cubing, Paisley Shirts, Teenage Sex, First Love/First Rejection, The Cardinal Shop, Dumpster Diving with Chris Girard in 8th Grade behind the Los Altos Pharmacy, The Stilettos, Mrs. Bell, Friends who you think of and look up and find they died 25 years ago…or earlier, Digging Latrines and Fixing trails at Duvenicks Ranch with Boy Scouts, Going inside the Moffett Field Hanger, Stanford Football Games, 19 cent Dairy Belle Freeze Hamburgers, Jokes about Spanglers Mortuary, Riding 10 speeds up through the hills to Stanford Shopping Center, Christmas Tree Lots at the entrance to Main and State Streets, The Emporium, Kirks, Telling my mom I’m going to the library (ha ha), Climbing on the roofs of Hillview, Covington and LAHS on summer weekends, JFK, The Los Altos High Pool, Sweet stuff in wax coke bottles from The Little Store over by Santa Rita, When Jim (Randy) Regnolds fell off the backstop onto home plate at Almond and broke his pelvis. 8 years later when he was killed in Vietnam, Diane Goddard and Karen McSherrry crashing their mom’s car into Mike Popovich’s house when they were 14, Skee Ball and Pronto Pups on the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, Slumber parties where you didn’t sleep, David Kline’s swimming pool, my mitt on my handlebars, BA’s in high school, my little black and white tv in my room, Blue Chip Stamps, “Rippin’” a line drive, the sounds at night, air that was always clean, magic clouds, the smell of her hair, being young.