Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat. And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence. And when ye come into an house, salute it. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. — Matthew 10:8-14

We ret’d. to Lexington, arriving at 5:30 PM, going through Atlanta and Idlewild.

Rode home with HS.

Finished the undercoating on Jeep.

My suit from Filene’s was at home on my arrival. One pair pants & the coat fit good, the other pair is slightly tight in the waist. It is good to have a new suit again. First winter one since 1955.

Entered a few more elements onto the data flow diagram.

Left Lab at 3 PM for airport — arrived at Satellite Inn, Cocoa Beach, Florida at 1130 PM.

Rode with HS.

Left for airport at 3 PM for trip to Patrick AFB. Arrived at Satellite Inn at 11:30 PM.

Returned home, leaving Princeton at 0845 and arriving home at 8 PM after several stops.

Warm, clear

Left Princeton at 0845 after a good breakfast. Stopped at Eberts Auto Parts on Rt. 46 in Parsipanny, NJ, to get some Jeep and Ford parts. Arrived home at 8 PM.

Talked to Dan Linde in AFOOA re: N-Z etc. Larry Starkey is starting a defense study; he was in a briefing so I’ll have to return to see him. I should also see Rand & NORAD.

Spent two hours with Dr. Wm. E. Wood at 1832 Connecticut Avenue. He didn’t think it a good idea to grind down my teeth to obtain a better bite. Instead he referred me to Dr. Kurt Thoma, 1146 Beacon Street (LO 6-3324) an oral surgeon. He will send a letter to Dr. Thoma with a cc to me.

Went up to Princeton in the afternoon.

Met with Dan Linde in AFOOA to see who is doing what.

Did 2 errands in DCA — then out to see Dr. Wood, DDS, who sent me to Dr. Kurt Thooma in Boston re: my jaw.

Left DCA at 3 PM — arrived in Princeton at 8 PM.

Sat in a classified session on Realtime Comm and an unclassified session on radar which was quite good.

Left Baltimore at 4:30 PM for DCA, where I checked into the Arva Motel after dinner at the Methodist Cafeteria.

Left Baltimore 16:30 for DCA. Stopped at Sears in Bladensburg for an oil change & a new oil filter.

Called Bill Weber after checking in at the Arva Motel on Arlington Blvd. Went out to his home for the evening, which was most pleasant.

Listened to classified sessions all day. Saw Walter Pike of the BRD/FAA briefly; he said BRD is being organized to separate the admin from the technical!

Left for Baltimore at 08:20, arriving at the Baltimore Hotel at 12:00.

Listened to classified talks all afternoon — saw Al Dunbar who is now with Litton Industries. Went out to dinner with Al & Carol Lea, having a most pleasant time.

Rain

Took family to SS, picking up May & John, as Mary is in NH for the weekend. After a good dinner, left for Princeton at 1:28 PM, arriving at 9:30 PM. It was good to see Howard, Winifred and Anne again. Howard may go out to Franklin College in Indiana.

Had 16 copies (1 each) of as many BTL & CAL graphs and tables made for use in the NZ report; 5 are Secret, 4 Confidential, and the remaining 3, Unclassified.

Saw a good film by Lt. Schuman, USN about the bathyscape “Trieste,” is was quite good.

Clear – cooler

Thundershowers & rain most of the night.

JCH quite wakeful — LCH & I got very little sleep.

Went to the Surplus Property Office at Hanscom AFB to see the gear that AKM wanted me to inspect; it is mostly APQ-13 gear. Also saw a Chrysler 3 hp upright water-cooled air conditioning unit and a sump pump.

Took family to Shoppers World to get DCH a suit and a pair of shoes. DCH got a copy of Red Pony, the last of the books he is to read for the summer.

Overcast
Hot – Humid

Left for home at 0830, via Augusta and the Maine Turnpike. The engine continued to overheat. At a sttion on the Turnpike — Kennebunk, ME, I noticed water at the end of the tail pipe and the mechanic found water in the oil. This must mean that a head gasket is leaking into the cooling system! Had lots of trouble the rest of the way home, draining and filling the cooling system three times from the trailer water tank.

Home at 7 PM — odometer 45150 — 2376 miles — 173 gallons gas — 13.7 mpg.

Glad to be home.

Cool – partly overcast

Went on a nature hike on the summit of Cadillac Mtn. for 2 hours. It was fine; perhaps we could come back next year for a week.

LCH & MM went down to Southwest Harbor to see Jeanette Vine, who was taking care of their store.

I took the interference suppression off of the spark plugs; this seemed to make the engine run much better.

The inside of the car needs more coat-hanger hooks, a Light in the rear, and a speaker at the rear.

A pleasant day.

(odo 44872)

Early fog

Took car to Ford agent in Sussex, NB, who found dwell ok, the vacuum line bent badly. He fixed this, but it still heated. I set the timing back, twice but to no avail.

Stopped at 5:45 PM at the Bareadreu Trailer Park on Mt. Desert Island.

Tried again to find the Vine family, but didn’t again.

We may stay here tomorrow.

The Vine’s called after we had turned in.

Rain

A front from the south is going northeast.

We got under way at 0830, and stopped in Charlottetown for some last minute buying. Left on the 1230 boat from Port Borden.

the engine overheats badly; had the timing pointer bent back at Moncton and the engine re-timed to no avail. Retarded timing twice.

Stopped at Pine MbCd, Sussex (odo 44484).

Wind & Rain

The sand at Northumberland Camp was too much for us, so we moved to Brudenell River Provincial Park in the afternoon, doing some sight-seeing on the way. LCH wanted to see her childhood home, so we drove by it on the way to Brudenell.

I picked up a fishing license at Montague from the RCMP, who was quite cooperative in suggesting fishing and camping places.

Cool – Clear

Left Fundy National Park at 0845 and managed to get on the 1:55 PM ferry between Cape Tormentine & Port Borden on P.E.I. We had a bit of lunch during the 55 minute trip across the 12 mile stretch to P.E.I. It was quite pleasant; the steamers are operated by the CNR and Pullman cars are run between Charlottetown, P.E.I. and Montreal. There are 2 tracks on the ferries that terminate in bumpers with standard RR couplers. All autos have to back off the ferries.

There is too much sand & dirt exposed at the new campground we stopped in – a fine beach, tho.

Left on our vacation about 0845, pulling the trailer.

The engine overheated so much I finally stopped twice to have the timing checked and the lower radiator hose removed, as well as the thermostat. We stopped at the State Park at Camden, where I had the points gap checked, finding that they weren’t opening properly!

Camden (4,000 winter – 11,000 summer) is a beautiful town.

Drove home, leaving Princeton at 0900. Stopped for a short time in NY to pick up a headboard at 9 E. 54th Street. It was 100°F in the car all day. Arrived home at 5 PM, having driven up through Connecticut.

Hot – Humid

Left Princeton at 0900; Anne with me to go to Canada with us, Peter to spend some time in N.Y.

Stopped at 9 East 54th Street to pick up a walnut veneer headboard; at $80 I suppose we got our money’s worth. NYC was hot & sticky. Came up the NE Thruway, getting home at 5 PM.

Had a profitable discussion with George Riesz at BTL with Nelson Brigham.

Left at 4 PM, going on down to Princeton.

Hot, Humid

Found a red padded dash and some other parts at Eberts on Rt. 46 in Parsippany.

Left BTL at 4:00 PM and after picking up the parts, drove on down to Princeton. Peter was home and it was good to see him; he seems to have grown up — a tribute to the Marines and his good sense.

Howard and Winifred will pick up DCH at Brookwoods on August 26 so we won’t have to.

Reworked the RT paper, laying out the material for the typist (Gail).

Left the Lab at 1135, stopping at home for lunch. Picked up radio at Maynard, and continued on, arriving at Parsippany at 8:35 PM, after a pleasant ride. Found I had the heat turned on after about 2 hours! It was about 90°F anyway! Arrived at Garden Motor Lodge at 835 PM, couldn’t find Nelson Brigham.

Left for Whippany, NJ at 2:30 PM after getting the car radio in. Arrived at 8:35 PM at Garden Motor Lodge on Rt. 46. Couldn’t find Nelson Brigham.

Overcast – cool

Left Princeton at 10:30 AM; arrived home about 7:15 PM, picking the children up near the railroad station; Mary sent them home on the 6 PM train.

Read about 45 pages of a NZ document.

Fog – drizzle

Went home about 1 PM, stopping for gas & the car radio in Maynard. Left for Princeton about 3:45 PM, arriving at 10:30, tired but glad to get there. We took Nancy.

Rec’d Mass Income Tax refund of $114. Sent it to the bank.

Mary came out to take care of the children.

Left Princeton at 11 AM and found LCH & JCH on time. They had a good trip. I tried at Hudson’s at 105 3rd Avenue to get a coat for Al, but $25.00 was too much.

Went up the NY Thruway & Mass Turnpike, getting home at 1030 PM. We were both tired.

Dr. Lyons took out the rest of the stitches.

Went up to Princeton — LCH on to Boston.

Clear

Left the hospital and went over to the railroad station, taking the 10:41 AM to Trenton. LCH stayed on the train and went on home to take care of the children. Howard and Winifred met me and took me over to Princeton to their home. I’m sore and not well, but hope things will straighten out. The car is supposed to be repaired by the end of the week and LCH will return so we can drive it back.

The hospital bill was $260!

Gave JFN my comments in longhand on his program. Left for Princeton at 3 PM after a physical exam at the MIT clinic and 2-1/2 hours wasted while I waited for some repair on the car. Had to stop twice for a new thermostat & hoses, finally arrived in Princeton at 1030 PM after driving most of the way in a hard rainstorm.

Clear – Rain PM

Up at 0610 to get to the office early, but didn’t get there until after 0800. I have an appointment at the MIT Clinic at 1130 for a physical exam.

After the exam, I had to wait until 2:45 for the car to be tuned and the breather filter cleaned. The engine overheated, and I put in both hoses and a new thermo. It still ran hot until more water was put in.

Arrived at CHH’s at 1030 PM after driving in the rain all the way. It was good to see Howard & Winifred.

Left Oak City for Boston at 0830, transferring to a jet at St. Louis. My seatmate from St. Louis to Boston was a Mr. Masselli of the Electric Power Cooperative in the Midwest that supplies power to the AEC; he must be an executive. I enjoyed talking photography with him as he was carrying a Nikon Reflex with an attached & coupled Light meter with an f2.0 lens. The rangefinder is brilliant. I wish I could get one of these cameras, but it costs $349!

Arrived home about 1900.

Found letter from Mr. Halaby’s office re: the Committee on Safety for the FAA.

Went on to Boston, getting home about 7 PM, after a $10 taxi ride from Harvard Square.

Finally decided to go to Ft. Sill. We were able to get a 1050 TWA flight from Tucson to Oklahoma City. My ticket was re-written twice.

JLV went to his home town in the neighborhood. I decided to go on home tomorrow, with JLV going to Ft. Sill Monday, since he is already in the West (?) rather than coming back out here.

Stayed at the ‘Y’ and went swimming.

Went up to Oklahoma City, where I stayed the night.

Arrived at Ft. Huachuca at 0820, spending the day with the ADP Dept. (Col. M. W. Muller), Major Black, and the RW/CSC people on Nuclear and Intelligence sub-systems. I’m about convinced that we should go to the operations people, say in the 7th Army, for the overall reaction times, rather that to continue going to the functional area people.

Left Ft. Huachuca at 3 PM for Tucson, going via the Saguaro National Monument. It was quite pleasant. Stayed at the Holiday Inn in Tucson. Put in over an hour at the airport getting space back to Boston to arrive earlier that 11 PM.

Spent the day at the ADP Department at Ft. Huachuca going over our need for data, which they did not have.

Went back to Tucson, via the Saguaro National Monument

Left Boston at 0800, arriving at Phoenix about 2:30 PM. Left in an Avis car at 3 PM for Bisby, arriving at 5 PM, where we checked in at the El Rancho Motel.

Windy – warm

Went out to Bisby, Arizona, arriving there about 1700 after a two-hour ride from Tucson

Returned to Boston. What a contrast between the clean West and the dirt of Boston!

Returned to Boston. My, what a contrast the newness and cleanliness of the West is in relation to the dirt and grime of Boston.

Drove home from the Lab in JLV’s Plymouth.

Checked out at 0900 and drove to the Palomar Observatory, then on up to Redlands and then to Santa Monica.

Went to the observatory on Palomar Mountain, going by Riverside to Santa Monica.

Drove down to Tiajuana, returning about 7 PM. There was some haze. We had lunch in Coronado, and visited an excellent small Oriental art store where I the rice paper with butterflies; I bought 5 sheets @ $1.25. They also had some fine Chinese rugs.

Made a trip to Tiajuana. It is a dirty border town of 59,000 that lives on the American tourists.

Left Boston at 1125 via UAL 853 for LA, arriving at 3:35 PM PST. Drove down to Newport Beach and checked in at the Jamaica Inn at 5:20 PM.

Rec’d. a call from a Mr. Gast at Aeronutronics at 9 PM re: a mtg. at 9 AM tomorrow.

Left for LA at 11 AM arriving at 3:50 PM via AAL 707.

Made point to Lt. Col. Hall of

a) the need for integrating the subject matter from each functional area to provide the basis for command control, and
b) the existence of Forrester’s techniques — in relation to a laboratory for establishing the essentials for Command Control.

Talked some more with Major McCarren re: specific other inputs to the diagram noted yesterday.

Went to Archives Center & noted a number of documents on exercises; those by ORD seemed most useful.

Left for Boston at 2 PM, arriving at 10 PM; it took 2 more hours to get home! It was snowing.

Left C&GSC for Boston at 2 PM arriving at Boston at 10 PM. It then took 2 hours to get on out home! It was snowing and the a/c was in the stack for some time before landing.

Left Logan airport at 0800 for O’Hare/Chicago, arriving there at 0925 CST; went on to KC at 1105, arriving at 1210. Went up to Ft. Leavenworth in a staff car, arriving at Lt.Col. C.P. Hall’s office about 1 PM.

After some preliminary discussion with Lt. Col. Brown, he turned us over to Lt. Col. Kelley, who is concerned with the effects of nuclear weapons. They have taken most of the arithmetic out of the weapons selection process. We need a copy of FM 101-31 with change 1; I believe we can get the yields and LR from this. Brown later took us to his superior, Col. Monroe, who had a better grasp of what is going on.

Will talk to Intelligence gents at 0830 tomorrow, and then see what the archives hold.

Went into town for a Mexican dinner.

Worked on 1960 Income Taxes; income over $20,000!

Left Logan Airport at 0805 for Kansas City and Ft. Leavenworth, arriving at C&GSC at 1 PM! Weather good.

Went home (Boston) via AAL 86 + NAL 482. Left Detroit 0815; arr. Somerville 1430.

+ 3˚F

Left Detroit at 0815, arrived Idlewild 0930; Left for Boston at 11 AM, arriving 12:30 PM. Finally got out to Somerville at 1430, due to a subway tie-up.

JCH has bad cold, the others are well.

Went out to the Ford Museum.

It snowed all day.

Got space on 22 January on AAL Nr. 86 to Idlewild and NAL Nr. 482 to Boston.

Went out to the Ford Museum on a site-seeing trip. It was a most instructive trip. A separate exhibit was that of current sports cars, US and foreign.

Met with Col. Halper & co about 0830 to renew our conversations. Their concept of a System Manager is based on the need of someone to manage administrative operations after the system is in being. Our present need is for a set-up to oversee the development of the CCIS. Col. Halper suggested a) that, if possible, recommendations should be directly related to conclusions, and b) that related efforts or areas of fruitful activities that have been discovered during the study be itemized also.

Discussed their work with Messrs. Springer & Greene who said that they were glad to be freed from MOMAR; he suggests that the FATOC & FADSOC be combined.

Left for airport at 2 PM.

Left airport (Indianapolis) at 4:25 PM

Arr. Detroit 5:20 PM

Found the 7:30 PM train to Boston was canceled. No air space so came to Henrose Hotel.

Left for Detroit at 420 PM.

Found that the NYC train for Boston from Detroit was cancelled a/c of dock pickets in the Buffalo Yards of NYC, so, sat in Detroit.

Started to work on organizing tomorrow’s briefing at 5 AM, working until 7 AM. Rode to work with Mr. Darr, arriving at 0815. Went directly to Conf. Room A263 and finished making a card for each slide. Started a dry run at 1010 with JFN & RJB. My part took 50 minutes, Joe’s an hour. JFN wants less detail and more of the system configuration, so we ill have to rework our briefing. He gave us a set of multilith masters with Section Two rewritten; I didn’t have time to even read it before leaving at 2 PM. Copied 3 paragraphs.

Left Logan at 535 PM. Reworked briefing, making a list of slid titles and selecting the ones that show system configuration.

Arrived at Indianapolis at 950 PM CDT; we were met by an Army driver who took us to Ft. Benjamin Harrison in Harrison, 45 minutes from the airport. We were put up in the BOQ Officers Qtrs. Worked until 130 AM to rewrite the Theory of Command for our talk.

Had disc. with Mr. Hussey re: will, in his office. Decided to name both Al and Edith as trustees & guardians of our children if we die in a common disaster.

Left for Indianapolis via AAL jet at 0530 PM; arrived there at 9:50 PM. Got to bed at 1:30 AM 19 January because JFH & I had to review our briefings.

with a truckload of stuff, it’s too complicated to camp extensively. and, in retrospect, not much to say anyway. got to get back in Prescott to get organized for the ensuing departure.

dislocated, and wind-blown to another place (in the night). retrospecting from a great distance. not a travelog, but a long narrative story in pieces. a different kind of writing, but not too different: carrying some mapping of the movements imposed by life as it is/was. question: would all the fragments, displayed, end up having a meaning? or would they remain fragmented, and infinitely far from the lived life? can the flow that one feels while passing through this immediate temporal region be truly experienced by an Other, or not.

the San Andreas Fault dominates the feel of this place, though it is only a scarp of low hills cut by displaced drainage washes. I didn’t get to a focal point of the flat valley floor, a complicated outcrop with a sizable pictograph/petroglyph wall up near the entrance to the Monument. it has restricted access, and was closed when I came into the valley. but today, head further south to the southern exit from the valley, where the dirt track parallels the fault scarp a hundred meters to the east. the displaced gullies cannot be immediately decoded by their odd shapes — where the topography is shifting north/south 33-to-37 mm per year. ya’ gotta run to keep up!

Follow the fault scarp east-south-east across the Grapevine and down into the Mojave near Victorville, and end up in a very isolated area of the near Mojave — up at altitude, so it’s very cold and very windy, though that’s nothing new in the High Mojave in December. Simply unload the back of the truck enough to curl up and sleep.

If you look for the truth outside yourself,
It gets farther and farther away.
Today walking alone, I meet it everywhere I step.
It is the same as me, yet I am not it.
Only if you understand it in this way
Will you merge with the way things are.
– Tung-Shan

Loss, and the new. Preparing for the forward-fall to engage the conditions that hydrocarbon burning precipitate: back on the road, hydrocarbon flaring, with a slow drive down to Carizzo Plains via the “Petroleum Highway.” Along which are the still-operational fields of California’s early oil boom. Drive by the Kettleman Dome area, a structure that I examined as my first exploration review at Unocal back in 1982. I had to gather all alternative methods data, produce some maps and structural interpretations, and an exploration strategy that correlated seismic and well-log data sets.

Tracking the San Andreas Fault. The knife-through-birthday-cake-icing scar that runs from the here to the there of California. Rupture zone riding. Making images and writing. The usual. Or the unusual. Beginning or Ending.

This after the Solstice lunar eclipse last deep night which hung in a cleared sky slowly transforming eye-socket receivers into Light-cups, catching a burnt sienna flux from every sun-rise-and-set on the limb of the planet, at the moment. Very fine. And gone for this life’s time. On Earth as it is in Heaven.

On this movement, at this time, cars fill Interstate-5 everywhere, all the time. The pavement is uneven and shattered in some places from the heaviness of the truck traffic as well as the bankrupt state of the state of the Union. wads of toilet paper fill the grass at the scenic overlook like albino poppies. Later, I leave the interstate for less travelled roads, much less travelled, I see very few cars at all. But then there are oil pumps and pipes.

I miss the closing dialogue session with Doug Kahn. Goodbyes and a rushed departure from the house via taxi to the airport, a short wait for the hop to Auckland and on back to Oz for 20-some hours before heading boreal-spheric for a bit. Bags are mostly packed, but the trip to NZ made for some juggling and nervousness when booking two international flights within such at short time-span.

Ten solid and busy days leaves quite a positive first impression of New Zealand, although this is no surprise, given the richness of Kiwi encounters over the years. It was a bit distressing to see the extent of degradation of natural system that has and is still occurring, but this is a legacy everywhere there are humans. We, as life, have altered the planetary system (even as we begin to observe other planetary systems — can this act of observation alter those systems as well?). There are limits to the energy flux that a planet has access to, based on solar (Light) and gravitational sources. We, again, as life, have been increasing the entropy of the system at an incredible rate, mostly through the release of eons of stored solar (photosynthetic) carbon in two centuries.

Up at 0400 to make the hugely early flight to eNZed. Had to be totally packed for the US as well, as I’ll have only another 20 hours back in Sydney, in transit between Auckland – Sydney – San Francisco.

A new country, a new place to visit. The national memorial service is happening when we land, so I manage to record a minute’s silence in the baggage claim. Some people were oblivious. People are watching the ubiquitous flat-screen teevees rather intently. The cost of extractives, but only the most obvious one.

The jump flight from Auckland down to Whanganui reveals both sides of possible landscapes. Massive clear-cut forestry in the highlands, and intensive farming in the more level areas — both with the attendant geomorphology of erosion features marring the terrain. Much has changed since colonization, surely. Then there are the remaining highland forests which are not yet decodable, having not met them on the ground.

Finally get into Whanganui, Julian picks me up at the airport in their 1988(?) Honda named Buzzy Bee (?) — a vehicle with a history, too bad I’m writing this in far distant retrospect, or elsewise I could relate the story. It was funny. Great to finally meet Julian, and we immediately start up a substantial dialogue as I am dropped into the whirlwind of family life surrounding the community effort aimed at the Greenbench (Gallery space) and the ADA Symposium. I tell him that I am at his service, and that, officially, my workshop starts now. It’s all about energy, presence, be-ing, and raising these topics in whatever contexts that arise in the next ten days.

The evening starts with a rousing performance of Aladdin by the children of the Brunswick School located in the countryside near Whanganui. Julian and Sophie’s three daughters recently started attending the school. This was followed by some photo-ops — meeting more of Julian’s family and other folks in the community — in the playground, as the soft, mild summer twiLight closed in.