Catalina

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We moved to Marin County in 1980 where I ran workshops on true love and friendship. A few years later, I dissolved the organization. Instead of wearing ashes and a sackcloth, I became a peddlar, then a rep for a wholesale auto parts distributor. A year later, I started my own company which I ran for 23 years, during which time I learned to tell stories and developed materials for the screenplays I later wrote.

"Catalina", built in Oakland in 1907, one of the oldest boats on the Bay. 50' long, it was big and heavy and beautiful. I replaced the planks in the