The author has lived in Berkeley, the Cascades wilderness, Kona, Davis, the Mauna Loa rainforest wilderness. Her involvement in graduate school and anti-war politics eventuated in six years work in legislative analysis. But missing her aesthetic creativity, she retired to a couple of years at the UC Graduate Theological Union studying Aquinas on grace, as well as upgrading her professional certifications to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. "To have been let into the most intimate depths of so many lives, sorting conflicts and minds' assumptions has been a privilege way beyond what I had hoped for...