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Manifest
2020

Manifest

I know I’m not alone in wondering this. Can we manifest things? Don’t worry – you are at the SBHOPPER blog. I know I don’t get cosmic very often. I have not dropped acid. I really don’t even know what acid is. LSD? Timothy Leary stuff? I

Scott Baerst Jul 22, 2020 • 5 min read
Past Life: Turkey
Byzantium

Past Life: Turkey

I should be finishing up my March For Our Lives post. Instead I got distracted by some old photos of Turkey. I taught English in Istanbul from 2000-2002. Incredible people, city, and country. For a while I had the notion of charting a course for retirement in a small Turkish

Scott Baerst Mar 27, 2018 • 2 min read
16mm

Istanbul, 16mm footage from early 1950s

My grandfather was a field artillery officer in the U.S. Army and served in the European Theater during World War II. I think he served primarily in a staff position in Patton’s Third Army, but I need to confirm the specifics. He always liked cameras and had a

Scott Baerst Sep 21, 2017 • 1 min read
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