User:Yosemite4

Welcome to my page, Yosemite4. My screen name references the old climbing camp at the foot of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

Transparency

I believe in transparency and working together to make something happen as opposed to putting up obstacles and fighting. Most of the Wiki articles I hope to submit are inspired by a person I have known, or that I think has made a significant contribution that went unrecognized, perhaps because they weren't on the radar or didn't play their politics correctly.

Talk If you press the 'talk' button up top, we can communicate beneath the protected veil of digital seclusion. Personally, I love F2F interaction and talking with people. Imagine UC Berkeley in the '70s, where we sat in the coffee houses on Telegraph Avenue drinking espresso discussing ideas while puffing on clove cigarettes.

Print Print once made the world go round. For five hundred years, the process of bookmaking, literally remained the same, creating an archival record of humanity. Some people still believe paper is gold, but the gold is disappearing. Love the smell of ink on a freshly printed sheet and once, long ago, marking up a typewritten sheet for a typesetter. I am the publisher-founder of Spotted Dog Press, which republished the important book Born Free and Equal by Ansel Adams on the internment of American citizens at Manzanar in Inyo County, California. The book was at press on 9/11/2001, when I made an editorial decision to add an abstracted image of the American flag behind the cover image of Joyce Nakamura Okazaki. Those who survived the WWII internment, and are still alive today, were children and American citizens at the time of their internment.