…I Am A Tree

Me & Tom, originally uploaded by Kyrion.

Over on a private Dead board I hang out on, some folks started posting old photos of themselves, so I dug out a couple of me from the summer of 1980, scanned them and uploaded ‘em.

That’s me on the left, grooving with my Doobie Brothers shirt — I think we’d seen them the night before, if I’m not mistaken. That’s my buddy, Tom, on the right, and we were at his girlfriend Kathy’s parents’ cottage on a lake up in western Connecticut somewhere for a nice, lazy barbecue. We and all our friends were in a community theater production of Carousel this particular summer (I did four summer shows in consecutive summers, culminating in 1981 when I played Riff in West Side Story).

Man, I was thin and in shape back then.

Different days for sure. While I can relate to the me in that photo, it’s so far back in time that it really does seem like a different person.

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