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Keoki McIver
Keoki McIver was born in 1942 and adopted by a couple in their late 30s. Keoki was very difficult. (Turned out to be Bi-Polar). They tried to kill him in various ways after the Tid...view moreKeoki McIver was born in 1942 and adopted by a couple in their late 30s. Keoki was very difficult. (Turned out to be Bi-Polar). They tried to kill him in various ways after the Tidal wave. He grew up with mostly adults around him.
At age 10 he was presented with a bully of a step brother. Eventually, they had such a violent relationship – they were sent to separate military schools for high school. Keoki entered the Marine corps after high school for three years and was designated sniper and scuba diver. After service he attended college. He obtained a bachelors of science and a masters of education with graduate work in counseling psychology and creative writing. He worked for Firestone Tire Co. and managed two stores. He quit after four years to teach science.
He taught science for four years and helped build a Polynesian voyaging canoe while camped on a deserted island in Canada for four months. Canoe destroyed in a storm ending broken on a beach in Oregon. He spent one season as a ski bum in squaw valley, calif.
Then worked as a counselor in a high school. Left to become a Hippie homesteader and built a house out of a 25000-gallon used redwood water tank. He also worked as a private investigator, outside travel agent, and then finished as working as a telescope operator and planetary photographer on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. He spent 20 years as a tax practitioner for business clients.
Then he retired to port Townsend, Washington, to sit and watch the view over discovery bay to the snow-capped mountains, where he wrote this book.view less