Table of Contents

WHAT I REMEMBER ABOUT MY LIFE

by David Frank Phillips II

Title Page and Dedication

Table of Contents

Table of Supplements

Maps, showing places mentioned in the text

1. Manhattan
2. Columbia University
3. Philadelphia
4. San Francisco
5. Washington
6. Truro
7. Provincetown

Preface

Author’s Note

Colophon

War Baby (1944-1945)

• Document 1-1: Birth Certificate
• Document 1-2: Horoscope

My Family

Early Childhood (1945-1955)

1. Apartment 6-C
2. What I Remember from the 1940s
3. My World on Fifth Avenue
4. Playthings
5. Domestic Sidelights
   • Document 3A-1: Floor plan of Apartment 7-C
   • Document 3A-2: Sotheby’s auction catalogue

Later Childhood (1955-1960)

6. 112 East 70th Street
7. Youthful Interests
8. Happy or Sad?
   • Document 3B-1: Psychological Testing Report

School

9. Early Schools
10. Collegiate

Books

1. Introduction
2. Childhood
3. Adolescence
4. College
5. Maturity
   • Document 4-1: Map of Pooh’s neighborhood
   • Document 4-2: Map of Oz
   • Document 4-3: Cartoon by Gillam and inspiration by Gérôme

Geography, Maps and Boundaries

• Document 5-1: A page from Scott’s Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue

Heraldry

1. Heraldry and me
2. Heraldic pleasures
   1. Unmediated pleasures
   2. Cognitive pleasures
   3. The heraldic vision
   4. Image and archetype
   5. Artistic tension
   6. Elements of excellence
3. My arms and flag
   • Document 6-1: My arms as Pope

Family power relationships

• Document 7-1: Poem by Philip Larkin

Prisoner (1960-1961)

Walden (1961-1963)

The Phillips Millions

Columbia College (1963-1968)

1. Freshman Year
2. Sophomore and Junior Years
3. Interregnum
4. Senior Year
5. Vignettes and reflections
   • Document 11-1: College transcript
   • Document 11-2: College diploma

Vietnam, the Draft and the Columbia Strike

1. The War in Vietnam
2. The Draft
3. The National Conference for New Politics
4. The Columbia Strike
   • Document 12-1: Student Draft Information Center
   • Document 12-2: Universal Life Church ordination certificate
   • Document 12-3: The Dodge Hall Group
   • Document 12-4: Cartoon by Charles Saxon

Politics

• Document 13-1: Two letters to President Clinton
• Document 13-2: Cartoon by Pat Oliphant
• Document 13-3: E-mails explaining my 2000 vote for Nader

Law School (1968-1971)

• Document 14-2: Law School transcript
• Document 14-1: Law School diploma

Me and the Law (Part One)

1. Kennedy & Rhine
2. First retirement
3. Re-entry
   • Document 15-1: Long letter from 1971 on why I left Kennedy & Rhine
   • Document 15-2: California law license
   • Document 15-3: U.S. Court of Appeals admission certificate
   • Document 15-4: Massachusetts law license

San Francisco I (1971-1973)

• Document 16-1: Taxicab driver’s license
• Document 16-2: “The Veteran Civil Servant”

Drugs

1. Sugar
2. Tobacco
3. Alcohol
4. Amphetamines
5. Cannabis
6. Psychedelics
7. Cocaine, opiates and other delicacies
   • Document 17-1: California Compassionate Use Act of 1996
   • Document 17-2: Compassionate Use Act letter
   • Document 17-3: Page of a letter to Peter Miller about LSD

Religion

1. Background
2. Instant Episcopalian
3. Hit by the Meatball
4. Israel
5. Buddhism
6. Hindu
7. Ganesh Bhakta
8. Where I Am Now
   • Documents 18-1 Letter on being tied to a text
   • Documents 18-2 Articles of Religion
   • Documents 18-3 E-mails written while re-reading the Old Testament
   • Documents 18-4 E-mail on a universal concept of justice
   • Documents 18-5 Vedanta study notes
   • Documents 18-6 Litany of 108 names of Lord Ganesha
   • Documents 18-7 Icon of Lord Ganesha.

The Leariad

1. Leary in My Life
2. The Eight-Level Theory of Consciousness
   • Document: 19-1 Obituary for Rosemary Woodruff-Leary

Libraries and Library School (1973-1974)

1. Libraries
2. Library School
   • Document 20-1: Library School diploma
   • Document 20-2: Library School transcript
   • Document 20-3: Student loan discharge

Washington (1974-1975)

Asian Interlude (1975-1976)

1. Prelude
2. Okinawa
3. Taiwan
4. Escape
   • Document: 22-1 “The Elephant Story”

San Francisco II (1976-1982)

• Document 23-1: San Francisco State University transcript

Librarian

1. Washington
2. San Francisco
   • Document 24-1: Library budget memo
   • Document 24-2: Plan of the Farella library
   • Document 24-3: Memorandum: “What I do as librarian”
   • Document 24-4: Poem by a lawyer

Cape Cod (1982-1988)

1. Background
2. Washed ashore
3. Leaving the Cape
   • Document 25-1: Boundaries of the Truro property
   • Document 25-2: Floor plan and pictures of the Truro property
   • Document 25-3: Letter re preparing Truro house for sale
   • Document 25-4: Sales brochure for the Truro house
   • Document 25-5: Pamet backgammon
   • Document 25-6: Paintings of Truro and Provincetown
   • Document 25-7: Interiors of the Big House at Truro

My Broadcasting Career

1. Radio
2. Television
   • Document 26-1: Typical playlist, Lower Cape Concert Hall
   • Document 26-2: Proposal for Show & Tell with David Phillips
   • Document 26-3: List of Show and Tell episodes
   • Document 26-4: Equipment for shooting outside the studio
   • Document 26-5: Plaque from Channel 8
   • Document 26-6: Staff picture, WOMR-FM

San Francisco III (1988-2010)

1. Events
2. Slices of Life
   • Document 27A-1: Order of the Compassionate Heart
   • Document 27A-2: List of jazz performers

Me and the Law (Part Two)

1. Capital cases
2. Research and writing
3. Litigation writing
4. Practice development writing
5. How I worked
6. Vignettes
7. Discontented and conflicted
8. Discontented
9. Conflicted
10. Second retirement
11. Golden Gate University
    • Document 27B-1: West Key Number System
    • Document 27B-2: E-mail explaining my work arrangement
    • Document 27B-3: E-mail to Peter Miller on attitude toward work
    • Document 27B-4: Law school faculty adjunct appointment

Home

1. My house
2. My neighborhood
3. San Francisco
   • Document 27C-1: Views of my house and street (1989)
   • Document 27C-2: Plat of my block, showing my property
   • Document 27C-3: Floor plan of my house
   • Document 27C-4: Deed to my house
   • Document 27C-5: Views of San Francisco

Notebooks

Collecting

1. Stamps
2. Other collections
3. How to collect

Travels

1. Early travels in America
2. The County Project
3. Later travels in America
4. Europe
5. India
6. Other places
7. Cities
8. How I travel
   • Document 30-1: Countries visited
   • Document 30-2: The County Project
   • Document 30-4: Letter describing 1973 cross-country trip
   • Document 30-4: ”How not to get sick in the Third World”
   • Document 30-5: E-mails from India
   • Document 30-6: E-mails from New York

Culture and Taste

1. Books
2. Theatre
3. Film
4. Music
5. Broadcasting
6. Newspapers
7. Painting
8. Decorative Arts
9. Architecture
10. Comics
11. Clothes
12. Food
13. Cars
14. Tattoos and piercings
15. Ceremonial

Friends

Love

Health

• Document 34-1: Serious Listeners

Summing Up

1. Regrets
2. Satisfactions
3. The present and the future

Epilogue: November 2018