Left Publicity Photo of Wild Bill that was used to promote his landmark puzzles sold in three dimensional boxes that portrayed the landmarks. 

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   My memoirs entitled:

In the vineyards near my ranch in cool of the evening sugar comes to the grape

The title of my memoir is true. It requires the cool of the evening in the vineyards for the sugar go come to the grape. Without sugar the grape is not a saleable commodity. In life one must be relaxed like the cool of the evening to read the cues of life. These are the cues of health, sexuality, love and passion and everything that makes life worth living. Remember In the cool of the evening sugar comes to the grape.

My philosophies.

When a door closes a window of opportunity opens You have to be like the cool evening and relax and look for the opportunity. I continually am amazed that in my own life whenever a door closes the window of opportunity is always better!!! This requires the courage to look out that window and grasp the opportunity. In fact, once I came to embrace this philosophy I say to myself if that door of whatever I am doing ever closes I will not be depressed but on the contrary I will embrace the opportunity and look for that window of opportunity.  Lost your job, your marriage, a death of a loved one. All those doors that close have windows of opportunity. Just look in the cool of the evening for that window of opportunity.

Accomplish your goal by starting at the end result and then work backward Discover what you want then visualize it, dream it, think it and sleep on it. Then you just work backward to find out how to accomplish that goal.  A heat seeking missile finds its target by turning and changing direction as it seeks the heat of the plane it will destroy. Accomplishing a goal is the same in that there will be turns and changes in direction to reach that final goal but the goal may be attainable with this method of visualizing the end result and working towards that goal.. 

They always move the cheese Nothing in life remains the same change is constant. They move the cheese constantly. The cheese is what you want be it security, a good job etc. Just listen to the clues and find out when they move the cheese and go out and sniff around and find out where they moved it to.

Golden Rule Do unto others as you would want them to do to you. This seems so obvious but in practice be prepared that they won't always do unto you as you did unto them. Everyone has their own agenda and you don't change people just by using the Golden Rule.  For example if you giive ten people money and say "pay me back when you can" don't expect the golden rule to kick in ten times just because you would pay someone else back.

Health s the number one priority Your health is a checking account. Your are born with a large balance. Everyday for the rest of your life at 8 a.m. every morning an automatic withdrawal is made from your health checking account which diminishes  your health by that withdrawal. Your day gives you free choices of  health preservation or  additional health withdrawals during the day by your actions. Your health preservation or withdrawals from your account contributed each day  by your actions emotionally, physically and in what you eat. 

Work is what you do the most and it is the repetitive actions of work which causes many health health problems. You must be aware of what health problems will accrue from your work. 

To find out if your work is causing you health problems or if any part of your life emotionally, physically or in what you eat is causing you health problems you must listen to your body. Your body communicates to you through pain. The moment that pain starts it is your signal to determine what you can do to alleviate the cause of the pain. If you heed the call of the pain quickly you can alleviate the cause of the pain with natural methods. The health goal is not to mask the pain with pain relievers but to give you body what it needs to alleviate the pain.  If you don't listen to your bodies pain signals further withdrawals from your health checking account will accrue. Therefore your health is priority one because without it nothing else in life that you cherish can be part of your world. My philosophies

I believe that everyday once must decide the six most important things that must be done that 
day. Then at night one crosses off what one has completed. As I put my wallet, Palm Pilot, car 
keys, eye glasses away and the notes in my pocket I also leave my problems in that drawer to 
pick up the next day. The theory I believe in is sufficient unto the day is the work thereof. 
In this manner I can get a good nights sleep.

Sleep also has its own checking account. You can deposit to your sleep account days ahead of a time in which you will be up for a long time and then you can withdraw from the account at that time for your deposits.  The inverse is true in that you can't keep withdrawing from the account because at some point you will need to rest for that time you withdrew. 

Every day is a gift. It is not to be wasted.                                                                                  Everything that you do in each day must in some way help you accomplish your goals.  

Tranquility

Tranquility is to be free from agitation of mind or spirit. This is a daily goal of mine. I accomplish it at the ranch. When I am in this refuge agitation of mind and spirit is negated from the  environs. As I look at the mini horses herding from one spot to another tranquilly grazing. When I see no agitation of their mind or spirit I get a tranquil feeling and literally feel my blood pressure drop. I have never had high blood pressure but nevertheless feel it drop when I am at the ranch. My blood pressure is 122/78. That is a normal reading but nevertheless that tranquil feeling is worthy of the time spent to accomplish it.

Marriage

Someday you will come to realize that love heals everything and love is all there is.

Arguments in marriage. Don't try to win an argument. Don't try any techniques. If you are in sales don't try sales techniques or any techniques you may know from work. When it comes to affairs of the heart, nothing works to win an argument.

Be sure you know your mate before marriage. The wife will usually change for the first five years to please her husband and do the things he likes but she may resent that change that she made for the rest of the marriage and then never concede again. Resentments in a marriage are held longer by women than men.

You can only possess another person in your memory. Think of that person you knew at point in time and visualize them. That is the memory you have and you can possess that memory at any time.  Keep those wonderful memories alive by recalling them. Then at will you can possess the essence of that person at any time. You can add new memories in life and then have them to recall at any time to keep yourself up and alive and positive whenever you wish. .

What is the essential difference between men and women? I finally figured it out and the answer is below. It took my lifetime to figure this out and my mini horses gave me the answer in watching their courtship activities.
A woman's hormone levels are on a 28 day high and low cycle
A msn's testosterone levels vary hourly

Sex Somehow understanding the sexuality between you and your significant other is easy yet we make it so difficult. Are you sexually attracted to that person? This is the love at first sight stuff. I don't mean do you convince yourself that he or she is secy. I mean what comes naturally. There is no substitute for sexual compatibility. Words can't explain sexual attraction. Listen to yourself, your body and your mind when you are near that person. If you listen to the clues you will know.

Look forward to problems

When you peel the problem open like an onion you will find the seeds its solution buried deep within at the inside last layer. Once you solve your problem you grow from that experience. Unsolved problems will cause the problem to repeat itself and reoccur over and over throughout your life just when you least expect that problem to surface again. Find the lesson in the problem. Learn the lesson to avoid the repetition of that lesson and the hurt that lesson will bring to you throughout your life.

A life without passion isn't worth living A passion is any activity that one engages in with passion. Listen to yourself and find what that passion is and then embrace that passion. This is your life's work that you would do whether you were paid or not. That determines the career for you. Would you do that job if there was no pay???? Where is your passion? 

I believe that everyone has a story to tell of their life. Of course some stories are most interesting than others but nevertheless they have a story to tell. Here is my story. Of course I believe it is an interesting story but that is only because it is my life. On the other hand people who I have related parts of my story to have said "you should write your story. If you go to a rest home and talk to any of the patients that are still lucid you will
find they have a half dozen stories about their life that they love to tell. Each story may have been embellished over time but nevertheless it is a fascinating part of their life.

Who was the most influential person in my life. Without a doubt that would be my dad. If you have a dad that you respect as a child and one who loves you deeply I suspect others than attempt to emulate that person. We see it in the election in 2000 with George W. Bush showing respect for his dad and emulating him by going into the oil business and then following the family business by running for president. It is true of countless others as it is true for me.

Now that I am 59 I find myself emulating my dad when he was fifty nine. For example today I  shelled pomegranates. In fact I have been shelling pomegranates as if it was an obsession. I can remember my dad doing the same with walnuts. He would sit at the kitchen table with a heavy metal block and a hammer and as it was an obsession would shell those walnuts. I thought at the time we always have enough groceries why does he continually shell those walnuts? We could buy them shelled. Now my son asks me the same question. As the seasons move he would go to other fruits and do the same thing. Now I anticipate the seasons and know that in a few weeks when December begins the persimmons will be ripe and I will scoop than in containers to freeze as well. 

Another ploy he would have is after bringing in so much fruit he would ask my mother to start preserving. I can recall as if it was today seeing him bring in the buckets of boysenberries that he myself and my brother picked from Johnny Steinerts ranch on Rainbow road. Then out would come the jars and the huge kettle and the boysenberry jam factory on greenwood would begin. Then we would go to Knotts Berry Farm and go to the dining room where they served chicken dinners with boysenberry jam. We would taste and determine if our jam met their standards. 

My dad liked to say I planted one of each tree fruit. You can be the judge of that. There are eight avocado trees, eight Washington navel orange trees. Other trees include a pink grapefruit, regular grapefruit, lemon, tangerine, persimmon, two pomegranate trees, two plum varieties, three almond trees, a pear tree, two peach varieties. I filled in the orchard with three apple trees, Granny Smith, Fuji and Golden Delicious. Then I added a Kumquat, White flesh peach, a plum apricot cross called a Jim Dandy, two cherry trees and a Bartlett pear tree. So again I emulated my dad and insure myself busy work and great eating as I manage these crops and eat and give away and freeze and cook the bountiful harvest.

In the movie the "Wizard of Oz" Dorothy talks about somewhere over the rainbow. I have found that somewhere over the rainbow for myself it is the ranch. This weekend I took at the fruit picker which is an ingenious tool that has a long pole with a basket with Bent forks at the end of the basket. Reaching into the interior of an avocado tree and picking out those black avocado beauties made me feel that I was at the end of the rainbow. No place on earth at that moment compared with the silence and the beauty of the moment. Each tree stood silently some such as the orange trees with their winter harvest or oranges ready for eating and others sleeping out the winter waiting for their turn. "I think I shall never see anything as beautiful as a tree" as the poem goes is so true for me. 

After my mother died, the ranch needed life. I bought a miniature horse ,a stud named Flash. Then 
I had life but he walked with his head hung low like a plow horse. He was a pedigree horse but
nevertheless I felt the money I spent was wasted. Gradually he at the grass but was not able to
keep up with the grass that grows so incessantly on the farm.

Then I bought Sugar, a mare. I put her in the fenced area and had Flash outside of the fenced 
area. Suddenly he started prancing. It liked Mutual of Omaha’s wild kingdom. He started strutting,
prancing with head up high and it looked like his mane literally started standing on hand. In
fact he paced against the fence so fast and so furious that he worked up a tremendous sweat.
Then he got excited . The first time that I recall seeing him excited.. I opened up the gates 
and before I could got to five he had mounted her! He did his deed and from that point on he was 
a different horse! He became kind and affectionate to Sugar. Wherever she chose to graze he would
graze along side of her. Intercourse continue between these newlyweds and as I watched in 
amazement I saw the next time the whole process. Flash would mount her from the back and then 
bite gently on her back so she wouldn’t walk away which is apparently the trick mares pass on to
each other from generation to generation.

Now picture this Kodak moment. There the stud is mounted on the mare. He has her held in check 
then as he bangs her twice I watch her head turn slowly back with a gentle look that seems to 
say "thanks stud I needed that!" As an observer I was jealous of the moment. This was the stuff of 
life. Who would not give up his wealth and station in life for that one moment that Flash and 
that mare had!

When I miss my parents which is 24/7 going to the ranch helps. I see the places where I grew up 
and see the handiwork of my parents. That helps the situation. They say that in a death the two 
choices are: "move on with your life or the opposite of cling to the past." That is incorrect. 
The answer is a reconciling. This to me means you reconcile your life as it is lived presently 
with the real life event of your parents passing. This reconciliation takes years and may never 
be fully completed in ones life time. Webster’s collegiate dictionary tenth edition defines 
reconcile as "to restore to friendship or harmony". That seems to be the task for me restoring to
friendship and harmony the event of lost parents with the daily events of my life.

In the kitchen of the ranch there is a key chain that has the appearance of being solid gold and 
has the Rolls Royce emblem on it. That is all that is left of the gold Rolls Royce my dad had. 
I remember when we bought it and the circumstances that surrounded that moment. My dad grew up 
very poor. His dad was first generation Armenian and came to this country penniless and on 
Greenwood near north had an acre or two of strawberries. The only car my dad had was a Ford 
Model T. That car according to him was always breaking down. It was only sold in black. That is 
a color my dad hated. If my mom ever tried on a black dress he would object because he said that
was a funeral color. She never had a black dress because of that.

As we walked on the showroom of Rolls Royce on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. A salesman came 
up to help. My dad said "I am here to buy a new Rolls Royce." The sales inquired what color are
you interested in? My dad said, " I want a color that when I drive the car another car is coming 
the other way towards me will never be the same color.The salesman with great anticipation prepared his comeback revelation. Sir, that gold Rolls Royce you see on the show room floor was painted with a color that will never be painted on another car. I will get the paint for you." He brought the can and the can was a half pint one with a number on the top. You get this can of paint because without it you can never match that
color.

That car was sold as far as my dad was concerned. Here his boyhood dream had been fulfilled. Wow! 
My dad used to buying new cars since in my lifetime for every year of my life we had a new Cadillac of that year. My dad always bought from the main manager of the company. In fact, in order to get the best possible price he would place his order for a new Cadillac and pick up the Cadillac in Detroit on the way back from dried fruit convention in New York. My dad and his brother Carl would each pick up a Cadillac at the Detroit factory and drive them back home to Sanger. My dad was not a fast driver. He enjoyed a leisurely drive. On this scenic picturesque trip on route 66 my uncle Carl would get bags of peanuts and head home at breakneck speeds nearly non stop. My dad was in no hurry to get back to the packing house and all the physical labor that plant entailed. I can remember his calls home. He would call home person to person collect and ask for Dick. We would answer as the operator asked if Dick  was there. We could hear 
dad make an excuse to say something so we would hear his voice such as "Is Dick there operator?". 
Strange how we are. My dad would spend the money on a new Cadillac but not spend the dollars 
needed to make a phone call!. As a child this seemed a strange paradox.

Now that you have this background of my dad’s buying habits for cars we can continue with the 
negotiations for the Rolls Royce. The main sales manager said "Mr. Tusan how will you be paying 
for this car?" This time the revelation was for my dad who was anticipating the question so he 
could provide his answer. He said I’ll be paying cash. With that he showed him his stock
portfolio to establish his net worth.

My mother and father were a wonderful team. My mother knew my dad’s hearts desire for a Rolls 
Royce. She would dress up each morning and they would go to the Del Webb building where Merrill 
Lynch was with the mission of earning enough money to buy a Rolls Royce. They played Transamerica 
Corp. and Chrysler and bought and sold those two stocks to win the money for the Rolls. I am 
certain that my dad got the money for the car because he had the support of my mom every day 
spiritually, mentally and physically helping him earn the money by trading the stocks.

The stock market was a part of my growing up years. I remember my dad coming home for lunch 
from the packing house which was next door to our house. The first thing he would do would be to
turn on the radio. It was a Philco radio as I recall and had a long sweeping dial that turned 
in a half circle. He had tabs all along the frequency to mark the various stations that reported
the stock market. They would report the Dow average as well as the most active stocks. Just 
behind the radio there is a built in desk. On that desk there were always note paper with stock 
symbols and quotes on them. Then every morning another Wall Street journal would arrive in the 
mail. 

Is it any wonder that I play the stock market? It is part of who I am. I want to repeat my dad’s
acumen in the market. I am looking for that cash cow. Presently I am trading Handspring. I 
have developed a trading system on my own. The method continues to show a continual profit as 
long as I do not deviate from the plan. The plan for Handspring which moves between 60 and 95 
is to divide the total money I have to invest by five and dollar cost average the buying as it 
goes down. Each dollar cost average price is a minimum of five points from the previous filled
price. Every buy order filled then has a sell order placed at five points above the buy price. 
In this way I am hedging loses by dollar cost averaging down and then dollar cost averaging up.

My philosophies

I believe that everyday once must decide the six most important things that must be done that 
day. Then at night one crosses off what one has completed. As I put my wallet, Palm Pilot, car 
keys, eye glasses away and the notes in my pocket I also leave my problems in that drawer to 
pick up the next day. The theory I believe in is sufficient unto the day is the work thereof. 
In this manner I can get a good nights sleep.


Every day is a gift. It is not to be wasted. Everything that you do must in some way help you 
accomplish your goals. This may seem that I am too goal oriented. But one must understand my 
basic goals which I will illustrate now.

Other chapters to be written in my memoirs  include: William Saroyan and how he came in and                  out of my life. The Santa Clause in Sanger and what he taught me. What you must do to be a                    good father and a good husband. How to meet anyone who want to meet.  Sales techniques that                    I employed such as the Puppy Dog Close and the countless other methods.    How out of 150          salesmen nationwide in consecutive years I was number 5, number three and then number one.                    An explanation of what it took to make that accomplishment a reality. How to learn from any           misfortune that befalls you. The importance of friendship and what it takes to cultivate it and how               this is a continual process. How failure  is the best teacher of all.