My sister Nan was sharing office space with Atman Travel (if I am remembering my L.A. mapping correctly, it was located on Westwood & Olympic) in West L.A. back in 1976/77. I had just that day moved from San Diego to work with Nan in her business which she also shared space with Ingrid in her separate business.

I believe I was there all of 1 ½ hours when Michael, Randy and John-Roger came in to pick up airline tickets. I was unaware of any of this taking place except that Nan, Ingrid, Rachael (who worked for Atman at the time), Adam (who worked for Ingrid and was later my roommate, dearest friend and musical partner on many projects) had all but disappeared to where I did not know. I was busy on a phone call in Nan’s office. In the middle of that telephone call, as I was speaking on the phone and taking notes, Nan poked her head in the office and whispered “I want you to meet a friend of mine – this is John-Roger!”

Well, I was doubly busy but seeing Nan’s face all aglow – I paused what I was doing and cocked the headset on my shoulder and put my hand out to shake J-R’s and said “Hey John, how’s it going?” J-R’s eyebrows were pointed up in that laughing manner without breaking out in guffaws right at me. He told Nan a couple of beautiful things about me right then before leaving.

My parents had given me a stern warning upon leaving home: “Don’t go getting involved in that John-Roger business along with your sister Nan OR start hanging around with your brother Danny in those gay clubs up there and dancing ’til dawn!” After meeting J-R that first day in L.A., I immediately began attending home seminars with Mishea which allowed me the opportunity to attend J-R’s Wed./Th. night seminars each week at Prana with Nan & friends – never missed a week. ALONG with dancing ‘til dawn with my brother Danny (as long as we could keep up!), God bless his beautiful, loving soul. He loved J-R too.