Tangential pieces and parts of work experiences of a psychologist-educator-researcher are put together in this collection to let the reader into the real world of education and experimental projects. The book is a loosely structured compilation of information taken from a personal journal, reports, and tape-recorded interviews of the people dealt with--children, mothers, criminals, teachers, camp counselors, juvenile delinquents, and colleagues. Suggestions for the "would-be community mental health architect" are implicit throughout the book, and are brought to the surface and clarified in a chapter on "Ruminations and Obsessions." (SH)