CURRENT MISSION

To maintain and encourage the under-used Sense of Wonder

ABOUT ME

I live in Portland in a little house with my sweetheart and two other housemates. I have joint custody of a herd of goats but they live an hour away. We're into making things and doing things and going places. :) I'm just starting school to become a railroad conductor but hopefully we can find time to have folks stay over.

PHILOSOPHY

I seek knowledge and experience... what I'll do with it once I've got it, I do not know... but damn, isn't it fun?

Interests

Life, goats, sheep, food, dogs, animals, birds, plants, rewilding, living in the woods, music, gardening, archery, tanning, being goofy, etc.

• animals
• dogs
• birds
• dining
• cooking
• gardening
• music
• canoeing
• archery

Music, Movies, and Books

My most cherished book is Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

I also love The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan; Secrets of the Talking Jaguar by Martin Prechtel; There's a Hair in My Dirt! by Gary Larson; The Forest People by Colin M. Turnbull; The Living by Annie Dillard; Catch-22 by Joseph Heller; The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupére, and... more than that.. and the list of books I really want to read stretches from here to Betelgeuse.
I learned to read looking at Gary Larson comics.

Movies: I do enjoy movies, from Koyaanisqatsi and Orphee to 300 and Pirates of the Caribbean. Werner Herzog is fun and so is Cary Grant! I've seen a lot of movies, but people usually come up with some I need to see.
Also: Stop-motion animation. I love Will Vinton!!! I used to dream in claymation.

Music: anything from bluegrass and Mongolian folk music to dubstep and Alt-J.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can milk sheep... and build simple things, and paddle a canoe from just one side, and make fire, and cook some things, and harvest some wild food, and butcher meat, and I know some good songs.
I would love to learn how to do all those things better, and lots more!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guatemala, Panama, United States