CURRENT MISSION

I wish to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I can not learn what it has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not lived. (Thoreau)

ABOUT ME

"Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or street, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines because it breathes the same breath over again; their shadows, morning and evening, reach farther than their daily steps. We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character." (Thoreau)

PHILOSOPHY

"We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so." (Pascal)

Interests

baseball, beer, football, hockey, hospitality, music, poetry, psychology, quotes, reading, simplicity, soccer, tattoos, theology, whiskey

• poetry
• tattoos
• beer
• reading
• music
• baseball
• soccer
• hockey
• divinity
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: most John Cusack films (especially High Fidelity & Say Anything); anything by Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Hitchcock, or Clint Eastwood; The Machinist; Good Will Hunting; Unbreakable; Boondock Saints.

Music: just about everything, but lately I've been really into indie-folk (Old Man Luedecke, William Elliot Whitmore, Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes/Monsters of Folk, Ken Reaume, Murder By Death, et cetera).

Books: anything by C S Lewis; the classics (A Tale of Two Cities, Crime & Punishment, The Great Gatsby); anything dealing with theology; Kurt Vonnegut; Douglas Coupland; Shakespeare; J D Salinger.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada

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