CURRENT MISSION

live laugh love dream ...

PHILOSOPHY

~may you be as a cup that runneth over~

"If you want to build a ship, do not herd people together to collect wood and do not assign them tasks and work; rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea" - Antoine de Saint Exupéry

The morning glory that blooms for an hour
Differs not at heart
From the giant pine that lives for a thousand years.
-zen proverb...

Open your hands if you want to be held.
Sit down in this circle...
Flow down and down in ever widening rings of being.
~Rumi~

"When we educate people, if we use the word seriously, we do not stuff something new into their minds; rather, we lead this something out of them; we bring it forth from the subconscious into their awareness. They were the possessors of the knowledge all along. "
-from The Road Less Traveled

Interests

cooking, the beach, walking in the woods, playing in the ocean, making new friends, drinking good wine... puppies, polar bears, stopping global warming, sustainability, thinking about designing eco-friendly cities (that's actually not-necessarily- oxymoronic you know), storytelling & local mythology (because i think that cultural integrity is something that can not be valued highly enough!) etc, etc, etc.

• writing
• literature
• poetry
• cooking
• wine
• walking
• partying
• drinking
• knitting
• surfing
• beaches
• lakes
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Martin Prechtel's books about life in Guatemala, especially the Toe Bone & The Tooth, right now lots of history/social or cultural anthropology, books that bring magic into my life! Tom Robbins, Umberto Eco... Manda Scott's "Boudica" series ...Graham Hancock: the fingerprints of the gods; zorba the greek, robert moss, faulkner, fitzgerald, mythology and creation stories.... all kinds of stuff...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Rainbows, Glowing Moons, Light on Water, Sunsets into the Sea, Laughing, Wise-Eyed Children, Mountains, Lakes, Rivers, Skinny Dipping in the North Sea in October--wooo!

full moons glowing over the pacific as i soak in liquid hot sulfur hot springs, big sur coast

Teach, Learn, Share

growing tomatoes. cooking (anything)! ecovillage designing. starting a fire. mythology, creation stories & the stars, moon and planets. batik & silkpainting. poetry & literature. geographies of inequality. writing essays. and poems. knitting (ok, i kind of suck at knitting). winetasting. having parties. laughing (but not telling jokes). metaphysical properties of stones. talking about surfing, but never doing it. pitching a tent in the dark. the celtic wheel of the year. and more...

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, United States