CURRENT MISSION

Get a better sense of the fun little differences between the different regions in the States

ABOUT ME

Where globe trotting and living out of backpacks and the kindness of surfers was once my mission I know find myself on a new adventure - a more stationary, stable, and subtle mission to find out what it means to be 20 something in the south.

Interests

bossa nova, mass spectrometry, world history, finding things out, getting in a jam, jam, jamming, running, rowing, reddit, feeding an aggressive podcast addiction, and tinkering.

• animals
• books
• coffee
• running
• rowing
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

the pleasure of finding things out
anything E.E. Cummings
The way of the peaceful warrior
the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
the perks of being a wallflower
Enders Game
1984

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A construction worker gave me a bottle of cheap brandy at the top of Mt. Fuji.

Teach, Learn, Share

For some reason my brain registers quotes, quips, and bumper sticker sayings very well. Add it all up and I've either got a coffee table book or a way of life, i'm not sure. Here are a few.

Be kinder than is necessary for everyone is fighting some kind of battle.

The religious right is neither.

"Because it is there" - Sir Edmund Hilary when asked why he wanted to climb everest.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul. - Walt Whitman

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout - Dad

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Croatia, Egypt, Japan, Myanmar, Spain, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States