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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
My mission has always been for beauty, for love. Also to See and Hear and Breathe and Feel and Think and Forget and Grow and Shrink and Forgive and Evolve and Learn and Be Forgotten and Refine and Create and Destroy and to Take and to Give. to SPIRAL
ABOUT ME
Hey so I am an explorer I feel at home when I'm travelling. I'm a simple person, always happy, very easy to please, there is so much to see and do and never judge so I try to find interest in all things. I make a point to enjoy everything, really... no point in limiting oneself. All food, all music, all art, all ideas, all terrains, all weather, all kinds of people, all experiences---good, strange and bad even because I will still feel alive and that is a good feeling!
PHILOSOPHY
The closer you get to wisdom is the closer you get to paradox.
Interests
I am most interested in Nature, for sure. Any sort of wise adventuring. Well I guess I have a reckless side too. I'm very passionate about running, trail running in particular. Mountain biking, hiking, camping, swimming, bouldering, parkour, drawing, writing, painting, making music, learning new things, experimenting, mountains, eating and cooking quality healthy food, gardening, horses, crafts and trades, survival techniques, akasha, introspection, getting lost in the moment, imagining the distant past. It's important to me to be always learning, always reading, always doing. I love good intelligent conversation, or wild absolution in the now.
- horses
- arts
- writing
- beauty
- dining
- cooking
- running
- crafts
- gardening
- reading
- traveling
- painting
- drawing
- bouldering
- survival
- music
- cycling
- hiking
- camping
- trail running
- rock climbing
- swimming
- mountains
Music, Movies, and Books
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Louis L'Amour, Mikhail Bulgakov, Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Crichton, Robert E. Howard, Jack London, Jack Kerouac, Jon Krakauer, Thich Nhat Hanh, Albert Camus, Roert C. O'Brien, Evelyn Underhill, Dr. Robert O. Young, Christopher Mc.Doughall, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rolf Potts, and so on and on and on....
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Every moment leaves me awestruck.
Teach, Learn, Share
Believe in the strength and adaptability of your body. Believe in your amazing genes. Think strong and you'll be strong. You know how to heal yourself. You control your body and your will is to be determined...it's the culmination of every challenge you've overcome or failed. Face your demons, go into your darkness and revel in it, it's a part of you after all, and you are made of light, energy as all things are, This, we learn from nature. When you look your darkness in the eye study it with a completely open mind, be honest with yourself. Weep, shake, yell, just don't look away. You cannot fight your darkness, you can't fight yourself. To defeat its power is to know it, all of it, Take what's useful to be reinvented and leave the rest. Just don't fear this part of you or your ego will likely deceive you, will pervert it, and this will cause you to do evil things. Pride is a perfect example. The ego has evolved out of society, to serve society. But where does society live? Don't they fear the woods, the wild? Are they close to our planet?
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Countries I’ve Visited
Canada, Germany, Iraq, Kuwait, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
United States