CURRENT MISSION

I would like to be a better person and live a more fulfilling life. And I would like to help shepherd a better world and a better quality of life for those around me. ——In many ways I'm doing great...and in many others I'm not yet hitting the mark...and there is always hope...and trying...

ABOUT ME

Well, its tough to describe myself inside a little white box with blue edges and a couple hash marks on the bottom right. Even if there were no blue edges or hash marks I would probably still have a tough time. But here we go...

I try to live out my life as best I know how. I try to be kind. I seek something bigger. I seek good tasting food. I seek any food at all; I love leftovers. I like to cook (if there is no pressure). I like to write. I have dedicated my current era of life to it. I like to find adventure. I like nature. I like trying to build a better society. I try to live in the moment. I try to stay grounded. I want to connect to people. Build relationships. In many things I fail. I like music. I like movies. I like to read. I wish I was some things that I'm not, and I'm grateful for most of the things I am. I could be more grateful. I could be more present. I could be more grounded. Mostly, I'm happy to be who I am, doing what I'm doing.

PHILOSOPHY

Just trying to do my best. And not waste time. The little bit that I have. Which may seem like a lot.

Interests

I am interested in many things. Too many to name and too many to specify just a few. But I would love for you to teach me about what interests you.

• dogs
• arts
• dining
• cooking
• running
• movies
• music
• boxing
• track and field
• teaching
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: All kinds. Top few: Old Crow Medicine Show, Gillian Welch, José Gonzalez, the Beatles, Amadou & Mariam, The Be Good Tanyas, The Wood Brothers, and The Bare Necessities from the Jungle Book.

Books: Many Lives, Many Masters, SpiritWalker, The Fifth Sacred Thing, The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter, Undaunted Courage, The Lord of the Rings, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Movies: Avatar, Where the Wild Things Are, Ratatouille

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Yesterday (one day a while ago when I rewrote this box) I was on the river beach on an Island Jungle in Indonesia and a little girl kept running around me in circles, stopping to pick up a shell, giving it to me, and to continue running. Then she gave me a hard ball of sand. Her friends came and gave me a curious and disconcerting eye. She was about ten and they were younger. She was charismatic and led that pack. They were growing up in a world that I could never understand. What did I mean to them? Who was I? Who were they to me?

Teach, Learn, Share

"You are something the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing." - Alan Watts

Twenty years ago, I asked a friend if he felt, as I did, a kind of chronic longing, a longing I wanted to identify. ‘Of course,’ he answered. We were having lunch by the pond at 59th Street, watching the ducks. The sun was out, the grass was thick and green, the ducks paddled around in the not very blue pond. I was between lives. ‘What is it?’ I asked. ‘What is it we are longing for?’ He thought a minute and said, ‘There isn’t any it. There is just the longing for it.’ Years later and a little wiser, I know what the longing was for: Here is where I belong.
-Abigail Thomas 'A Three Dog Life'-

The greatest prayer is patience.
Buddha

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein-

Is it boring you or are you boring it?
-B. Wildeman-
(Juniper Sparks' High School Art Teacher)

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot-

The real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeing
new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust-

Even if you're on the right track youll get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rodgers-

While they were saying among themselves that it can not be done, it was done. - Helen Keller

"Éste es El Tiempo de la Segadora, the Time of the Reaper, she who is the end inherent in the beginning, scythe to the grain. The Crone, Goddess of Harvest. In this her season we celebrate the ancient feast of the Celtic sun god Lugh, his wake as he ages and descends into autumn. It is a time of sweet corn, ripening tomatoes, the bean drying on the vine. The harvest begins. We reap what we have sown."
Madrone sat up straighter, listening attentively. She always enjoyed hearing Maya work a crowd.
"The Crone, the Reaper, is not an easy Goddess to love. She's not the nurturing Mother. She's not the Maiden, light and free, not pretty, not shiny like the full or crescent moon. She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence."
-Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing, 17

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Peru, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, United States

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