CURRENT MISSION

Summiting

ABOUT ME

Probably that I move quickly, which is true most of the time, and that if I'm on my feet I'm going somewhere or dancing. If I'm not on my feet, I'm on a fast bike, or I'm in between dance moves, or I'm sitting down, thinking. I do a lot of thinking, mostly trying to resolve contradictions, and trying to figure out what's going on here. My big question is still: what is this? It's not a question that I worry about as much as revel in, and as I get older I'm less convinced that I'm really looking for an answer.

Interests

These are my values: (1) Beauty, (2) Excellence, (3) Speed, (4) Strength. This is what grabs my attention and makes my life engaging. I find these values expressed particularly in dance -- especially ballet and modern -- in bicycling quickly, in well-argued propositions, well-calculated political moves, and sprinting.

I spend much of my time thinking, reading, writing, teaching. I'm a graduate student. When I'm not doing these things, I'm usually in between them, or I'm drinking a beer with a friend, or I'm enjoying a strange film I've never heard of, or eating in a restaurant whose name I can't pronounce.

• writing
• beauty
• dancing
• ballet dancing
• beer
• sprinting
• drinking
• boating
• reading
• cycling
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking around in the Alps. Unbelievably beautiful up there, and not in the sense that this is a nature external to us, but that people live there, in this reality.

Biking to Portland from SF over nine days through cold rain, pushing a Century through the last day, to arrive in the dark at a house of friends I hadn't seen for years, who took me in without hesitation.

The fisherman who let me sleep in his boat on Lake Titicaca after only knowing me for a couple hours.

Teach, Learn, Share

Bike maintenance, bread making

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Botswana, Ecuador, France, Germany, Kenya, Namibia, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Switzerland, Tanzania, Uruguay, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, Germany, South Africa, United States

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