CURRENT MISSION

To see the world, without traveling around it.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe there's a loving God, who sent his only son to die for us, that our sins might be forgiven, and that by faith and relationship with him, rather than being 'good enough', we can not only be saved, but have eternal life.

I believe love and intent are almost invariably more important than power and achievement, and that too many people talk about money too much. I also think the world would be a better place if there were more ceilidhs and barn-dances, and with compulsory attendance, and that we should all try to get along, and that fair trade is something of vital importance, and ought to be the standard -- but these things, while terribly important, are less central to the whole of life.

Interests

I play the accordion, piano, recorder, jaw-harp, hammond organ and keyboard (among other things).

I watch a large among of classic Doctor Who, and other works of magnificent televisual antiquity.

I write, perform in, record and edit quite a bit of audio-drama.

I sew by compulsion, making nightmarish masks and prosthetic beards of dubious merit.

• performing arts
• traveling
• piano
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: They Might Be Giants, The Electric Light Orchestra, Gilbert & Sullivan, Pink Martini, The Divine Comedy, Alfred Schnittke

Movies: Ben-Hur, Das Boot, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Fiddler on the Roof, Heimat, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Falls

Books: Three Men in a Boat, Gulliver's Travels, the Bible, Out of the Silent Planet, Nicobobinus, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban