Bio

There was a patch of woods. It was beautiful, and wandering dreamily through it helped me kick tobacco, circa 1970. It was the place where friends and I dropped acid, took off our clothes, theorized, planned, dreamed. Gooseneck Hollow was supposed to be a community from which self reliance and hedonic poverty would radiate and shalt the death machine. It couldn't last. Everything I have done since has happened in relationship to that place. When I think of it and my subsequent studies, accomplishments, joys, sorrows, compromises, I think "Right the first time."

Skills and talents

Embryo Permaculturist, drawer of the figure, drawer and painter of stories, picker and sometime grinner, four-ball juggler, yogi, weightlifter, occupier of the frontier between positivism and new age (theoretician of the sacred), former mathphobe, possessor of inactive CDL (expired DOT card), former interstate bus dispatcher, former DOE WX energy auditor, no-measure bread baker, co-author of three unpublished novels.

Interests

art, conditioning my nervous system, drawing, guitar, Permaculture, physical fitness, Yoga

What I'm Reading

Travis McGee and V. I. Warshawski series, Harper's, Mother Earth News, Ode, Yoga Journal, Where Angels Fear, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, The Nudist Idea

What I'm Listening To

Greg Klyma, Jonathan Richman, Patty Larkin, New York Dolls, Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Movies I've Seen Recently

I'm Not There, Gran Torino, Cat Ballou

Websites I'm Into

The Building Blocks of Wholeness, Permaculture Research Institute: Cold Climate, The Bare Pit

Education

High school

WIU Campus School

College

Western Illinois University

Additional study

Aborted attempt at a Master of Architecture at University of Minnesota, various tech-college courses in energy conservation, Permaculture Design certification