about me

"I am the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to me"

—Rudyard Kipling

I grew up in Canada's prairie breadbasket, where I learned to love nature and appreciate beauty. I spent hours upon silent hours in the company of livestock, pets, and wild animals, finding the individuality and personality within each creature. I trekked across the native prairie and grain fields that my family's farm offered. I reclined under the dappled light of aspen groves, listening to birdsong and watching nature unfold and come alive. In the spring, I shed my heavy boots and darted along the shelterbelts over the half-melted snow, pink-orange in the slanting sunset light. I gloried in the feeling of being drowned by the sound of warm-edged spring zephyrs filling the entire prairie sky with that matchless sound of pure moving air, fully replacing the world's audio track. I can close my eyes and still feel that wind, as though the impossibly huge sky is supporting your weight just as much as the ground is. I listened for the rolling calls of migrating sandhill cranes, and watched colonies of Canada geese fill some high plane of the troposphere with their long angled lines, pushing north just as winter broke into life-giving spring. All this and more I absorbed and still hold.

At the turn of 2007, I moved to the west coast where I remain today. It was one of those changes that life brings, that you're not sure will be for the better or worse. But life is always good, if it is anything at all—so I guess the uncertainty is moot.

Like everybody else, my life is more complicated from the inside. I'm passionate about things that matter most to me, and unopinioned on things that don't. I'm a firm believer in subjectivity and the legitimacy of opposing tastes, and resent sweepingly objective claims. I work at a great job, but it isn't what you'd call a passion; I'm more of a dilettante, with a broad range of interests that don't package themselves neatly into a career.

Everyone is different things at different times. These days, I am learning a lot. I don't know where my life is headed, but I am busy full-time with enjoying the present.