I have always had a deep curiosity and interest in people and Big Picture thinking about the world. We live in a most amazing period in human history. I believe that things are getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster, simultaneously. What a blessing to live at this time!

I was born and raised in the Deep South and I always will be a Southern boy at heart. I spent my high school and college years in Iowa during which time I traveled and lived abroad for 4 to 6 months on four different occasions in Merida, Yucatan, Wales in Great Britain, backpacking through Chile Y Argentina, and teaching English in Merida Yucatan a second time there. I have spent the last twenty years living in western North Carolina as a service professional in the fields of Wellness and Personal Transformation.

I learned much about Sustainable Living as an active member living at Earthaven for seven years ~ an Intentional Community based on the practice of Permaculture - where we wer