I have seen the shadows of raindrops and marveled. I have slept on Bible Point in the open air and climbed to the top of Emerald Mountain. I came within a foot of a hummingbird on the side of Eagle Cliff above Moraine Valley. I saw a dried-out lizard on the street in St Bernard Parish, Louisianna in the spring after Katrina. I have seen people reconcile differences and I give the best hugs and back rubs. I have seen my little brothers grow from baby-size to teenager-size.

I can teach you [about]: guitar, music theory/how to write a song, Chinese tea ceremony, listening skills, crafts, needlework, geography & map reading, budgeting, simple paper folding (i.e. how to make an origami crane), high school algebra, high school chemestry, knitting, sewing, reading, english, editing, linguistics, driving/Illinois rules of the road, how to write a paper, how to make a really good cake, cooking, baking, cleaning, fencing, decor, flower arrangment, philosophy (esp. of science), logic, religions (esp. Judiasm & Christianity), "the bible," psychology, animals (esp. cockatiels, rabbits, sheep, pikas, chickens, dogs, cats, and sharks), high altitude sickness, hiking, how to choose a sleeping bag, and more! I would like to learn [about]: anything you are passionate about, how to feel feelings in a deeper and more healthy way, how to communicate better, how to be more organized, how to make creme broule, how to fold more complicated origami, how to grow a bonsai, how to read and interperate a barometer, how to accept more kinds of people in a natural-feeling way, how to be less (and more) socially akward, how to give my guitar songs more "oomph," more strumming patterns on the guitar...I am a generally curious person and easily amused.

music, languages, animals, children, cultures