CURRENT MISSION Thinking and writing (poetry, memory, place, connection, intimacy), and teaching people/challenging people to do the same. Cooking, intermittently. ABOUT ME Graduate student in poetry, writing teacher. I did a lot of roaming and exploring in my early 20s -- living and teaching in Thailand and traveling in Southeast Asia, living in New York working a variety of jobs, traveling throughout the northeast, figuring some things out about being an ethical human, thinker, and artist, learning how big the world was. Spending my late 20s more focused on my work as a poet, thinker, and teacher, trying to take that seriously and produce good work, while trying to figure out how to stay excited and engaged in a smaller town. I don't get outside as much as I should, but am looking for excuses to do so and spend some more time in these Colorado mountains. Looking for ways to be more engaged with the world of action, in conjunction with the world of thought. PHILOSOPHY Listen, ask questions, take the time to think, give yourself permission to be silent and still, move yourself toward action, be aware of what is around you.