CURRENT MISSION I want to be free. Write and sing my songs. See and appreciate as much of the world as I can, while living on it lightly, ethically, responsibly and sustainably. Here’s a vid of me playing a tune at a bar: https://youtu.be/AxX0goNKVVE ABOUT ME Hi! I’m Craig! Originally from rural Maryland, I left home young and within a few years moved through most of the US, Canada, Mexico and Guatemala working on various farms, parks and humanitarian projects. By 2008, I became a human rights worker in the Middle East, working mostly in Iraq. Rather shaken by the experience, I came back to the US and have since lived in DC, California, the Midwest and New York City. I’ve been working in construction and as a maintenance man at a park/nature preserve on Long Island for the past couple years. But yet again, due to some significant shifts in my personal life, I feel it is time for a change and I am getting back on the road. Two things that I’ve been consistently interested in over the years are the arts of song-writing and permaculture (or regenerative agriculture). So I plan to be doing a lot of wwoofing, working on farms and homesteads or intentional communities, following the warm weather, learning and sharing skills, playing music, sitting in the sunshine and marveling at being alive every chance I get. I really love people and making new friends. PHILOSOPHY I value authenticity, mutualism, reciprocity, sustainability. Love your neighbor as yourself. I want to be the kind of person who shows up and does what they say they will do. But I also want to allow others and myself to change their minds and grow. I hold my opinions lightly while trying to stand up for what’s right. I do Not identity solely with my beliefs, so I can survive a change of heart. I’m striving to find balance between love and freedom, commitment and the Buddhist notion of healthy detachment.