CURRENT MISSION

I want to live a simple life and genuinely benefit others along the Way.

PHILOSOPHY

1. “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain

3. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller

4. “I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” -Diane Ackerman

5. “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” -W. M. Lewis

6. “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” — Wilfred Peterson

7. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

9. “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life and in change there is power.” — Alan Cohen Quotes

10. “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life.” — John Amatt

Interests

• arts
• books
• design
• running
• reading
• traveling
• sailing

Teach, Learn, Share

I love creating! From idea, design, and implementation, I enjoy challenging my creative abilities and working with my hands. I find genuine purpose in teaching others how to create and provide for themselves and their surroundings.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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