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Overview

  • 3 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Spanish
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • High school English teacher
  • Currently in graduate studies at University of Waterloo
  • From Elmira
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To make life musical.

ABOUT ME

Love music: choral, classical, folk, World music. Have taught abroad and here at home. Love to travel and experience epiphanies through nature's sublime landscapes. Interested in decreasing disparity and increasing social justice. I enjoy traveling by foot, bicycle, train (any means other than getting in a vehicle).

PHILOSOPHY

...and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.(Isaiah 59:10)

Interests

Learning new things and listening to others' opinions, thoughts, and ideas. Guitar, drums, rugby, surfing, hiking, biking, cooking, yoga, listening to the wisdom of the elderly.

  • cooking
  • yoga
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • drums
  • world music
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • rugby

Music, Movies, and Books

The Big Lebowski; The Sea Inside; The Last Waltz; The Highest Tide; Rivers and Tides; Finding Forrester,

All genres of Music

Books: where do I begin...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Roasted marshmallows on the lava flowing from a volcano.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bulgaria, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, El Salvador, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Canada, Guatemala

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