Jonny
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Traditional Herbal Medicine |
| Location | Portland, OR |
| Introduction | Born and grew up in New York City, spending summers in northern Vermont. a friend once introduced me as "a country boy who happened to be born in the city"--not sure what it means, but i like to think it's true. College at the bio-dome Swarthmore ('06), where I ended up studying religion after losing my passion for theoretical physics somewhere in a thicket of numbers. I spent most of my time in the kitchen, anyway, cooking for friends and brewing beer. I Spent a semester in Darjeeling District, India, and since then have gone increasingly off the deep end into pursuits centering around traditional herbal medicine. In July '09 I finished up my Fulbright year in Kathmandu, Nepal, where I was studying contemporary Ayurvedic practice and working on the strange and wonderful Newari language. After an extended period of "time off," I began the Classical Chinese Medicine program at NCNM in Portland, OR. Since then I've continued delving into the depths of East and South Asian medical traditions, pursuing the I Ching's mandate to "bring nourishment with ancient wisdom" (Hexagram 57). |
| Interests | food and cooking, religion, gardening, holistic healthcare and herbalism, the world, languages and words, chess, mountains, cats, owls and other funny little creatures, meditation, I Ching |
| Favorite Movies | Respiro, Gypsies are Found Near Heaven, Withnail & I, The Big Lebowski, Edge of Darkness, How to Irritate People, Jean de Florette |
| Favorite Music | Bonny 'Prince' Billy, Lucinda Williams, older Son Volt, Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, Joe Henderson, Tom Waits, Eric Dolphy, late Beethoven piano sonatas, Bach, Nepali folk music, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Balinese Gamelan |
| Favorite Books | (oh lordy, let's do authors) James Joyce, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K LeGuin, Michael Gruber, Wendell Berry, Toni Morrison, Faulkner, Steinbeck, James Merrill, Tolkien, Peter Matthiessen, Basho . . . |
What reason do you have to believe the earth is flat?
proof by reductio ad absurdum: if it were round, it would roll off the turtle's back