lostinthewoods
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | jack of all, master of none |
| Location | Podunk, Minnesota, United States |
| Introduction | Recent photo, although much time has passed since I was a paperboy, student, wrangler, dishwasher, cook, college radio dj, Vietnam fire support liaison, horseshoer, blacksmith, soils engineer, gardener, permaculture enthusiast/consultant, log cabin builder, photo-journalist, writer, poet... carried medicines on horseback for UNICEF in the war torn mountains of Nicaragua in the 80s, have lived within a state forest since 1984 in an earth sheltered house built from local materials...many gleaned from this land, with a hand pump and outhouse until December of 2007, when we built an indoor 'biffy'. Electricity from the sun, fuel wood from the land. Married to a woman since 1989 who is a testament to the fact that there is beauty and grace in the world. Have traveled extensively throughout the Western USA and Mexico in VW campers...have also spent time in Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, New Zealand...A dream is to drive the coast from Vancouver to the tip of South America. Perhaps soon. |
| Interests | Gardening, wondering, sailing, surfing, swimming, the incredible lightness of being |
| Favorite Movies | Once, Song Catcher, Winter's Bone, Things We Lost in the Fire, Defiance, Mongol, Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day, Juno, The Brave One, Neverwas, The Wrestler, Across the Universe, Innocent Voices, Stardust, Half Nelson, Children of Men, Born into Brothels, Men With Guns, The Motorcycle Diaries, Garden State, Slaughterhouse Five, The Triplets of Belleville, Big Fish, Rabbit Proof Fence, Baracka, Frida |
| Favorite Music | Richard and Mimi Fariña, Greg Brown, Iris Dement, Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, David Crosby, Steven Stills, Neil Young, Graham Nash, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Ochs, Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, Neko Case, Calexico, Dick Dale, Ozomatli, Mana, Rap Cheb, Khaled & Abdel-Kader, Manu Chao, Violeta Parra, Billie Holiday, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Lou Reed, Nico, Richard Thompson, Danny Gatton, Alvin Lee, Roy Buchanan |
| Favorite Books | The Sorrow of War, The Years of Rice and Salt, The Left Hand of Darkness, Living the Good Life, Small is Beautiful, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The War After Armageddon, World Built by Hand, The Witch of Hebron, The Mars Trilogy, Last Chance to See |
You moved the pot before the coffee stopped brewing. Do you smell the mountains or the burro?
We actually had strong coffee and road kill burro at Aquascalientes de Aconchi. It was so bad that coyotes didn't want the leftovers. It tasted better a month later climbing tabletop wilderness, pulling green (with habañero sauce, I think) jerky out of coat pockets and pulling off the accumulated dust and lint.