mind expansion (including but not limited to): traveling, tipis, gardening, hiking, permaculture, medicine wheels, backpacking, Diggers, moutaineering, phases of the moon, caving, canoe racing, being a coniseur of hamburgers, falafel, blue food, color theory, art, photography, painting, psychedelic posters, being like water, political decentralism, permaculture, asian philosophy, Taoism, Buddhism, Jainism, absurdism, primitivism, surrealism, cubism, a bunch of other philosophical and artistic "isms", sustainable architecture, passive solar design, strawbale construction, earthships, renewable energy, wind farms, plays on words, writing
Music
I was once accused of listening only to "psychedelic circus music"- which I take as a compliment, but don't really understand. I also listen to:
Frank Zappa, Ween, Bonzo Dog Band, Manu Chao, Rutles, Beatles, Love Button, Balthazar, Peter Tosh, Arlo Guthrie, Flaming Lips, Moby Grape, Pink Floyd, Donki Man, Bob Marley, Red Dirt Rangers, Grateful Dead, Yonder Mtn. String Band, Incredible Srting Band, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Captain Beefheart, Dead Milkmen, Willie Nelson, String Cheese Incident, The Doors, The Animals, Sopwith Camel, Lone Star, Quicksilver Messenger Service, George Clinton, George Lewis, Woody Guthrie, The Association, Robert Hunter, Stevie Wonder, Wookiefoot, Jefferson Airplane, Love, Dr. Hook, Blueground Undergrass, Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, Mothers of Invention, Electric Prunes, The Seeds, The Band, The Banned, Bob Dylan, Ekoostic Hookah, Starland Vocal Band, Billy Bragg, Queen, New Vaudeville Band, Flying Borrito Bros., Hot Tuna, Wilco etc....
Books
Finite and Infinite Games (James P. Carse), Ringolevio (Emmett Grogan), Still Life With Woodpecker (Tom Robblns), Chuang-Tzu, I Ching, Zen Speaks(Tsai Chih Chung), Crazy Clouds: Zen Radicals Rebels and Reformers (Pearl Besserman and Manfred Steger), Crazy Wisdom (Wes Nisker), Cosmic Banditos (A.C. Weisbecker), Man Woman Nature (Allan Watts), etc....
Heroes
Emmett Grogan, Rick Griffin, Marcel Duchamp, Chuang-tzu, Salvador Dali, Woody Guthrie
About me: I try to live a simple life, in tune with nature and living according to instinct. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. I’ve spent time in the mountains, spent time on the Hill (in Boulder, CO), lived on the prairie, lived in the jungles of Belize, hiked in the desert, camped in snowstorms, worked outside through Oklahoma summers, danced in the Colorado rain, built hiking trails under the Montana big sky, built rock staircases to the sky in Maine, crossed oceans, hugged trees, grown my own vegetables, grown my own beard, built a high tolerance to everything except hatred, lived in a tipi, owned businesses, laughed with others, laughed at myself, laughed for no particular reason, acquired a couple of college degrees, written letters, written run-on sentences, written papers, flown home, driven home, biked home, walked home, hitch-hiked home, lost my attachment to the place I used to think was home, painted masterpieces, painted walls, contemplated the meaning of life, chanted with Nichiren Buddhists, stayed in a Catholic monastery, meditated with Taoists, taught a photography class, taught myself how to bake from scratch, worked as a Jesus impersonator, raised a little Hell, gone to Hell (Michigan), experienced Heaven on Earth… And have tried to make life my art through it all. Life is what you make of it. Currently having the next adventure in the Grand Canyon.
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Thanks to NONzine and all the good folks that sent comments about my art in their Christmas issue- you're all the grooviest! Especially the slaves to NONzine- keep up the good work!
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Who I'd like to meet: Someone who can tell me how to fix this so you don't have to hit "refresh" on your browser to see these slide shows:
Kaleidoscope Mandala Series:
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Digital Primitivist Style Landscapes and Skyscapes:
just wanted you to know i've been thinking of you lately! hope everything is going well for you....i seriously need a trip to belize! let me know when you're going to be there and i very well may try to make it happen....
Hey you! How long you going to be in the Grand Canyon? As far as my plans go for now, I'm moving to Prescott the beginning of Nov. Maybe we will meet again.....
StoneWater is glad to have you as a new friend, I wanted to stop in and leave you a message, stop by and leave us a comment and sign up for our mailing list below to help us keep you better informed, thanks Ren
heyhey!! how goes it in your neck of the woods? were you in texas last i knew? so many things are changing and if you know me, you know i love change! just wanted to drop a line to see how you are...if you ever get on to see this and say hi! hit me back when you get a chance!
