Bryan

About me:

To those who know me, or want to:
I have spent time recently reorganizing my life's priorities and decided to update my profile to reflect the new order.

My life has been...nontraditional. I grew up as a 'military brat' traveling around the world. Those travels taught me the world is big. As a child, I imagined a world much nicer than the one in which we live. My innocence quickly vanished as my experiences in the world grew, yet my hope and optimism continued growing. My father taught me the value of a life dedicated to public service, although his influence ended with that. My life of service began as a Boy Scout and community volunteer. Later, as a young man I served my country as an Infantry Marine. During my time as a Marine, I served with some of the most honorable men and women I have ever known. My military experience provided many valuable lessons about honor, courage, self-discipline, loyalty, leadership and self-direction. I also had the opportunity to travel the world and see and do things most people only see on the discovery channel. After the Marine Corps and some college, I served my San Diego community in a nonprofit organization dedicated to servicing the needs of adults and children with developmental disabilities. It was there I developed a better understanding of roles which empathy, compassion, professionalism and patience all play in making the world a better place. I also feel the time I spent in non-profit and government service sector jobs, in addition to my musical experiences, exposed me to a degree of social consciousness I hadn't before known.

I loved my time working at a nonprofit organization but at the time I felt external pressure to earn more money. So...I traded my opportunity to make a big difference for the opportunity to make a big paycheck! VERY shortly afterward, I learned what I consider to be one of my most important life lessons...that there are MANY forms of wealth and MONETARY wealth IS NOT ALWAYS the most valuable. Armed with this powerful life lesson, I set out once again to build wealth, this time though, I knew what that meant. A part of my new quest required that I leave San Diego.

Upon arriving in Seattle, I served my new home State of Washington by working as a Community Organizer and Health Care Activist with Washington CAN - a grassroots organization dedicated to ensuring that high quality health care is a RIGHT of everyone in the United States! I have a world of respect for anyone who has every worked at the grass roots level! Much love to my activist homies! For the last year or so, I have been a contributing columnist for various Human Resources Blogs and print media outlets and am currently working on an article about "Working for Change" - my experience as an organizer in addition to Human resources Consulting work.

Throughout a life which seems to have been defined by change, there has been ONE constant...MUSIC! Whether as a child, sitting on the front porch, listening to George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Lynard Skynard, Deep Purple or some random Zydeco band, or as a house music DJ bangin' out dope ass underground house and techno music at some dark warehouse, MUSIC has been my Shepard and I have followed her along the pastures of this world and she has provided comfort during my descents into the valley's of darkness. It has been in those world's of experiences where music was present where I have felt most at home.

Music has also been the driving force for soooo much social change. Music has the ability to communicate where words often fail. It's power leaves me striving to further understand my role in the world and how my life's chord progressions fit into the symphony around me. What I've discovered so far, is that I want to make the world a better place, at least my little part of it...



I am a Humanist. "What does that mean?" Well, asking the question is the first step in discovering an answer. ha. I hope you take a few minutes of your time to join me in this "quest for answers."

Humanism is a rational philosophy informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion. Affirming the dignity of each human being, it supports the maximization of individual liberty and opportunity consonant with social and planetary responsibility. It advocates the extension of participatory democracy and the expansion of the open society, standing for human rights and social justice. Free of supernaturalism, it recognizes human beings as a part of nature and holds that values-be they religious, ethical, social, or political-have their source in human experience and culture. Humanism thus derives the goals of life from human need and interest rather than from theological or ideological abstractions, and asserts that humanity must take responsibility for its own destiny. •The Humanist Magazine





Below is a video narrated by Carl Sagan, one of my absolute favorite scientist/philosophers. I believe the following video is one of the ..MOST POWERFUL.. on You Tube. I hope you take a few minutes to watch, it might just be the most important video you watch today...