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Who I Am, Where I've Been, & Where I'm Going

“We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”  ― Paulo Coelho

I was born in 1980, in the city of Salt Lake. Not a son of a mormon family. Just a son. By the time I was six. I had already lived in a dozen homes. I was an orphan. A wanderer. An unwanted. The world, and all it's chaos had already decided that I was mischief. And it didn't know how to accept me. 

This pattern of life has continued all of my life. With me roaming the plains of Wyoming, the foothills of Colorado, the Mountains of Montana, and living on both the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, and the beaches of the Pacific. 

This earth is not my home, but instead I've chosen to traverse it, to explore it, to breath it in for all it's worth. I became an entrepreneur at an early age. And I haven't looked back. I believe in unschooling. Because I've pretty much taught myself everything I know. And outside the lessons that my father taught me not many souls have had a greater impact on me than reading, traveling, and life experimenting. 

My first job was in a restaurant. It was more about surviving. A restaurant job provides you access to food, and allows you to save money. My second job was an office job. It was the worst of my jobs. After that I determined that jobs weren't really for me. 

The Vision of an Un-Church

On Friendship Society

Post number two of this new blog and I find I’m having trouble getting my thoughts into words.  I have all this random friendship stuff floating around, yet it’s having trouble getting out of my head and onto paper in any intelligible fashion.  I also have pages and pages of notes filled with topic ideas, and yet they aren’t magically transforming into brilliant articles.

Instead of starting where I thought I’d be starting I’m going to talk about my vision.  In the last post I talked about my prophetic dream.  Today I want to talk about a vision for the future.  It’s not necessarily a vision for this blog, although that is a part of it.  This is a vision for something that doesn’t really exist yet.

I have a vision of creating a church that isn’t about religion.  That may sound strange at first, but read on and I hope it may make more sense. 

I’m a regular guy in my late thirties.  I have a wife and a seven year old daughter.  I often think about what it takes to raise a child today.  Not just the necessities of feeding, housing, and educating, but the more intangible items that will define her as a human being. 

How do I teach her to be kind, caring, and compassionate?  How do I teach her to treat others and interact with her peers and with those older and younger?  How do I prevent the selfishness that seems to appear in abundance in today’s society?