places i call home: houston. nashville. nicaragua. rwanda. d.c.

family: two brothers. one sister-n-law. one niece. two amazing parents. wise grandparents. goofy relatives.

friends: i love 'em.

right now: in D.C., working for Razoo, enjoying the sites and friends in the capital city.

I believe we are called to deeply, sincerely, achingly love people. IF we really love people like that, things will change. they'd have to.

Desmond Tutu, Sam Cassell. oh yea. and, of course, the ole' bard himself: Will Shakespeare.

"You ought to believe something in life, believe that thing so fervently that you will stand up with it until the end of your days..." --MLK Jr.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."--Teddy Roosevelt

Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Scotland, England, Romania, Moldova, Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina.....and all 50 states (thanks to my dad and our childhood ,cross-country RV trips)

long nights up with good friends, amazing music, wandering, soft blankets, mountains, cookies, silence, e.e.cummings, the ocean, camp ozark, my family, the smell of fire, anything goofy,anything on the edge of something else(coasts, crusts, bridges, etc.) climbing things and running places, the Bible.

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