Passivity is a doubly relative phenomenon, relative to the activity of the one who acts and to the existence of the one who suffers…It is a relation of one being to another being and not one of one being to a nothingness.

One can conceive of a creation on condition that the created being recover itself, tear itself away from the creator in order to close in on itself immediately and assume its being…

What can the relativity of being mean for an existent if not that the existent has its own being in something other than itself.”

—Jean-Paul Sartre

Corruption yet has eyes to see.

Dead for a hundred years, the star

Still burns for us above the tree.

Between the cause and the effect,

Time, like the custom of the street,

Teaches our eyes till they expect

What is no longer theirs to meet:

Teaches our eyes until the face

That smiles in mirrors when we smile—

Still young, still fair, still full of grace—

Stands for our aging hearts awhile.

—Archibald MacLeish

For anyone who knows me, I have an adventurous spirit.  My soul is a picky eater and has a taste for only what is unfamiliar and new.  When I engage in an experience I like to keep one simple saying in mind, “the exact opposite of a phenomenon is a complete circle.”  This means that when looking for a phenomenal experience you cannot do the same thing twice, cycles are the enemy of the everyday new experience.

After 4 years of living in a predominately urban atmosphere, I have returned to a rural lifestyle with a greater love and understanding for the outdoors.  I would have to say the thing I love most about nature is Mother Nature’s ability to speak truth.  As all living things, my actions are dictated by the tilt of the Earth and am greatly effected by the ultimate condition of the planet.

I have fished the deep waters of the gulf for red snapper and even some Pacific marlin fishing on the Baja Peninsula.  What I have enjoyed most regularly is smallmouth bass.  As any angler could tell you, there is no other feeling in the world than a fish hitting your line and setting the hook. I have been fishing much of the Upper Potomac River for the past 6 years. Learning to navigate the water and judge the current, I am able to position myself better for my cast.  Fishing has taught me much about myself. Some days I have a steady rhythm and can catch every beauty in the river, and other days, no matter if my rhythm is “on” or “off”, fish simply won’t bite.  BUT, as a good friend once told me, that’s what makes fishing FISHING.  Some days you catch ‘em, some times you don’t, but you make the best out of it.

“My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things – trout as well as eternal salvation – came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy.”

Not only has fishing and kayaking helped me as a person, but long-distance biking has done an incredible job boosting my endurance and motivational thinking.  I have endured many miles of giving up along a 40+ mile trip, but maintaining a constant thought of a final arrival is the key to ultimate success.

A Capitalist’s worst enemy is a masked superhero. FACT: Capitalism never solves it’s crises problems, it just moves them around geographically.