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I like to have fun, and enjoy long walks on the beach and quiet evenings at home. No, no, wait! That would be a Black Lab...

Surely we can do better than that. I'd like a partner who will share my excitement at the possibilities every morning, and the sunset over the river each evening, to revel in our adventure together. To have a life of significance.

Why not be extraordinary?

I integrate hard work, passionate play, and deep living, in the natural rural world of my wooded hillsides and rocky river, with an emphasis on local community.

Love movies, wilderness, books, museums, old fashioned diners, working draft horses, scuba diving, galleries, firefighting, canoeing, wood heat, antique cars, vegetable gardening, full moons, working soil, and skinny-dipping. At times I have raised nearly all my own food, and will again.

My sense of humor is endless, from silly to sardonic, also a thoughtful if provocative conversationalist. I need to always be learning and insist on being a participant in life, not a spectator. A traveller, not a tourist.

Voted "most interesting person I ever met" by all my ex's, not easily labelled or pigeonholed, I have always tried to think for myself, determine my own carefully considered values, and actively live by them. More often done what I felt was right than what would've been smart.

Extensively travelled and over educated.

A capable dilettante, practical romantic, I'm both pragmatic and naive. Strong on the outside, gentle on the inside.

The future ain't what it used to be. The planet is in trouble and so are we. I have for my entire life been assembling the experience, the skills, the tools, and the place, to thrive in the emerging global sea-changes - and love life while doing it. It's Time to Do Epic Shit!!!

Otters play in my millpond, and so do I.

Educated, eclectic, travelled, adventurous, thoughtful, self actualized. Fit, slender, muscular, slightly weatherbeaten. Extremely involved and active.

Healthy as a horse and almost as smart. Have all my teeth and hair. Just hitting my stride in life, and digging it.

Raising my wonderful young daughter is fundamental to all I do and aspire to do. Of course.

I have always tried to be a producer more than a consumer. I don't 'stop to smell the flowers'...I plant the flowers. Literally. I volunteer various ways in my small town. It is such a cosmic privilege to be here, of all the places in the world.

Presently working at physically restoring two historic water mills I own with the goal of producing fish-safe zero-emmissions commercial Hydro-power. Also I am restoring the land to productivity, creating fields and gardens. Along the river there is a herd of Scottish Highland cattle grazing under the trees on my hillside, and a potential market garden forming on the bottomland. Building up a sustainable and productive farmstead is well underway.

Sometimes it seems overwhelming to have the good fortune of so much potential. And somewhat pointless if it is not shared.

For 'outside' work I design, build, and restore Timber-Frame barns and homes, using traditional techniques. For money I've also dived with sharks, travelled in sales, hung church bells, made maple syrup, and everything in between. At times I have raised nearly all my own food, and will again.

I have collected an extremely broad range of experiences and interests that have always been more important and enriching to me than a corner office.

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Husking coconuts with a pointed stick. I'll show you how.

Reading above my grade level.

Doing things for the first time, even when they scare me...
"In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work us." Rilke

Being a great single Dad. (See above...)

Figuring things out and making things happen, usually 'outside the box'. ("They didn't say it couldn't be done. Actually, they said it *shouldn't* be done..")

Analog guy in a digital world. I can build a fireplace or a barn, write an editorial, ax-hew a barn timber or weld a strap-hinge, navigate a mangrove swamp or guide a night dive - while quoting Shakespeare AND Monty Python. I've done many, many, other things also - but none of them in cyber-space, or on Wall Street...

"While I am compelled by weight of opinion to admit to being one of the handsomest men of my generation I also have to concede that this generation is now a little seedy, and I with it." -- Raymond Chandler

Seriously, I don't know. You'd have to ask them. Possibly my respectful cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary approach to people. Perhaps my trans-Atlantic way of speaking. Or my subversive sense of humor. Or, maybe they just think I'm a jerk.

Good basic foods, excellently cooked over an open fire. By me.

NPR, Imus, Wendell Berry, Ani DiFranco, Werner Herzog, Kurt Vonnegut, Jim Kunstler, David Cronenberg, Tina Turner, David Lynch, Pink Floyd, Henry David Thoreau, Luc Besson, the OED, Stones, Wallace and Gromit, Edward Abbey, R. Crumb, John Donne, Hunter Thompson, Jaques Cousteau, Richard Brautigan.

If you feel it is important to tell me your favorite TV shows, we are probably on divergent paths.

Fresh natural water to drink. Intimate interaction with the outside world, daily.

Endeavors of magnitude.

Good tools, and lots of 'em.

Mental challenge. Continued personal growth.

Independent action. Self determination. Accomplishment despite personal risk. Activities where consequences matter.

Reading. Learning. Sharing.

- Actually, a great gift in life (dammit!) has been to learn there is very little I could not live without if I had to.

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The convergence and linkage between climate change, energy decline, and socio-economic collapse, and the need for true pioneers in this new century. How to be one.

How to enhance and rebuild community. (see above.)

What we can do to help the next generation. (see above.)

How to find a compatible date. (See all of above.)

At a local event or watching a movie at home.

Or observing the beavers in the river as the sun sets, and waiting to see a shooting star.

I am a Frisbeetarian. I believe that after death our souls land on the roof and get stuck there.

If...you appreciate Truth, Beauty, and Weirdness, and relish adventure and exploration, both inner and outer.

If...on the ship of life you'd rather be an active crew member than a passive passenger.

If... you like vanilla okay - but enjoy other flavors too.

If... you've ever dreamed Mefloquine dreams, or swum with wild dolphins.

If...you are aware of the Great Shift already underway. If you no longer are comfortable with membership in our consumerist society, and feel it is important to personally make a difference - in how we inhabit the landscape both as individuals and as a civilization.

(And... if you look forward to that as a positive and rewarding prospect!)

If...intellectual curiosity is important, as is being physically active and self motivated. Spark!

Personal loyalty and fundamental kindness are important too.

I love to learn and be stimulated by what others have to offer. Surprise me!