My life is overflowing with things I love. I live with wonderful friends in a supportive small community in Berkeley, I get to play with kids on a regular basis, and I am a grad student in seminary, studying to become a radical and fun-loving Unitarian Universalist minister. I grew up in the Bay Area and feel so at home here. I spend a lot of my time these days reading and writing, but I like to get outside as much as possible, even when it rains.

I'm queerspawn (my moms are gay), and I'm third generation queer myself, and still trying to figure out what the word means to me. I'm maleish, big bear, delicate fairy, and get excited by people from butch to androgynous to femme.

I dance, play and sing with abandon, and sometimes I step on people's toes. I have a theater background and I love creating and watching performance. I've been described as a big cuddly teddy bear, which usually I like.

I see myself still just beginning my romantic, sexual, intimate journeys. I am curious about exploring many kinds of intimate relationships, looking forward to lots of interesting and exciting sex, and I am still molding and shaping how I identify in terms of gender, sexuality, preferences, poly/monogamy, etc.

I teach afterschool classes in drama and outdoor games at a couple of local elementary schools. I develop curriculum and facilitate programming in schools with an amazing non-profit that does experiential education around peace and diversity. I am teaching the best sexuality curriculum out there to 7-9th graders. I spend a lot of time studying and in class, learning tools, history, and theology of progressive religious leadership. I also take plenty of great classes outside of school, with organizations such as InterPlay, a community art form for creative expression, and Nonviolent Communication, one of my spiritual practices.

Teaching, laughing, playing, singing, telling stories, relaxing in hot tubs, drinking wine, cooking, acting silly, navigating the bay area, making kids laugh, magic tricks, finding neat nearby spots for hikes, most games, facilitating meetings, listening deeply, creating performance, dressing up.

I think people first notice that I'm real big, often fairly furry and very warm. Soon after, they discover how charming and clever I am.

On OkCupid, they sadly first notice that I am a "22 year old male." And pretty much anyone I'd be interested in dating isn't interested in dating a 22 year old male, categorically. Ah, c'est la vie...

Ah the lists...just copied from facebook...probably a bit out of date.

Books:
The Earthsea Trilogy, The Dark is Rising, Stranger in a Strange Land, Arcadia, The Fire Next Time, Promethea, V for Vendetta, Resistance to Civil Government, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, A Testament of Hope, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Peaceful Warrior, Strega Nona, Keepers of the Earth, Tatterhood, Ender's Game, And Tango Makes Three, Sandman, Tacky the Penguin, The Essential Rumi

Music:
Peter Mayer, Rachel Garlin, G. Love, Bobby McFerrin, Raffi, Dar Williams, Indigo Girls, The Coup, Digable Planets, Aesop Rock, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Brett Dennen, Barenaked Ladies, Rebecca Riots, Woodie Guthrie, Palm Wine Boys, Ben Harper, Tracy Chapman, Jack Johnson, OnlyAmani, The Be Good Tanyas, Kate Wolf, Girlyman

Movies:
The Princess Bride, Finding Neverland, Hook, Toy Story, Little Big League, Little Miss Sunshine, The Sound of Music, The Thomas Crown Affair, Men in Black, Doubt, Mrs. Doubtfire, Shakespeare in Love, Serenity

Food:
Too much to list! I'm a vegetarian, but after that I love so many favorites...Ehtiopian, Thai and Indian always make the top of my list. Homemade lentil soup comes to mind, and really good macaroni and cheese.

Finding fun and pleasurable ways for people to participate in large scale social change.
Developing systems of group processes and decision-making that use our whole bodies, and all our emotional capacities.
Where structures of oppression come from, and how we can liberate ourselves and support each other.
What makes my heart sing and how I can get more of that with people I love.

Out to see a play, soaking at the Essex street hot tub, or singing and cuddling with my housemates. Or, studying...

In my sordid past I spent a week in a juvenile psych ward. I want to put one of those buttons here that says "Ask me how!"

You're interested in seeing a play, coming over for dinner, going on a hike...or just cuddling up and chatting about troubling epistemologies and thea/ological reflection (kidding...unless, of course, you want to!)