BT#0001

Motto

Keep rowing.

Current Observation

Blue, blue sky. Sun with one streak of cloud. snow on the very top of the mountain. Leaves just beginning to bud. Crows flying. Birds chirping. My beard is too long.

My Special Place

Bamburi Beach, Mombasa, Kenya.

because

Warm, sunny, tropical, humid, coconuts, ocean breeze, swimming in clear water with a school of barracuda below. Pistachio ice cream from the Blue room. Home made fudge. Kikois and flip-flops

True Home

The Moon

because

Its... close, yet far

Origin Story

Origin

I come from a mother

Afterlife

I will return to the ground and eventually re-emerge, recomposed as something else

Migration Sequence

MIGRATION SEQUENCE [ loc | yr ]: Nairobi | 1958 | 0 ✈ Machakos | 1959 | 0 ✈ Nairobi | 1960 | 4 ✈ London | England | 1970 | 12 ✈ Wellington | Somerset | 1971 |13 ✈ Vancouver | Canada | 1973 |15 ✈ San Francisco | 1977 | 19 ✈ Seattle | 1979 | 21 ✈ Vancouver | 1982 | 23 ✈ Milan | Italy | 1986 | 28 ✈ Bari | Italy | 1987 | 29 ✈ Milan | Itlay | 1988 | 30 ✈ Vancouver | Canada | 1996 | 38 ✈ Roberts Creek | BC | 2005 | 47 ✈ Vancouver | Canada | 2012 | 54 ✈ Malibu | 2017 | 59 ✈ Vancouver | Canada | 2018 | 60

Past | Present | Future

...pick some words that live in your past

shoulda

...a few from your present

in the delta

...and one you are perhaps saving for the future

sayonara?

Memory Stack

Smell
  • The first smell of the ocean, still 10 miles from the coast on the drive to Mombasa.
  • The smell of the earth in Nairobi after a mid-afternoon rain
  • Aromas from my mum's kitchen as a child
Taste
  • My mum's masala fish (tilapia) with potato curry and dahl.
  • Samosas
  • Chick-pea curry with sweet saffron rice
  • Begum Auntie's kebabs
Sound
  • Crickets in the evening
  • The unreal swooshing of flights of birds who lived in the cliffs near Devils Tooth in Kenya
  • The surf on Bamburi Beach
Sight
  • My son's birth
  • A leopard in the trees above my head while camping
  • A massive school of barracuda 30 feet below me while snorkeling - crystal clear
Touch
  • Walking on the beach in Roberts Creek, the cold squishy super green algae between my toes. Loved. Hated.
Sixth sense
  • The body tingle I get when I hear some great music, or see something amazing.

Gifts | Challenges | Aspirations

Gifts
  • The ability to do many things - well
  • A sense of contentment I never really worked to acquire
Challenges
  • An anxiety that has come to just hang around
  • An overly trusting nature - a projection that others also see things in the same way
  • Things I drag along
  • A fragmented sense of home
Aspirations
  • To stay the course - like Parsifal "between the valleys"
  • To age with grace and enjoy the fruits of time invested in life
  • To stay true to the effort of leaning in to make a difference

Lost | Found

Lost

my way

Found

the key

My Soundtrack

My favourite tunes

Leonard Cohen
Adele
Sade
Air
The Beatles
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Enigma
Oliver Schroer (Camino)
Aretha Franklin
Orchestra Boabab
Ali Farka Toure
Toumani Diabate
Alice Coltrane
Amy Winehouse
Arvo Part
Brian Eno
KD Lang
Ry Cooder
...

Style

Focus

Ideas

Orientation

The big picture

Personality

EXPLORER