I began writing music when I was seventeen. Music has given a voice to the flow of feelings as I move through my world. Encounters with people and with nature have inspired most of these music feelings.

After growing up in the midwest, I settled in southwest New Mexico . I have lived a rural lifestyle which has served to isolate me from mainstream culture. The years have passed following the cycles of the seasons, working to grow food and to maintain a life that is close to the earth. I like to feel the quietude of the natural world here where the fast pace of a heavily populated world can be balanced in the stillness.

Under the dark canopy of night, my personal struggles and efforts are absorbed into darkness. Both the struggle and the ensuing peace are a part of my life.

(See "The Art of Gentle Transformation" for more.)