Biography

I think we were put on this earth to try to figure it all out, to try to gather a little love and joy, to learn compassion from pain and courage from loss. We are here to find a path with heart and follow it to wherever it leads. We are here to do the best we can at all times, to love deeply, to commit fully, to see, hear, smell, feel and taste the world around us. We are here to laugh, to cry, to hurt, to heal, to endure pain and to find pleasure. Some days we are here for no other reason than to walk among the flowers, to fly a kite against a blue sky, or to feel the warm touch of someone we love. We are here to learn that we cannot be defeated by life unless we choose to surrender.

I have been a tennis pro, a submarine officer, a teacher, a poet, a businessman. I have had enough of both success and failure to understand that they are, in some respects, indistinguishable from each other, two edges of the same sword.

Now I am both a photographer and Mass Care Chief for the American Red Cross. It is a strange mix, but the recipe creates a diversity of experiences which allows me opportunities to serve and interact with others in different ways and different levels of intensity. I am blessed, at this point in my life, to be able to enjoy this dichotomy of careers and experiences.

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