I have had the privilege of attending two lectures by Wade Davis, and he knows how to hold the attention of an audience. I have also read several books and magazine articles by him, and they are all excellent. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest is especially good.

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World originated with a CBC Massie Lecture, delivered in 2009. This book was published about the same time. If anything, the message is more important now than it was 15 years ago.

Now, Davis is a scientist. He doesn't believe that the Earth rests on the back of a very large turtle, and neither should you. He also doesn't mention that ancient cultures had some traditions such as human sacrifice and pedicide that most people find abhorrent. That's because the cultures Davis describes have managed to exist for thousands of years without killing each other, starving to death, or destroying their habitat, things that our society hasn't figured out yet. As he put it, "to acknowledge the wonder of other cultures is not to denigrate our way of life but rather to recognize with some humility that other peoples, flawed as they too may be, nevertheless contribute to our collective heritage, the human repertoire of ideas, beliefs, and adaptations that have historically allowed us as a species to thrive."

My cover of a song by Robbie Robertson.

Videographer Angela Matthews was my house/cat sitter for the month of October, 2019. She made this great video.

I recorded and edited this. Includes Spanish subtitles/subtitulo en español.

A documentary film about Volcán de Pacaya and Volcán de Fuego, including video footage of the latter.

I retired in February, 2012, and now live in Guanajuato, in Mexico's central highlands. You can read all about the place in Wikipedia.

I've put up a couple of blog postings about Mexico here and here. There's more on the way.

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