I’ve been a member of the Progressive Bloggers community over on Word of Mouth Blog (WoMb) for years, but since WoMb has gone defunct (or dormant), I’ve transferred my writerly focus over to this personal site.

Then yesterday, Scott Tribe asked if I wanted to add this site to the ProgBlog community, and I hesitated at first, because this tends to be a rather relentlessly personal and navel-gazing blog (well, mostly; I do write stuff like this, too). I do, however, think of myself as a progressive sort, doing my part by living my life according to my principles and writing about it here.

I’m a photographer / artist / singer-songwriter / card reader / astrologer / writer and this blog is the container into (out of?) which I spill everything; I can’t really categorize myself well. On the Political Compass, I am firmly lodged way down in the lower left hand quadrant (below where Gandhi is). I’m a leftie-libertarian, which I count as ‘progressive’ though of course, if you don’t fit in that quadrant, you’re likely to disagree.

What is progressiveness? I suspect that ultimately we’re all coming toward the same central truth from our own positions in the spectral sphere, and that therefore progress is going to look different according to our individual starting places.

“Everything is true, from its point of view,” one of my song lyrics, sums up my belief system about that. So how can we argue, really? Yet, still, we each are a voice in the wilderness, crying to be heard, and I’m peeping my baby bird hunger as much as anybody there. I want to hear others, too; oh if only I could be paid to read stuff on the net I would be rich.

Some history: I was born and raised in logging camps and rough rural villages in the wilderness of north central BC and didn’t get socialized very well as a result.

My manners are atrocious, though I do try to be appropriate as much as I am able, lacking the proper training but having good instincts. I am well liked by those who like me, and strongly disliked by those who don’t, alas for the littleme who wants everybody to like me!

I have long shaggy hair, I wear no makeup except on special occasions, and I don’t shave anywhere. I like to take photos of myself and turn them into art, as you can see here. Clicking on any photo will take you to my flickr page, where the captions can be seen and you can get a closer look.

In addition to the things I name above, I’m a mystic, visionary, poet, and general weirdo. I rather like being weird, and have claimed the term for my own; it protects me from accusations of same. (Conversation from yesterday: “Does this look weird on me?” “You always look weird.” “Oh, thank you!”)

So (as per Scott’s suggestion), here’s my intro to the ProgBlogging community; I’m not sure I quite belong here, not being particularly political in my writing, though I do care, and I write from a desire to change the world in whatever small way I can.

Welcome to ProgBlog readers, do look around and make yourselves at home; I look forward to exploring more of what you all have to offer too.

Note: if you want to hear my music, you can check out my myspace or reverbnation pages as well as the downloads on this site. Best quality sound is on the reverbnation page; other recordings vary from rough to extremely rough. You can also check out the treerootsrevolution.com download page for the older but more polished (ie studio recordings) songs from the band I was in with Peter Cloud Panjoyah and Seamas Manly.

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