Look and Listen

Biography

I was born in Montana in 1946. I lived on a remote wheat ranch until age fifteen. I attended a one room school through the Eighth Grade. I sat in a small town high school for two years and hated it. Then my cousins took me in and I attended Arcadia High School, Scottsdale, Arizona, and loved it. I acted in school plays and got a role in a Steven Spielberg movie, Firelight, which he made in his junior year at Arcadia. After high school I returned to Montana, didn't get along with my father, ran away from home, joined the Army. Served in Vietnam as a Casualty Reporter. When I fantasize about being a warrior I remember sitting with the dead and the wounded. I liked being around the war, but nothing happened to me--physically. I'm a member of the Veterans for Peace. I have a BA in Literature in Writing from the University of Arizona. I'm trained as a photographer.

Inspiration

Life is tragedy and romance to me. It's beautiful and gentle and dark and savage and heartless. And there's more out there than we know. It's been said we should preserve the natural world because it's going to give us answers to questions we haven't even learned how to ask yet. There are two trains running in the world: the stereotypical male logic of domination and exploitation versus the intelligence of perceiving and coexisting, preserving. I'm into sex and gunplay--but the great reality is The Goddess--she's the metaphor for the natural world, for a divine, intuitive intelligence, for love, and for great strength.