
To the reader:
I would also like to start off this blog with a brief excerpt to manage expectations. I don’t know where this is going, as Royal can attest, if you ever stepped off of an ambulance with me and ask “What’s the plan” my answer 9/10 times is “we’re gonna wing it”. I am approaching this without expectations or a goal in mind. It may be travel stories, it may be musings or entries from my journal if I feel vulnerable enough to share them, it may (will) be esoteric horse shit, I have no clue. I will do my best to show up authentically and share my current place however please remember, these entries are static points in time, moments in a continuum of what I hope to be growth. I am doing this because I note in myself an unwillingness to share with those I love, a fear of judgment, a fear of my own inadequacies, and the cure for this is action. I hope you enjoy, but I am working on not giving a shit if you don’t, so peruse at your leisure and know that if you wander to this page I send you nothing but love, peace, and happiness.
Love,
Fitz
Disclaimers
The thoughts, opinions, and beliefs expressed in this blog do not represent the position of the US State department, the Peace Corps, or any individual beyond myself.
Edit: It would seem people whom I have never met have begun to wander into this corner of the internet. Welcome, I hope you enjoy my musings and bullshit, I’m just another dude with a keyboard and a camera wandering around trying to do something good. Feel free to reach out and say hi.
Oh, and I’m probably going to cuss a lot
Ps: To the poor soul running my next background check, I’m so sorry you are forced to read this drivel.
What am I Reading?
Shogun -James Clavell
The Poetics of Space- Gaston Bachelard
The electric cool aid acid test - Tom Wolfe
We Owe You Nothing - Punk Planet
The Autobiography of Malcom X- Malcolm X/Alex Haley
Ideas and opinions- Albert Einstein
Cosmos- Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan & Neil Degrasse Tyson
On Anarchism-Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media- Edward S Herman & Noam Chomsky
Leadership: In Turbulent Times-Doris Kearns Goodwin
The letters between Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac
The Art of Happiness- Dalai Lama
A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn
Done
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Tuesdays with Morrie- MItch Albom
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Wind Sand and Stars -Atoine de Saint
Barbarian Days- William Finnegan
Shantaram- Gregory David Roberts
The Little Prince -Antoine de Saint Exupéry
A place of my own -Michael Pollan
To Kill a Mockinbird-Harper Lee
It’s What I Do- Lynsey Addario
Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea- Jaimal Yogis
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption and the Soul of Surfing- Chas Smith
A Psalm for the Wild-Built: A Monk and Robot Book-Becky Chambers
Wayfarers Series- Becky Chambers
Letters to a Young Poet - Rilk
Kiss or kill - mark twight
The things they Carried- Tim O'Brien
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)- Hunter S. Thompson
Wind, Sand and Stars-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life- William Finnegan
Chronicles: vol 1 - Bob Dylan