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