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After a few careers including fighting forest fires, working on Wall Street and having been a successful artist and writer for 25 years, the one constant in my life has been a deep love of wild nature. I've done a lot of paddling in my life including solo trips in the Canadian north, but these days seem more inclined to walk in the woods which I try to do for an hour every day.

I own a home in a wildlife sanctuary in the Adirondacks, about 1 hour and ten minutes from Burlington, and a home in Monkton Vermont. I love to travel. Music is a big part of my life. And good books. I love to read biographies, great fiction, books on investment analysis and business.

I don't have a lot of friends but some very close ones. The closest is probably a man who has devoted his life to wilderness protection. Another is the CEO of a large Vermont company. An ex-girlfriend is also a close friend. I like to be around people who are striving, succeeding and failing, trying to do something worthwhile (to them) with their life.

I've been working on starting a new business for the last two years, day and night, night and day. I launched it a couple of months ago so am just about to get back into the dating scene.

To remind myself of what is important to me in my life, I have posted above my desk:

Quality
In all things:
Friendships, your relationship with time,
with yourself (time in nature, music, books)
Strive for harmony, equilibrium.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
- Mary Oliver, “Summer Day”

And in investing 
Invest with quality people
in quality companies when they are unpopular

“The quality of a man’s life is directly related to his commitment to excellence.”
- Tom Landry, The Dallas Cowboys