Stay steady on hard ground, and build what lasts.

I learned everything by lamplight, and by helping Masan.

If you have read this far, you are carrying something: a family pattern you want to end with you, a community deciding what to keep, a mind that has not been quiet in years. I was raised for that carry.

My great-grandparents raised me at a sheep camp on Black Mesa, in a hogan without electricity, where Masan taught me to speak only what I want built. In college I met an identity crisis and an inferiority crisis, came through on one discovery, that I could be who I was, and graduated Standard Bearer.

After thirty years in councils and boardrooms, I write the Ancestral Watch novels, publish the free Abundance Mindset Magazine, and lead sessions and retreats on the far messenger principles. For my doctorate in human performance and intergenerational healing I study the far messengers of the desert, the ocean, the high passes and the songlines, runners and navigators who, continents apart, arrived at the same skills: settling the breath and the nervous system under threat, lasting the distance, and reading their bodies and the world. All of it is for the one carrying something a long way. There is room.

• MBAand twenty years as an entrepreneur, including co-founding a renewable energy company
• Executiveyears leading divisions, programs and teams
• Hall of FameNorthern Arizona University, College of Business
• PhD candidateSustainable Development, Prescott College
• Teacherat 1440 Multiversity, and in gatherings on several continents