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I teach Orchestra and Computer Lab at Stevens Middle School and at Dry Creek Elementary in Port Angeles, Washington. (P.A. Calendar of events.) My wife and I both perform in the Port Angeles Symphony. I play viola and Deborah plays violin. Together we run the North Olympic Youth Symphonies. A community youth orchestra with students from first grade through high school.

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Last summer we went with the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra to Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria. When we returned I wrote a little travel log about our trip and sent it to my friends. If you would like to view it just click here .

Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a Marvel. You are unique. In all of the world there is no other child like you. And look at your body--what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must cherish one another. You must work--we must all work--to make this world worthy of it's children
Pablo Casals

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve,
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health, that I might do greater things,
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy,
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for power, that I might have the prase of men,
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life,
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing I asked for --
but everything I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am, among all men, most richly blessed.
Anonymous confederate soldier

"To sum up: we must be active in all that the present moment demands of us, but in everything else remain passive and abandoned and do nothing but peacefully await the promptings of God."
(Jean-Pierre de Caussade: "Abandonment to Divine Providence")