I am a Mid-West born college professor and Cinematographer.

The presence experienced and shared by each of us.

Kart Racing, Salsa dancing, Music, cooking and Restaurant hunting.

GodFather I & II, Cyclo, In the Mood for Love, Hero, Anything shot by Connie Hall. Requiem for a Dream, Miller's Crossing, The Learning Tree, Sounder.

John Coltrane, Jimi Hendricks, Elmore James, Sade, Tribe Called Quest, Zap Mama, Glen Hansard, Neil Young, Ben Harper, Stevie Wonder, EW&F, Bob Marley and Prince.

Autobiographies of Malcom X, Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali and Sydney Poitier. Th Alchemist, The four Agreements, Wherever You Go there You Are.

Fill my heart with Love, that my every teardrop may become a star. --Hazrat Inayat Khan.

The day I lost my mother to cancer.