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So I'm here because I'm an accidental love child of the sixties. I was conceived on Valentines Day, 1966. My parents are, my father is a political refugee from former Yugoslavia, so I'm first generation American on his side, and my mother is daughter of the Mayflower and has some Native American as well as being related to _______ so I feel like I'm a true American in several senses of a mixture of cultures and circumstance... and I live in the heart of the country in Boulder, Colorado at the base of the Rocky Mountains where the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains. It's a beautiful place, full of beautiful people, and I love it here. My first memory is of watching the moon landing on television in 1969 so I feel like a child of the future as well as of the past... Had a really interesting life so far... 33 years... a lot of good things have happened, and some not so good things have happened, and... so I'm at a place right now in my life where I'm trying to incorporate the good and the bad and, um... transform negative things into positive things and into wisdom and to... share that with people that I meet and... I find that the best way for me to do that is through art and media and activism... and... so I'm a video producer myself and I make experimental documentaries and I tell my own stories and I tell other people's stories. And I feel that one of the most important things we can do as a planet, as a global culture is to share our stories with one another, share our personal visions and our first person experiences and cultivate understanding and compassion and trust with one another.... and I think that that's going to help to make the world a loving place full of light and love... and so that's what I hope to do with the rest of my days.... however many there may be.