Hello and welcome.
I’m Ethan, a creative stoked on curiosity and wonder ever-so-grateful to be here and now on a planet covered in life cruising the void of space.
At sixteen years old, a near death experience forever changed my life. Seeing that a lifetime is no guarantee, I sought to live now and a better understanding of “what’s really going on on here?” After pedaling a bicycle across the USA at twenty-one, I recognized shoestring-cheap travel and reading books as a means of pursuing both and set out on what became a five-year walkabout.
In ways I could have never imagined that journey changed me. How I spend my time, see the world, my sense of “self” — and much more — was enormously and forever altered. Writing along the way, I shared what I learned and discovered a creative vein within me.
I write to share awareness of the most profound, awesome, and useful things I find in my own experience. This blog has also become a means of connecting with others, increasing my “surface area for serendipity” in all sorts of remarkable ways, and bringing people together for a wondrous annual experiment in community I host called WONDER WANDER.
Heading out for a sunset sand dune tea ceremony at WONDER WANDER 2021.
Adventures I’ve lived:
Recovered from a traumatic brain infection at the age of sixteen, barely graduating high school
Pedaled a bicycle across the United States raising $96,000 for the children’s hospital that saved my life
Graduated magna cum laude from Northern Arizona University with a bachelor’s in Biomedical Science and minor in Chemistry
Lived as an expat in Playa del Carmen, MX for three months
Reopened a huge, historic log-cabin lodge and bar just outside Yellowstone National Park and ran it for three remarkable summers
Tramped about New Zealand reading books for five months
Meditated ten hours a day for ten days straight at a Vipassana meditation retreat (highly recommended)
Rambled about North America in a Honda Element home on wheels
Earned a private pilot’s license (and half my instrument training) before stopping flight school due to the coronavirus pandemic
Founded a blossoming real estate photography business with a friend (TruLens, Desert Lens, Denver Lens)
Played “digital nomad” mucking about Colombia for 37 days
Lived beachside in Ecuador for two Decembers and learned to surf
Late Night Letters
The last night of each month, I write and send a letter along with the things I have recently created to my fellow beings. Presently, over 3,000 of them. An opportunity to say something worthwhile to many, it’s a privilege I take far from granted.
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