This is Me

I’m a German-American Fractal Archeologist and Composer in the realms of Family, Software, Art, Business, Education and Theology.

I’m frequently found straddling multiple contexts and cultures, translating between them and helping them understand each other and themselves better. For that reason my totem animal is the platypus. It also reminds me that God has a sense of humor.

My super power and achilles heel is detachment. I have the ability to separate myself from what’s going on around me and see the whole. I can also very easily create distance between myself from those around me. I’m very comfortable spending time by myself in the world of big and small ideas. When interact with people coming from this place, the things I say are not always comprehensible at first. I have grown in this and when I regress, I often hear “I have no context for what you just said” to which immature me would respond “isn’t it obvious?”.

Yes, context is important and no, how my ideas fit is not always obvious. One of the great beauties of this world is that we each are unique and in our uniqueness react differently to our experiences. Maturing is to develop our ability to understand and express our unique perspectives in relationship with others and create a space in ourselves where all the forces at work in us can be in balance. To the extend we succeed in this, we can be a source of life and wholeness to the spaces the people we come in contact with.

Maturity for me means to balance my natural tendency to detach and “float” in big ideas, by creating solutions to problems in the physical world as well as creating story and art in a way that reflects the originality and wholeness of the source of all that is good but inevitably breaks with convention because no one has come before me with my particular being and my particular story.

Building software for life and living has been my way of becoming a citizen in the world of ideas, beneficial systems and unconventional but life giving art. It has also been the social context in which I’ve grown in my ability to see others well hear their stories and collaborate on processes and solutions that bring life and wholeness to areas that may have been broken before.

This blog is part of the journey to become more present and engaged beyond my current comfort zone. In it I’m going to retell some of the stories that shaped my perspective and the universal patterns of life, death and redemption I discovered in them.