"We must be the change we wish to see in the world" -Gandhi

This channel is a drama-free zone. There will be no insults, hate, profanity, etc. permitted on this channel... EVER. If you do post a comment with obscenities or that is abusive, expect it to be deleted. Don't respond to abuse... All it does is fuel the fires. R.I.D. works, responding doesn't. Recognize, Ignore, Delete.

My channel is purely for promotion of humanitarian causes and human interest stories, photo essays, Vlogging, music that I sing, and FRIENDS!!

ALL PHOTOS USED IN POSTED VIDEOS ARE OF MY OWN CREATION. ALL MUSIC IN MY VIDEOS EITHER SUNG BY ME OR IS USED WITH FULL PERMISSION FROM THE ARTISTS (or in the case of Paul Levine, his agent and estate). Featured Artists (and friends of mine) include Doctor J (Austrian artist), Paul Levine, MartMart, dabiribd (Ben), and Steven Wiseman. My background was created using 7 photos I've taken in Colorado, Samoa, and Costa Rica.

When I was 11 years old, I joined 4-H. When I did, I made a pledge. This pledge states:

"I pledge, My head to clearer thinking,
my heart to greater loyalty,
my hands to larger service,
and my health to better living
for my club, my community, my country,
and my world"

I took this pledge to heart, for I already knew the importance of helping others, and felt an insatiable desire to do my best to try and make things a little better. The 4-H motto at the time was "To make the best better."

To this day, I try to live by that pledge I took so many years ago. Along the way, I have had my own share of trials, which others have helped me through, and in doing so, they reaffirmed the importance of helping others in me.

I go to a Unitarian Universalist church, which is very active in humanitarian efforts (Habitat for Humanity, Heifer Project, Drumbeat for Darfur, other causes, and my church sends a delegation to Guatemala every year to give scholarships to Mayan kids so that they may finish high school).

One of my targets for my channel on YouTube is to do exactly that, by sharing with you human interest stories, ideas, and values. This channel is in the process of being completely re-done in hopes of attracting a larger audience to spread this message. To start, watch my Random Acts of Kindness video, and visit the channels of these people who have also used videos on their channels to try and make a difference: YTsHaDoWkNiGhT, DrLemur, Lysosomal, VioletKitty411, Urgelt, timewarlord, AngelBritney, carnegiemellonu (Randy Pausch lectures), Geriatric1927, TexasFlood30, WheresMJ, campascca, taragolden, UpDownMostly, LordSardonic, YoungTubersUnited2, sainter1

"I will never let my schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain, aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens