Gratitude
– William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Here I express gratitude for my life:
Website Acknowledgements: I give heartfelt thanks to all who contributed, especially Pinde Fu and Katherine Burroughs who built this website; Nina Allmendinger, Rose Sniatowski, Julie Moyer, Kai Safran, Alison Carrington, Matlock Zumsteg, and other assistants who developed content; along with other dear friends, family, students, and colleagues who have given valuable input along the way.
People
- Family
- Relatives
- Friends
- Loved ones
- Classmates
- Teachers
- Mentors
- Students
- Colleagues
- Co-workers
- Assistants
- Yoga buddies
- Healthcare practitioners
- Caregivers
- Great and ordinary people
- All I respect and admire
- All who have shown me kindness and generosity
- All who have smiled and laughed with me
- All who have contributed to our society
- Ancestors
Places
- My Homeland: where I grew up and return to when I can - mountains, canyons, and mesas of northern New Mexico (Los Alamos, Santa Fe, and surroundings)
- Colorado Mountains: where I have been inspired and renewed - hiking, wildflowers, friends, bicycling, yoga, skiing, rivers, hot springs (Crested Butte, Pagosa Springs, and surroundings)
- California Coast: where I spent many happy years - ocean, mountain, flora, fauna, universities (UCSC, Stanford, UCSB, UCB), friends (Santa Cruz, Palo Alto, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, LA, Menlo Park, Aptos, Sausalito, San Diego, Santa Rosa).
- Massachusetts: Harvard, Harvard Forest (Cambridge, Petersham)
- Kansas: KU, my first home (Lawrence)
- Costa Rica: rainforest, beach (La Selva, Monteverde, Las Cruces, Manuel Antonio)
- Panama: Barro Colorado Island
- Mexico: dry forest and beach (Chamela, Troncones, Rosarito)
- Italy: countryside and city, a blind date, love, art, food, travels with Mom (Florence, Tuscany, Amalfi Coast, Venice, Rome, Vienna)
- Austria: lecturing at Forest Ecology Institute, walking, concerts (Vienna)
- Canada: Ottawa, Boreal study sites in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Montreal, Toronto, Banff, Jasper, Kootenay
- Alaska: wildlands, hiking (Anchorage, Seward, Wrangell-St Elias)
- Hawaii: sun, ocean, island people, dolphins, turtles, natural history (Big Island, Maui, Kauai, Oahu)
- New Zealand: like going back in time to a gentler way of living, nature, mountains (Christchurch)
- China: lecturing as an honored guest, seeing amazing sights - Great Wall, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Yellow River, Shaolin Temple, Longmen Caves (Beijing, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Shanghai)
- India: Yoga, people, colors, sounds, smells with the volume turned up (Pune, Mumbai)
- Health Centers: Optimum Health Institute (OHI), Hippocrates Health Institute (HHI), Sanoviv, True North
- Other Travels: Barbuda, Antigua, Jamaica, Bonaire, Peru, Honduras, England, France, Spain
Experiences
- Love of my family: Mom, Dad, Michael, and Dianne
- True friends
- Time spent in nature
- Learning to swim
- Being loved by my parents
- Eating good food
- Playing with friends as a child
- Running barefoot
- Climbing mountains
- Learning botany
- Being on the Environmental Awareness Performance team
- Learning classical guitar
- Falling in love
- Attending USCS
- The Natural History Field Quarter
- Studying elephant seals on Año Nuevo Island
- Backpacking
- Attending Harvard
- Being a postdoc at Stanford
- Being a professor
- Practicing yoga
- Traveling
- My first house
- Finding love
- Helping others
- Cooking
- Laughing
- Walking
- Running
- Dancing
- Reading
- Eating
- Riding my bicycle
Goodness
- Kindness
- Mindfulness
- Gratitude
- Generosity
- Care
- Consideration
- Intelligence
- Friendliness
- Courtesy
- Respect
- Humor
- Passion
- Moderation
- Patience
- Perseverance
- Light Heartedness
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