-Jungle huts in Papua New Guinea and hyper-clean laboratory facilities in major corporate research centers; -Cultural wanderings from Kurdistan to Houston; -Degrees in engineering and physics struggling for compatibility with a dogged awareness of life beautiful, spiritual, and immeasurable; Such rich diversity of experience results from an abject failure at setting career goals, defining objectives, planning life, and generally taking control. Shoot, I can't even write if trying to follow an outline or chapter structure, much less live life that way. I've had some grandiose adventures (by my very tame personal standards) on mountains and glaciers, in island jungles and North African deserts, and under the waters of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans. But I fell into these not through execution of life-long plans for goals in my life, but by living my life open to the wonders and opportunities offered by the Source of life. This book generally does not mention those life experiences. Truth be known, in my typical unplanned, surrender to the moment manner, I've not finalized what this book will mention. But I know that all the unforeseen and unpredictable events that may appear in my biography remain hollow and meaningless if accrued only for my own experience. Whatever reassurance, insight, and encouragement my books offer will have been distilled from the fruit of those experiences, the grandiose and the tragic, the high exhilarations and the deep grief. I pray my books will pass on some gentle touch of the unforeseen lessons and insights I have been blessed to receive while living this curious biography.