Jonty H Campbell

One of my top priorities as a Man is to endeavor to live as an inspired Man - to see the world as fresh promise of the curious & strange; every morning the unexplored, wonderful and possible - even on those days where it seems nothing's going right.

Let's face it, we all like a moan occasionally, yet there's a grand canyon of difference between moaning, and quietly acknowledging that things are rubbish but getting stuck in regardless. And moaning with inaction won't bathe the baby. To paraphrase Churchill, True "Optimism is going from setback to setback with no loss of enthusiasm".

I'm a lover of hot sauce and cookie dough. A Creator. I translate & polish literary abstractions others are unwilling or unable to do. I slice, I dice, I even make chips. I've learned a few things out here in the world, though the greatest, most fascinating, most important thing I've learned is how much I don't know. There are few things more exciting to me than finding out.

One thing I do know, is that travel is the fastest vaccine for "isms" ever devised. It's trite, but we're all the same really. I'm forever seeking the trail of the next adventure - big, small, foreign or domestic - even the next postal code. I'd love to get a Eurail pass and hitch a trail ‘cross Europe. The Romance of a tooled leather-bound atlas has always held a certain appeal: faraway places with strange sounding names.