tim@dharmaworks.net
When someone asks my wife, Catherine, what I do for a living she now replies, "he's a fly fisherman." If she has more time she might go into the fact that I'm a person who finds spirituality in nature, especially in fly fishing, that I love Mexico and have been studying Spanish, that I've studied Toltec shamanism, and that I am also a painter and part-time consultant. It would take a long conversation to get to the point of bringing up my past life as a mid-level manager for a giant software company.
I grew up in the Midwest and had to leave before they tossed me out for being too liberal to live there. I ended up in the Pacific Northwest where I knew there were mountains, big rivers, saltwater, salmon, and more hiking and skiing than I could ever hope to get to. After spending fifteen years in the software industry I decided to leave it for a more sane lifestyle, to spend more time outdoors than in an office, and to really explore my place in the world. Catherine and I started an organization named DharmaWorks which is a service organization formed to help us practice right livelihood. DharmaWorks is an umbrella that is more a philosophy of doing business, we have for-profit businesses operating underneath DharmaWorks which funds several local and international non-profit organizations.
My portion of DharmaWorks is DharmaWorks Consulting, a software and web-site development company and DharmaWorks Studio, my own private art studio where I work to create oil and pastel paintings, mostly of Washington landscape and waterways. As part of my art training I have been a student at Cornish College of the Arts and The Academy of Realist Art.
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