Education

• YVCC, Yakima, WA
• A.C. Davis High School

Favorite saying

• ""We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here." - - Richard Dawkins, Unweaving The Rainbow, 1998. "Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men" -- Francis Bacon "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." --Thomas Jefferson "I would love to believe that when I die I will live again. That some thinking, feeling, remembering, part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability is to look death in the eye. And to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides." --Carl Sagan"