Teaching English, playing table tennis, speaking Ukrainian, walking, running, Ultimate, Camping, Hiking, Playing guitar, traveling

Hiking, Philosophy, Nature, Literature, Art, Music

Flying Lotus, Every Time I Die, Boris, K.I.Z., F#cked Up, James Blake, Seeed, Pink Floyd, At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta Mastodon, Arcade Fire, Talking Heads, Glassjaw, Explosions in the Sky, The Allman Brothers, Outkast, O.C.M.S., Drive-By Truckers, Sigur Ros

No Country for Old Men, The Shining, Breathless, Black Swan, Tombstone, Groundhog Day, Seven Samurai

Notes from the Underground, The Stranger, Blood Meridian, The Road, Brothers Karamazov, The Giving Tree, Shantaram, Savage Detectives

"To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle."
Confucius

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
Steve Prefontaine

"Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish."
John Muir