WeSpeakTheBer

stewarding a

multi-passionate life

stewarding a

multi-passionate life

...or at least trying my best to.

we inevitably create and collect different versions of ourselves as we go through life.

you are the result of them all speaking in one voice, this is why we speak the ber.

back in the 1900s

For real though, like, before Google was a thing.

I was given the nickname “the Ber”; there’s a story behind it that involves The Little Giants and a gradual progression from where it started. Eventually, I’ll post about that, but, for now, thank you for visiting :)

Over the last few years, I’ve had the urge to try and document my life more. I want to capture those smaller, day-to-day, moments that I tend to forget, I want to savor the bigger ones that make an impact on my life. I want to document my attempts at growing my passions into businesses so that, God willing, if there are wins, my family and I can reflect back on the hard bits that were on the path.

As a kid, moments like these would have been archived from our VHS camera, then enjoyed years later when I needed that hit of nostalgia; I hope my kids will get the same enjoyment later in life out of what I’ll attempt to do here.

all of the versions of me are still there.

The youngest version of me that was amazed by the simple things, 10 year old me that loved climbing fences and jumping rocks, the age 22 me that caught the travel bug, 18 year old me that realized he loved solo backroad drives, 24 year old me that realized he did NOT want a career on the Texas oil rigs...even 6 year old me that used to be terrified of old people (I think I traced this back to a nursing home visit when an angry, older woman came and took my chicken nuggets, I didn’t know what to do, it got weird).

Anyway, all of those meaningful moments, stretches of learning, periods of growth, and opportunities for experience show up in who I am today and who I’ll be as time goes on.

as a naturally curious person, it occured to me that...

I didn't have to be one thing.

I’m grateful to find myself involved in so many things I love. I get to be a husband to a wife that brings adventure, a father and teacher to two lovable maniacs, a designer leaving my mark in the world, and a sub-par guitar player learning a little every day.