I was raised in the rugged Land of Enchantment, where the land has little patience for illusion. Ranches, horses, and long seasons among in the Gila Wilderness, and the Mescalero Apache taught me that reality always wins. The Marine Corps reinforced the lesson. I earned the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor, deployed multiple times to the Middle East, and served long enough to become known simply as “Top.”
But the hardest expeditions aren’t across deserts or mountains.
They’re into the nature of reality itself.
Everything I’ve experienced has convinced me that our age suffers less from a lack of information than from a loss of orientation. We’ve forgotten how to distinguish truth from preference, wisdom from intelligence, virtue from performance, and worship from distraction.
So I continue the work of a pilgrim—digging through Scripture, history, philosophy, and theology in search of the patterns that have always been there. My goal is simple: recover what is true, pursue what is good, behold what is beautiful, and pass those discoveries to the next traveler.
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