I believe in elite elegance, finesse, and mastery. I believe in achieving balance and comfort through superfluous aspiration and replicated reciprocation.

"Be Better for the World."

"Listen twice.... then speak."

"Do not be short-changed by choosing personality over character."

"Kick it forward."

"Deserve Victory."

"Good choices come from experience. Experience comes from bad choices."

"Failure makes choices."

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" .

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."

"The artless art is the art of the soul at peace, like moonlight mirrored in a deep lake. The ultimate aim of the artist is to use his daily activity to become a past master of life, and so lay hold of the art of living. Masters in all branches of art must first be masters of living, for the soul creates everything."

"Grow wide shoulders ... you will surely need them.

Patience, prudence, and practice provide perpetual positive progression of perception, presentation, and production.

My father's paternal side is Irish and then Norman before that (French raiders into Northern Ireland). My grandfather was a power engineer in the mines in northern Ontario. Parrotts are settlers in southwestern Manitoba and did stuff like build a portion of Brandon (labourers, not owners) and a church just outside of town where we get buried. My father's maternal side (green tartan Ferguson) is Scottish. They were settlers and ranchers in Okotoks and Peace River here in Alberta. My maternal grandfather was a staff sergeant in the RCMP back when the detachments he was responsible for in northern Manitoba were a lot like Apocalypse Now. Extremely calm man with no sense of humour that hid family could ever detect, outside of finding people amusing.

My mother's mother is French, my mother's father is Flemish.