I'm Josh.

My name is Josh. I'm a pretty normal dude, with a resume that reads like a whose who of American industry. I've done sales and marketing, warehouse managent and software engineering. I've delivered papers and reintegrated cast-off commodities, worked in constrution and hospitality. I've cooked in a few kitchens, manned the dish pits in a few others, waited tables and lugged a bus tub in still more. I've designed websites, sold novelty t-shirts, and trained artifically "intelligent" software to identify and "write" poetry, fiction and song lyrisc. I've done a little bit of a lot of things, but a lot of only a few things.

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chief among the few things I've spent a lot of time doing, are charity and art. I was blessed to be born into a family that encouraged me to be both creative and considerate of the need in this world. I went to school to study philosophy- a strange choice, but one I don't regret, as it gave my muse a unique voice and a measured perspective on revolutionary change. I've been writing music, fiction and poetry for two decades, and while these efforts have yet to blossom into a career, they may someday. In any event, I'm still creating.

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As for charity, it too has been a consistent theme in my life. Every week, I spend at least one day at a charity thirft store, and regularly deliver meals to homebound individuals. I've worked with habitat for humanity, building homes for the indigint, and worked as a volunteer educator in Malawi. What's more, I'm a friend to transient, unhoused and down-on-their-luck folk in cities all over the world. I am accutely aware of the excesses of difficulty that face so many today, and I'm commited to doing something to address the indignity of it. 

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That's what this is. Rather than go find yet more hourly work, or take on debt to train in one of a number of fields, the days of which seem numbered, I figured I'd try to carve out a niche that would continue the two dominante themes in my life- namely art and charity. My hope is that this walkathonandon idea will prove resistant to the the forces of creative destruction and the volatility of market whim and manipulation. I pray it become something of undeniable and transcendent value, that is a reliable source of income for both myself and the charities for whom I walk.