Owen Richard Kindig
Owen Richard Kindig is a positive futurist and compost toilet builder who spent his first career as a visual dramatist of other people's stories. He won over 40 awards as a video producer and marketing consultant for Nestle Ice Cream, McGraw-Hill, Owens-Illinois, URS, the Columbus Zoo, Digital Equipment Corp., Procter & Gamble, and Nekoosa Packaging.
About half of his body of work was for educational and non-profit organizations such as Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, Denison, Ohio Wesleyan, Cedarville, and Ohio Universities, the American Institute of Physics, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, St. Vincent Family Centers, The Columbus Jewish Foundation, Shalom House, Marburn Academy, Welsh Hills School, and Columbus Torah Academy.
Owen shot on location across North America and in China, England, France, Germany and Switzerland. After moving to Sitka he also freelanced for the Sitka Public Schools and Sitka Community Hospital.
Since retiring as the Public Information Officer of the University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka Campus, he has been focusing on the greatest stories which seem never to be told: the lives cut short by the everyday tragedies of death and injustice. For example, he has written about Emily Wilding Davison, the British suffragette who died while trying to fasten a protest ribbon to the King's racehorse. He has also written a novella about Captain Alexander Elmslie, who went down with the sailing ship Cospatrick in 1876. Owen loves to divert his attention from the sordid news of today, and envision the happy new adventures that will start when the abrupt endings of history morph into new beginnings.
Can you imagine an entirely new dramatic arc? Instead of lives built around avoiding death ... instead of starting stories in frightful networks of disease and disaster, and following unsatisfactory circumstances to a tragic and depressing final end ... imagine the dramatic possibilities of a new reality.
Let's add a new chapter to each story. Let's add a resurrection. A "new beginning" after "the end."
Owen imagines restoration, re-connection, relearning, and reconciliation. How does it taste? How does it make each character feel? What new sensations of freedom snap their nerves to attention? What weight of the world now melts off their shoulders? What joys will they feel? What satisfaction will settle their hearts, as they see their past enemies become repentant, begging for forgiveness? Crimes exposed, true character now in the light of day?
Working with softer hearts and healthy minds and bodies ... working to knit together a peaceable global society. Those are the kinds of stories that now fill Owen's days with dramatic energy, futurist research, and positive imagination.
Owen lives in Sitka, Alaska with Beth, his wife of fifty-some years—as close to an actual paradise as one can get these days. She is a first-time author, too. Her first book, Bible vs. Hell ... and the winner is? will be released very soon. It includes over 1800 Bible verses -- 17% of the entire Bible ... and lets that book do most of the explaining about this controversial subject.
Almost every day the two of them walk and bicycle together, grow plants and watch the Pacific Ocean, just beyond their doorstep. You can find his creative work at his Substack page, World at Rest, his emerging podcasting channel, Bible Theme Discovery, and many essays and videos at Quora.com and Vimeo.com
