Weird, Wonderful & free.

The Coconut Boat or Basket Boat of Vietnam is almost a perfect allegory for how we feel about life. Oppressed by the upper echelons, the Vietnamese manufactured a way to break free and escape the tyranny. Photo by Darren Fielding

It weighs you down, so heavy, like a lead-weighted blanket. The anvils of our time—societal pressures, the 9-to-5 grind, finding time to make time for ourselves.

It is ALL TOO MUCH!

We were not made to live in these fluorescent rat wheels. Our eyes were made to see wondrous things, to behold and bear witness to the weird and wonderful.

Tanzinne and I have yearned for freedom for as long as we can remember. When we were engaged, we used to daydream together about our "adventure marriage," where we would explore this weird and wondrous world, learning more about ourselves, our place in it, and our relationship.

But life.

—that trickster—deals hands from decks we don't recognize. We thought we were playing UNO, but it turns out we're actually playing some weird amalgamation of rummy and blackjack 21.

All this to say, really, is that we started Weird, But I Like It with a hope and vision for ourselves and whoever will join us.

We hope to discover more of this weird and wonderful world. We dare to look beyond our cordoned-off neighbourhoods and venture into places riddled with stories, with new things to teach us, and sights, sounds, and tastes that might awaken who we are destined to be: free, ever-changing, and ever-growing.

We yearn to be Weird, Wonderful & Free.

Darren & Tanzinne