Today, we are talking with Steve Smith. Steve is a dreamer and an explorer of ideas, whose eternal inner calling is to push the boundary at the edge of the "desert of the real" toward a vision of a brave and loving world. He completed the Diana's Grove Mystery School Rite of Passage program in 2008, and has worked with several groups to promote that tradition's ritual arts. His enthusiastic curiosity has provided a revolving door of pursuits over the years, but his lifelong loves of martial arts and video games has never left him. He teaches game development part-time at Johnson County Community College, squeezes in indie development when he can, and works as a research and development programmer for an engineering simulation company. He joyfully studies Chen taijiquan with Chen Huixian, and looks forward to the day when he can visit Chen village, the birthplace of taijiquan. He lives near Kansas City with his three cat-shaped marauders.