Wind and Raven

24/11/2025

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxN51Jrts7osFbNvNTuXmCTivywThBViwR?si=i0Sbx1p16EfIgPpp

Premieres at noon. Grab a coffee and settle in — this one cuts deep. This is the video I’ll be referring back to throughout the Gen X Transplant Bros series....

12/11/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tXgxEU50IQ

Valkyrie Counseling isn’t selling punishment—it’s building capacity. In this video, Steve Patterson introduces his four books, the Healing Pathways program (...

11/11/2025

Happy Veterans Day

10/11/2025

Hey y’all. My brother and I could use a little help. We went live on YouTube, it didn’t go so great, so we re-uploaded it as a regular video.

If you want to help us grow the new channel (and yes, Wind and Raven gets mentioned), just click and let it play.

Here’s the deal: if you only watch 30 seconds, YouTube thinks “eh, people must not like it.” That’s the dreaded algorithm at work, LOL.

So check it out — let it play in the background, or actually watch it if you’ve got time. It’s two brothers talking about both getting liver transplants, what recovery really looks like, and how counseling fits into that whole mess of life. Kind of raw, kind of funny, totally real.

This was recorded live between brothers Steve and Troy Patterson—both liver transplant survivors, both former heavy drinkers, and both learning what it reall...

04/11/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk2SCddFeyQ

Thank you for visiting the channel - please leave any comments or suggestions for topics covering the GenX experience, survival stories, or living outside-th...

02/11/2025

For those interested in more on the transplant era, my brother and I have a series about how both of us ended up in the same boat. If you go, PLEASE like and subscribe, and even if you do not want to listen to the whole thing, turn the column down and minimize to let it play through.

View time is the single most important measurement, so, please, if you do watch, let it play through even if you never return, thanks!

Stories from the trenches of Gen X, survival, and thirty years of remote work. From the Army& Heavy Metal to the Grateful Dead, exile to rebirth — real stories about cancer, transplant, resilience, freedom, and finding meaning after everything changes abroad. Conversations on consciousness, recove...

30/10/2025

This is one of the hardest things for me to watch. David passed not long after we had this conversation. A pillar was lost.

This is one of the many videos available in the six-week online offering: Shamanic Counseling for Recovery. In this clip, I speak with David Bothe of Earth A...

30/10/2025

https://youtu.be/1R-YDmTI0-c

After eleven years of Wind and Raven—from its beginnings as a quiet experiment in consciousness and storytelling to the reflections that carried me through t...

09/09/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkWwZ9ZtPEI

I went to film school at USC after returning from Iraq. This is what life was like for me then, and this is 100% a true story. Hopefully others - especiall...

06/09/2025

30/08/2025

The view of Pinares from Los Alamos in Pereira, Colombia. Dosquebradas