CURRENT MISSION

Getting the most of life as an academic in NYC. Loving life & encouraging wellbeing.

ABOUT ME

I enjoy cooking (vegetarian), gardening, biking, fitness of all sorts, SCUBA, reading, philosophy and music. Spend my sessile time listening to 'chillout' tunes on plug.dj.

Adjusting to NYC from Southern California after being raised in South Florida.

I have 5 sisters, and aim to research ways to reduce violence against women and society at large. Studying clinical psychology

PHILOSOPHY

We are stars guiding others, as we ourselves continually sail. Indeed, it is not an ambiguously defined afterlife which we sail towards, but the afterlife of the cosmos themselves which we live now.

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

After years of hosting in San Diego, I now have room to host in Manhattan's Upper West Side. Can host for up to 2 nights.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Experienced host & gracious guest. Loved staying put in San Diego, yet living NYC up!

Interests

Fish (aquarium), flowers and plants (brown thumb, green hopes), aquaponics & hydroponics, science, humor, witty conversation, humanitarianism, faith in our ability to establish a utopia... and make it better.

• fish
• aquaria
• books
• cooking
• vegetarian
• vegan
• fitness
• flying
• gardening
• flowers
• reading
• music
• cycling
• fishing
• camping
• scuba diving
• sailing
• psychology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

The Little Prince
The Mind's Eye
Cannery Row
Coney Island of the Mind
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Stanislaw Lem
The God Delusion
Rumi
Saul Williams
The 13th Floor
Dark City
Brazil
The 3 Amigos
Space Balls
Finding Nemo

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen thunderheads, from above, while flying over Texas one sun-set to evening.
Coral Reefs: I grew up in Florida, an love them.
Green and Blue lightning: while camping on the outer bands of Hurricane Gustav.
Death, and the beginnings of life. D-M-T.

Teach, Learn, Share

I like philosophy, specifically how it may apply to the future of 'social' interaction. Could telephones attain higher sophistication to communicate than the people we may call upon them? Might I be able to create fatty muscle tissue out of my own skin cells, to one day as a vegan-friendly cannibal? Why shouldn't we genetically modify rice for greater health, mindful as we must be of unforeseen consequences? I love questions and the search for novel information!

Countries I’ve Visited

Israel, Mexico, South Africa

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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