CURRENT MISSION

to live until I die

ABOUT ME

I am a retired educator. I taught young adults in the SC prison system from 1988 to 2008. I volunteer my time with local and wider Quaker organizations, Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), play with my grandchildren and travel as much as I can.

Friend of Bill W. -- if you know what I mean.

PHILOSOPHY

I seek to live at peace with myself and my world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My apt. is very small and I shall have to make it more inviting before I can host other CSers. I am available to meet for coffee or lunch and give tours of the local attractions in Columbia, SC.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I spent a month or so in the Netherlands, in 2010, visiting parts of the country I had not seen before. My hosts lived in places as diverse as Amstelhoek and Leeuwarden. I experienced night life in Utrecht, driving the countryside of Frisland, and visiting cheese markets in Gouda (you may not be able to pronounce it, but it's where that cheese is made) and a local dairy that produced its own cheese -from the grass to the display case. I made a good friend in Groningen and we catch up every time we are in one another's neighborhoods.

Interests

art, music, film, camping, local cuisine, historical sites, philosophy, politics, people: more recently, the early history of Christianity and how it can become more relevant in the world today.

• arts
• cooking
• cheese
• coffee
• politics
• traveling
• music
• camping
• christian
• teaching
• history
• volunteering
• tours
• historic sites

Music, Movies, and Books

Classic (especially silent) Films: The Passion of Joan of Arc; Metropolis; Aelita, Queen of Mars; Intolerance; Hindle Wakes; The Kid; Modern Times; City Lights; The Great Dictator; Nosferatu; anything with Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd; The Cocoanuts; the list goes on.

The Beatles; Leadbelly; Woody Guthrie; Fats Waller; Mendelssohn; Scott Joplin; Kurt Weill; George Gershwin; Charles Ives; live opera; again, the list goes on.

Mark Twain; Edgar Allen Poe; Stephen King; Bart Ehrman; C.S. Lewis (children's books mostly); A Brief History of Time, etc.; The Greatest Show on Earth (Richard Dawkins); Dr. Suess; Maurice Sendak...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

sunrise in the Grand Canyon

Teach, Learn, Share

I enjoy cooking southern American foods (grits, biscuits, corn bread, greens) and experimenting with new ingredients.

What I Can Share with Hosts

conversation, cooking and eating together, an open mind and heart

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Netherlands, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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