CURRENT MISSION
To retrace my roots on the European continent while continuing to dance

ABOUT ME

I am a lover of life, seeking to be awake in every moment, and to share with all spirits around me. I have learned that the greatest joy of life is to give love to those one is connected to. I do not follow one book, but read many, not only with my mind but my heart as well and find so many beautiful common threads beneath words and language.

I started life with a very lucky roll of the dice, and I know that is not true for so many, so I aspire to use the opportunities I have access to by merit of my birth, nationality, education, skin tone, gender, social network, for the benefit of others. This is my compass on the journey of a lifetime. I know I am not just myself, but everything that nourishes me and everything that I nourish.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

So far I have only received generosity of wonderful hosts in Latin America and Europe. I still feel I am just beginning

Beginning June 15h I will be able to host travellers at the communitc center (Medical clinic, School, Orphan's care) where I will be living in Sokode, Ghana, and will be so happy to introduce travellers to the communtiy and the work we are doing together.

Interests

Listening, Learning from different perspectives, the wisdom of natural elements, human wisdom found in books and conversations, expressive movements in dance and martial arts, music!, film, chess, working out of love, working with soil, preparing meals for loved ones (myself included), meeting new people, hiking and camping, seeing new places, just breathing and finding bliss.

• arts
• writing
• books
• poetry
• beauty
• dancing
• education
• working out
• drinking
• chess
• music
• hiking
• camping
• martial arts
• teaching
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Directors: Andrei Tartovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Hayao Miyazaki

Authors: J.M. Coetzee, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Haruki Marukami, Milan Kundera,

Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Rumi,

I prefer music that has some roots in African style percussion (Brazilian, Cuban as well) and rhythmic strings from middle east. Jazz can be great. I like some modern rock a good deal, but usually not so hard, and some modern DJs like Dj Shadow or Flying lotus, but I dont feel I can enter into a completely techno world with no roots in human voice or the physical body of the world.

What is most essential is the true creative spark, by whatever name you chose

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Poetry writing, Salsa, Dance Improvisation, Chess

Learn: Languages other than those I know, your personal treasures, the details of life that highlight its beauty to you, any and every new perspective!

Share: New moments, Honesty,

We may pour eachother a glass from our bottled up experience, smell and drink, feel the world become softer, more liquid and let it flow.

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