CURRENT MISSION

Social Dance and Music

ABOUT ME

I live in a fine fine place in Louisville, between a place called The Patronage and a place called Chichester Cloisters.

I work towards the south at a community center for mostly immigrants in refugees. I work in the community garden. I am a gardener.

I am a SquareDanceCaller

I write songs

PHILOSOPHY

I have no race prejudice of any kind. My kinfolks and my skin folks are dearly loved. My own circumference of every day life is there, but I see there same britches and vices everywhere I look. So I give you all my right hand of fellowship and love and hope for the same from you. In my eyesight you’ll lose nothing by not looking just like me. I will remember you all my goods thoughts and I ask you kindly to do the same for me. Not only just me, you who play the zig zag lightning of power over the world, with the grumbling thunder in you wake, think kindly of those who walk in the dust. And you who walk in humble places, think kindly too of others. There has been no proof in the world so far that you would be less arrogant if you held the lever of power in your hands. Let us all be kissing friends. Consider that with tolerance and patience we godly demons may breed a noble world in a few hundred generations or so. Maybe all of us who do not have the good fortune to meet or meet again in this world will meet at a barbeque.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm open to hosting folks that want to visit Louisville. Some parts of the year, I might have a couch for someone to stay. All of the time, I am free to show everyone the wonders of Louisville or take day trips in Kentucky.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I stayed with and traveled with many people in Israel and Jamaica whom I met on couch surfing. I never had a bad experience with anyone. Some have visited me, I have never had a bad experience

Interests

I'm interested in the way people relate.
Mighty Sparrow
Parrots
Social Dance Politics
Nina Simone
wendell berry
local agriculture
The Velvet Underground
folk music
george jones
Watermelons
miriam makeba
Street musicians
Music that springs forth from entire communities and not only one persons voice
Rivers
Bicycles
Cheese
Zora Neale Hurston
coconut juice
philip larkin
dry stack stone walls
horse racing
long gazes

• mardi gras
• dancing
• dining
• cheese
• bbq
• gardening
• politics
• music
• country music
• folk music
• surfing
• horse racing
• agriculture
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Paris, Texas
Zora Neale Hurston
Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg
Revolution for the Hell of It by Abbie Hoffman
Jonathan Richman
The Velvet Underground
The nights of Cabiria
the wild bunch
All Woody Allen Films, even the bad ones
Nina Simone
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
Early recordings of Bob Dylan in small hotel rooms
Appalachian music
we're leaving by zachary treitz
philip larkin
bill cunninghams new york

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I canoed down the Zambezi river
Teaching children to appreciate where their food comes from
Sharing american folk and country music to Israelis
walked the israeli national trail with a donkey
pruned olive trees in judenn hills
I bathed in the hot springs in Bath, Jamaica
I've been in love thrice.
I stood on top of empty skyscrapers in detroit
I paraded on mardi gras through an ice storm and shed a curse

Teach, Learn, Share

Some songs of Kentucky.

Countries I’ve Visited

Greece, Jamaica, Tanzania, United States, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, United States

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