I am free spirit. I live simply and simply love to live. My favorite places are growing naturally and offer niches to vast diversity.

I take care of children by day. Rally, organize, and participate in creative projects by night. I'm a practicing poet, love to gather folks to share their creative talents, and help with a weekly broadcast on our local college radio station: KBGA - Missoula. You can find our Outer Limits Radio Show uploads here: https://www.mixcloud.com/outerlimitsradioshow/.

I am a member of Women's International League of Peace and Freedom (WILPF), on the board of Community Action for Justice in the Americas, Asia, and Africa (CAJA3), and I am an active member of 350-Missoula, Blue Skies, Montana Human Rights Network, Montana Women Vote, Idle No More, and Protect the Sacred. I live my life to promote Peaceful progression- internal and external, Social/Environmental Rights & Justice, and the preservation of Cultural/Environmental Protection.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I live very simply and frugally, I am poor in money and rich in spirit, friends, insight, and immaterial offerings.

I would love to meet people in the places I travel, to know a place you must know the people that imbibe it with their memories, their hands, feet and dreams.

Interests

All things creative! Poetry, Art, Dance, Music... And the palette of flavors, the culinary art of taste!

All activity that listens to, breathes with, and explores nature!

Life-long Learning! Especially history, science, cultural anthropology...

• arts
• poetry
• dancing
• human rights
• cooking
• running
• flowers
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• drums
• anthropology
• history
• science

Teach, Learn, Share

Thoughts flow viscose like the spring thaw forgot them
Are the plum blossoms nearly past while ideation dwells in hibernation?
Muscles move awkward without true presence of mind
The work of these limbs, grasping for anything to find

Something to wedge
Something to lever
Something to weight

Moving muscles from memory
To hoist the cover stone from winter’s entry
With a chilly breeze from dank depths,
Footsteps follow a descent into darkness

Light creeps carefully behind
Peeking through strands of hair
Where it’s safely entwined
Observing this mysterious lair

Vocal sounds echo sonar cantatas
Trying to captivate imagination’s desiderata
Soil crustaceans flee as the sounds
Vibrate their being so close with the ground

Toes touching twigs
Fingers finding feathers, fur
Sour smells smothered

Lifting layers from the nested
With patience not to startle awake
Coordination greatly tested
As excitement builds to see unity create

Oh mind, your slumber must be over
It’s time to join me in the outer world
Look the spring flowers are calling
The rains have come to quench
Intellect, famished and thirsty
The waters run to regenerate
Its integral electricity
Come back to be with body
The heart that drums your song.

-written May 16th 2014

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am and excellent house guest!
I will help with chores, love to cook and be helpful.
I have a good attitude, a kind nature, and a great deal of creative and global insight.

Countries I’ve Visited

Kenya, Mexico, Peru

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States