Lover of nature and life, the cosmic and poetic. I live a very clean, conscious lifestyle. I spend my time in the arts and the spirit world, dream-work and learning the ancient ways of being. I strive to be authentic. I love going deep, shadow work, then emerging into light. I have spent my life identifying as an intellectual but am now learning to live in my heart.

I'm very interested lately in adoption and diaspora. I am teaching myself Korean and will be embarking on a trip to Korea soon. And I am starting am MFA program for creative writing. Great literature, arthouse cinema, philosophy, and the sacred path are my life.

Currently scribbling a memoir. Healing my mind, body, and soul. Serving others. Learning taiqi. Dieting plants. Connecting with writing, Korean adoptee, queer, and plant spirit communities.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm visiting Korea to find my birth family and to connect with the culture and land of my birth.

Interests

• writing
• literature
• philosophy
• cinema
• queer
• ayahuasca
• tai chi
• creative writing

Music, Movies, and Books

memoirs, energy healing/spiritual books, good literature; currently learning about dream yoga and native american medicine men. Donna Tartt, James Baldwin, and Paul Murray to name a few authors. Fitzgerald, Nietzsche, and Rumi to name a few more. Argonauts.

smart, funny movies, old classics, foreign films. In the Mood for Love, Roman Holiday, A Place in the Sun, the Handmaiden. I am currently all up in Korean cinema after having done my time in Indy, Chinese, French, German, and classic film. Park Chan-Wook and Wong Kar Wai are my spirit animals.

Golden girls, Broad City, Strangers with Candy. Deutschland 83. I also like dramas. Mad Men was great. Anthony Bourdain, stand up specials (Maria Bamford, Eddie izzard, Rory Scovel). Oh, and drag race. Yas henneys.

80s, lakota ceremonial songs, oldies, big band, old school hip hop, classical (Debussy, Bach, Chopin), Cure, Smiths, Pixies, and some dance. More recently I've been listening to Chinese folk music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've begun healing my incurable disease.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love learning period. i fall somewhere between academia and artistry.

What I Can Share with Hosts

i can teach a lot about healing on many levels and talk philosophy, history, prehistory, cinema, literature, and super random stuff.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Germany, Mexico