Why I’m on Couchsurfing

hey y'all, i'm new around these parts, my partner Marisa and i are on a budget, we're driving from Vallejo to El Paso to visit my sister in her midwifery program, and then to Chicago to visit Marisa's family for the holidays. We love people, love alternatives to the violences of capitalism, love people coming together to support each other and connect in unique circumstances,and we need to spend as little money as possible on this trip, so couch surfing feeds many needs.

Interests

I'm most interested in delicious things. For me the liberated spirit is most delicious. I'm learning to savor the process as equally so.

Also, Honesty in it's deepest most comprehensive forms, music, food that's healthy for the earth, it's growers, and it's consumers, sweet tender fierce friends, raw nature, dancing, adventure, cuddling, and coziness are all things that immediately jump out of me as very interesting delicious things for me.

• culture
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• magic
• music
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Right now i'm diggin' Kendrick Lamar, Mali music, ZZK Records from argentina, myself ;), Nahko Bear, and any healing song from indigenous people's around the world.

Humano. The Harry Potters. X. Dope. Fantastic Mr. Fox. Alamar. etc...

Between the world and me. Of Water and the Spirit. Secrets of the Talking Jaguar. The Dao of Pooh. The Aleph. A Brief History of Time. Everybody needs a rock.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spent the last 7 years meditating with incarcerated youth a few times a week. We found such profound inner freedom, resilience, compassion, magic, tenderness, and brutal honesty in there.

By the end of my time in there we were holding 3 hour sessions with entire units, control officer's included, and we had changed much of the top down culture of violence to a culture of communication, connection, magic, and co-evolution.

I left with family, from the staff to the young men, and with a new sense of possibility for the places most detrimentally effected by the systemic violences of the civilized world.

Teach, Learn, Share

hmmnnn,,,

i love to...

What I Can Share with Hosts

great conversation, sweet smiles, good music, cleanliness and utter respect, magical serendipity (i bet), good cooking, genuine kinship, and so much more...

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States