CURRENT MISSION

To seek out beautiful places, wonderful people, and expand my world

ABOUT ME

My best friends would say that I am easily excited, that I care a lot and that I have a good laugh. I can talk about anything. From serious, multi-hour conversations to cracking jokes over drinks, I'm up for all of it. I like my up and down time and prefer a healthy mix of both. I value balance and health but am always ready to throw both to the wind for a great time. My preferred pace is walking because it gives me the time to take it all in, share a great conversation and climb a fence in order to get closer to something beautiful. I love spontaneity but there isn't enough of it in my life. I'm a big nester and love having a home but I think this is the time in my life that I need to play and explore so I'm setting out.

PHILOSOPHY

The more I live the more I see the world in shades of grey. Though I stand behind my convictions, I am hesitant to deny others their own convictions. I strive for understanding and peace, for compromise and shared language.

Interessen

I spend a lot of time thinking about living in community and different ways to relate to folks. I care a lot about taking care of people, being a good listener/friend and valuing relationships above most everything else. I am also interested in wider issues of social justice and food security. On a more self-indulgent level, I am really into homestead crafts, like making cheese, canning food and spinning wool. I also love to dance (blues in particular). Otherwise, I love to eat and cook, read/write poetry, take walks and lay in the sun.

• poetry
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• cheese
• walking
• drinking
• crafts
• homesteading
• blues
• camping
• history
• mountains

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Fiction Authors and Poets:
Richard Brautigan, Raymond Carver, Alice Munro's short stories, Barbara Kingsolver, William Carlos Williams, Mary Oliver, E.E. Cummings, Nikky Finney, Matthew Dickman, Maggie Nelson, Lorrie Moore.

Music: Give me a genre and I probably love something in it
Folk/Country - John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, OCMS, etc
First wave Ska - Toots and the Maytols,
70's punk - The Buzzcocks! The Dammed, etc
80's hardcore - Minor Threat, Negative Approach
Progressive hip hop - Dead Prez, Fugees, etc
Old Soul - Otis Redding, etc
Whatever Mum, Boards of Canada and Do Make Say Think are
Old Blues - Muddy Waters, Nina Simone, etc
Irish Music - Lunasa, The Pouges
Classical - Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, Shostakovich
Indie Pop - Andrew Bird, The Shins, Sufjan Stevens

The Books, The Clean, The Silver Jews, Yo La Tengo, etc
The list goes on and on

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

When I was 13, I hiked the extra mile from the meadow my family was staying in to the fire lookout on a peak in the Marble mountains (N.CA) and camped up there by myself. There aren't even really words to describe the sunset. I woke up in the middle of the night to the entire vaulted sky of stars. I could see the curvature of a the earth. I haven't had a camping experience like it since.

In my sophomore year of college, some friends and I drove into the Colombia River Gorge and hiked up to a waterfall in the middle of the night. It was really muddy but we hiked into this cave behind the waterfall and sang songs for hours.

Lehren, lernen, teilen

I can certainly teach English and a little French. I am a good cook. I can teach you the basics of Blues dancing. I can also teach you about the history of small self-published magazines in America and get you started making your own!

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Canada, Mexico

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

United States