CURRENT MISSION

beeing

PHILOSOPHY

Constant awe and wonder.

Also, she sums it up better than I could ever put it:
"My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect."
- Ellen Willis

Perché sono iscritto su Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

support the idea of hosting ... and would now like to start actually doing so!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Very little! Unfortunately.

Interessi

Bicycle-riding, tea-drinking, yoganating (bending mind/body), walks and general wandering, gastro-philanthropy (as a beneficiary, mostly),

• philanthropy
• drinking
• reading
• guitar
• cycling

Musica, film e libri

Anything by Maya Angelou, Ursula Le Guin; We The Animals by Justin Torres; Toer's Buru Quartet, on Indonesia; How to Be Good by Hornby; anything on China by Peter Hessler or Jonathan Watts; too much non-fiction on environment

Una cosa incredibile che ho fatto

hitch-hiked across eastern Australia, worked at an organic farm in Thailand, hiked many bits of the wild great wall, went down-hill mtn biking at Whistler (and northern Thailand and...), fell in love, ya!

Insegna, impara, condividi

i spend most of my time reading about and interpreting modern Chinese society and social policy. Would be very happy to tell you everything I know about this place, esp in exchange for guitar, ukulele or French lessons!