CURRENT MISSION

help things grow

ABOUT ME

Quiet curious observant

PHILOSOPHY

I am not passionate about concrete walls and highway overpasses, cars and billboards, factories and plastic landfills. I am not passionate about the drive into Vancouver through the sprawling Fraser Valley. I am not passionate about gridlock and exhaust and cars. I am not passionate about shopping malls. I am not passionate about security guards or cigarettes. I am not passionate about plastic bags or tin cans stranded in puddles. I am not passionate about rainbow oil slicks. I am not passionate about perfume. I am not passionate about vending machines. I am not passionate about florescent lights or pink insulation or vinyl siding.
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I am passionate and alive even here where the heat ripples up off the asphalt. Blood pumping, breath cycling. I am passionate about breath and blood. The way trees breathe and bleed. Pitch on my fingers that won't rub off. Fire by the side of the lake. No clothes. Swimming. Sun not yet set. Riding my bike home. Going barefoot. Digging potatoes. Watching seeds grow. Discovering plants in unexpected places. Even in the cracks of the sidewalk. Even in the back of a pickup. Even in the mall parking lot. Even here.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted a few people and I have been welcomed into many strangers' homes while traveling.

Interests

Living, growing food, garden experiments, learning food preservation techniques, snowshoeing, skiing, riding my bike, swimming in the lake, dancing, hiking, building puppets, making fires, going on adventures, spinning wool, meditation.

• perfumes
• dancing
• education
• dining
• meditation
• gardening
• shopping
• clothing
• traveling
• cars
• cycling
• hiking
• skiing
• snowshoeing
• swimming
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

MemoirsNonfiction (education, agriculture, culture)Quirky fictionThe Sun magazine!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Critical mass bike ride over Confederation Bridge linking Nova Scotia and PEI
Watching a garden progress through the seasons

Teach, Learn, Share

I am excited and curious about experiential/noncoercive forms of education.

A friend and I are about to embark on a cycle trip from Vienna to Athens.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada