CURRENT MISSION

be helpful and compassionate to all sentient beings

ABOUT ME

grew up in los angeles but left for greener pastures soon after. now i hang out with the four-legged creatures in the green pastures of vermont. started to travel while i was at university(BA-medieval literature and african/american studies)i have traveled around quite a bit in the usa before heading abroad-i only have michigan and alaska to go before i've seen all 50 states. much of that traveling was following the grateful dead-or were they following me-they just always seemed to be in whatever town i happened to be in. i enjoy studying languages, playing music, growing and cooking good food and whatever nature has to offer. i like to travel by bicycle or hitchhiking-but bus, train, plane or ship if necessary.

PHILOSOPHY

listen well and speak as the lorax

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

waking up to find out that we are the eyes of this long strange trip rising, climbing, falling to get to terrapin

Interests

playing music and listening to sound, street theatre, living things and dead languages(which never really die), sowing and reaping, reading, politics for the people, planet and other sentient creatures (NATURE BATS LAST!)

• literature
• dining
• cooking
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• music
• rock climbing
• languages
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

movies-not a fan of hollywood and don't have a tv-but like a good movie. 'harold and maude', 'the princess bride', 'rabbit proof fence', 'monsoon wedding', 'waking ned divine', 'i heart huckabees', 'the isle', 'burnt by the sun' are some of my favorites-korean films are breathtaking and beyond the norm.
authors-peter mathiessen, leslie marmon silko, marge piercy, louis bernieres, haruki murakami, jorge luis borges (can he be considered a god?), kathy acker, john berger and Dharma, medieval literature and late 19th and early 20th century russian literature are some good examples of reading material
poets-adrienne rich, elizabeth bishop, yevgeny yevtushenko, mary oliver, louise gluck, sandra cisneros, rainer rilke, langston hughes, anna akhmatova, rumi, john donne, haiku and chinese buddhist poetry.
music-of course the grateful dead is my favorite band but also the boxing gandhis, michael franti and spearhead, moldy peaches, acoustic hot tuna, diamanda galas, mazzy star, nina simone, roots reggae-not the dub stuff, delta blues(mississippi john hurt, robert johnson, petey wheatstraw), koko taylor. i tend to like acoustic folk music(dar williams, indigo girls, robert earl keene jr. and richard shindell, Arlo and Woody) and bluegrass but really all types-jazz(miles davis, ron carter), classical(the real discordant stuff like stravinsky and bartok and of course paganini), north african and middle eastern music(habib koite and hamza el-din, anything from iran and turkey) the oud instrument has become an obsession of mine recently
art is not mentioned but mark rothko must be-also watercolour artists

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

trekking in the sahara desert was a life altering experience-also waking up every morning is always pretty special

Teach, Learn, Share

I am an ever evolving cook and gardener. I think that government isn't evil so much as just completely irrelevant to life. Create community and ditch the barbaric notion of being taken care of by some abstract force-thus to share and learn and help each other and all creatures.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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