CURRENT MISSION

Mission...? To live!

ABOUT ME

Life´s quite an experience. Things may suddenly change, and they actually do all the time! Being aware of the unpredictable tides helps hiking up to the summit, and dropping the best waves. Pardon me but I must quote:
"I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is."

PHILOSOPHY

To be part of Nature and live in the wilderness. Again, I must quote:

Love after love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Sharing the most with people who are willing to share as well.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Kindness and hospitality - that´s what I fortunately had, and what I´m willing to keep running: Love.

Interests

Books, films, hiking and trekking, bodysurfing, travelling, swimming, people

• books
• coloring
• wine
• running
• movies
• traveling
• hiking
• swimming
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

I love rock'n'roll, jazz, reggae, classical... My favourite singers and bands - I've seen most of them live! - are: Velvet Underground (and Lou Reed of course); David Bowie, Echo and the Bunnymen; The Jesus and Mary Chain; The Cure; The Smiths; Rod Stewart; Sex Pistols; The Clash; Iggy Pop; The Rolling Stones; Pink Floyd; Pixies; The Ramones; Belle and Sebastian; Nina Simone; Sarah Vaughn; Ron Carter; Miles Davies; Charlie Parker; Bach; Beethoven; Chopin; Schubert; Desmond Dekker; Peter Tosh; Bob Marley...
I'm addicted to cinema. Some of the best films I've ever seen: Twelve angry men (and all Sidney Lumet's); Magnolia; Le souffle au coeur (and all Louis Malle's); Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind; It's a wonderful life; The thin red line; Le scaphandre et le papillon... And a few I'm sure you've never heard of: Choking man; Se nada mais der certo; Gigante; Anglagard. And other directors I love: Roman Polanski; François Truffaut; Stanley Kubrick; Atom Egoyan; Denis Arcand; David Cronenberg; Sergio Leone; Krzysztof Kieslowski... I'm so sorry I'll forget many...
I'm also addicted to reading: The unbearable lightness of being; Catch 22; Fear and loathing in Las Vegas; Jonathan Livingstone Seagul ; Alice's adventures in Wonderland; The time traveler's wife; A montanha da água lilás. And authors such as: Jack London; Edgard Alan Poe; Carlos Drummond de Andrade; Cecilia Meireles; Pablo Neruda; Jorge Luis Borges; Nietzsche; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry David Thoreau...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Having taken 2 months for trekking all around Ilha Grande; and, ultimately, having been travelling throughout South America for over 2 years...

Teach, Learn, Share

There are languages which have the same verb for both teaching and learning - and that´s what I believe it´s the most accurate description of reality: teaching is learning; learning is teaching - so simple, so true.

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