CURRENT MISSION

To live with rhythm and grace, to learn of light and of love, and to spread peace and laughter.

ABOUT ME

Well, I like to think that I am changing constantly.
However...
I like surfing, and writing, and of course traveling. New experiences, places and people. Hopefully one day I will weave these passions into a sustainable style of life.

PHILOSOPHY

When you ask this question of a philosopher...

My personal philosophy is to learn. I believe there is always something new to discover along our path. We get distracted, our eyes on the end goal - whether its our rushed feeling to finish school, land a job, buy a house or car, or our desperate feeling to KNOW already instead of lingering in the learning process, it seems we're all in this roadrunner-on-a-treadmill state, going nowhere.
I stepped off a while ago (sometimes I find myself back on, sadly). There´s something more to life than the one my American culture raised me in.
I travel to try and discover what it is.
Some things I think about:
Interconnectedness between not just all humans, not just all life, but the entirety of existence. And essentially, at the fundamental level of matter, this is true.
Suffering comes through a sense of an ego. We have built this feeling of ¨I¨ around us, from our name to our style. Phrases like ¨how I was raised¨ and ¨the way I am¨ trap us into unchangeable ways of thinking. I believe we all have the power to change, in any moment.
Our own beauty, our own power, capability, strength, importance. Too often governments and religions tell us we are sinful, or weak, or imperfect in some way. I believe we have the ability to become Buddhas, or Christs, or more.
Aqui mismo, ahora mismo... all that exists is the present moment. Only this moment is life.

I believe I will learn more.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've hosted surfers at my sweet beach house in Virginia Beach, and I've surfed many a couch up and down the California coastline.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Excellent so far!

Interests

Surfing, traveling, writing, reading, philosophy, photography, astronomy, quantum physics, music, guitar, Buddhism, meditation, snowboarding, skateboarding, lucid dreams, dancing, drawing, painting, the environment, climbing trees, growing plants, Hado water crystals, origins of life, laughter, unconditional love, words, wind, hurricanes, clouds, rain, theories of the universe, tea, hemp, relative time, indigenous cultures, cooking, silence...
Others. I´m interested in people. Everyone has a story.

• culture
• writing
• photography
• beauty
• dancing
• environment
• cooking
• breakfast
• vegan
• meditation
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• surfing
• snowboarding
• skateboarding
• buddhist
• rock climbing
• astronomy
• philosophy
• physics
• religion
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Little Prince, Wind Sand and Stars, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Quantum and the Lotus, Tao te Ching, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, The Giver, Walden, anything by Thich Nhat Hanh, Tailchaser's Song, His Dark Materials, I Am a Strange Loop, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Slaughterhouse Five, God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian, The Art of Happiness, The Alchemist, Fahrenheit 451, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, A Song of Ice and Fire,

Music: Sublime, The Beatles, Bob Marley, The Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Robert Johnson, Pretty Lights, Keller Williams, Los Piojos, Dirty Heads, Thievery Coorporation, STS9, The Allman Brothers Band, Jimi Hendrix, Coldplay, Silvio Rodriguez, Beirut, Modest Mouse, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Gondwana, Railroad Earth, A String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band, OAR, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Wynonie Harris, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Devil Makes Three, The Avett Brothers,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Walking meditation around an entire pagoda for a couple hours or so with monks in central Vietnam, then joining them for a ritual (and vegan) breakfast/lunch, all in celebration of the Buddha's birthday.

Teach, Learn, Share

Say this to the sun at your next sunrise:

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
~Kalidasa

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, United States

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