CURRENT MISSION

Rise.

ABOUT ME

I'm open and curious, I'm in love with world and with all emanations of life. I try to practice all knowledge I get and I try to be fair with what I know about me and everything that surrounds me. I feel connected to the planet and I know that every our move and decision have huge impact on the whole ecosystem or in other words - reality. We are all one, so how could I possibly say all about me?

I have some lifelong-loves - my dog, my friends, the most incredible miracles I've found, mountains and spruce forests, especially in the wintertime, Portugal, with its heart, Lisbon, Canadian interior and the West Coast, I miss them all, all the time.

You can find some of the projects I engaged with on the internet
https://www.facebook.com/talesofthewoods/?fref=ts - my woodworking businesses
https://www.facebook.com/otwarcienarosje -the fanpage from my last crowdfunding project, a voluntary work in Siberia and a trip to Altai mountains
https://www.facebook.com/groups/544921452358220/?fref=ts - Wawelska Food Coop - try to get there if you're in Cracow, only good people and the best food to be found in this country.
my blog http://strumienzdumien.blogspot.com that I write very irregularly. It's all in polish though.

PHILOSOPHY

Holistic. I seek and explore ideas and solutions for so called 'better life' for everyone and everything. I change my mind and I'm not afraid of that. I want to do my best in a given time. I believe in fundamental values which are common for all the species. Still looking for them, but I guess I'm on the right track.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Long and diverse. I've couched and hosted (more). Only good experiences, some of them awesome, some I guess life-changing.

Interests

I'm interested, in general.

Once upon a time I was really into my studies, focused on linguistics, philologies, antrophology and literature. In those vast fields it was the literature of XIXth century (romantism) and portuguese culture that I loved so much, that they drove me crazy and out of the university. It also came up out of the researches on language in anthropological and philosophical perspective - there wasn't just too much sense anymore to keep talking so much (cognitive scince, performatics, ethnolinguistics). Still, I'm generally interested in words, especially I like to disgrace them.
And I keep reading, obviously, there is so many books out there, somebody has to read them! And I stick to the humanism, but for me this is not a way of selfish thinking about human kind, sophisticated haze of symbols opposed to the science, but the constant effort to discover our role and duties while on our planet and as a part of the universe.
I couldn't find any universe (or at least universalism) on the university. I keep studying though, there is a lot of good big brains around that bring light into the western darkness.

Anyways, I love cooking (vegan preferably, but not radically) and do it a lot. And do it good. I've run a "pay what you want" one-day-restaurant, for much longer than one day actually. It was gorgeous, a great experience, but good enough to abandon the idea of starting a regular legal food business.

I love working with earth, or I mean I love to spend time with the Earth. Going for a long walks with my dog through the woods with all my senses sharpened and focused, and all my attention dedicated to her, to what she's going to tell me this time. But putting my hands into soil, planting veggies, weeding, building raised beds - that's pretty fun too, almost like eating or just as much, well, it usually comes together. And so with foraging mushrooms, wild berries, herbs, roots and all kinds of foods waiting out there to be devoured.
I'm a co-founder and activist in the food-cooperative in Krakow, searching for the way to integrate people around important questions and to create a strong, responsible and aware local community. We're doing pretty good now, as an illegal (non-formal) oragnization with nearly 200 members and weekly orders from up to 30 sources. Nobody earns money here but the farmer.

So farming is interesting. Shepherding is interesting. Everything is so freaking interesting. How can you possibly actually do anything of that? :D If thinking and writing about it takes all the given time.

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Well, time passes by and I'm just adding stuff to this cs description every year or two years. There is never a shortage of things to be interested with and to actually try them out.
So for last two years I'm working with wood. I worked for a log building company in BC Canada for nearly a year. Then I worked on a 100y old log hut that I inhabited too, playing a cowboy in the meantime, working with cattle and riding my horse over the mountains. Yeah, shepherding is definitely cool.
But moneywise, at least for the start, carpentry is a better choice. So I've stuck to it. I'm trying to do any kind of woodwork, I like carving the most, and woodburning, and chopping the firewood, hell yeah. But i like building shit too, all kinds of shit :)

I play guitar and sing once in a while, preferably on the summer streets of strange cities. Or jamming on the high note with a group of people. I just LOVE these improvisations with drums, strings, flutes and aaaaall kinds of voices.
Oh, I love people.

And as to main directions, I walk the path of Dhamma. May all being be happy.

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Again, some 5 years later, I'm still here and always the same but different.
I have 8 years experience in building wood constructions and I teach carpentry to beginners. I live in a remote farm in polish Izery mountains, help my girlfriend and her family to run a guesthouse. But still building things, playing music, planting veggies and going into the woods daily.
Short update, more to come live 🙃

• animals
• culture
• books
• literature
• singing
• dining
• cooking
• vegan
• meditation
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• woodworking
• music
• guitar
• buddhist
• earth science
• ecology
• mountains
• wood
• carpentry
• woods

Music, Movies, and Books

Yes, Movies, Music, Books. Lots.

I like movies but none comes up to my mind as especially good or one especially important to me. Well, maybe "Planetary" is the one worth a recommendation. Surely there is more, but if I would have to pick one, it would be this one.

Music. Lots, lots, lots. Immortal is (for a long time now) Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes and Fleet Foxes. And after there are these hunderds of gigabytes. And even more silence. Or good psytrance, always ready to dance.

Books, lots there is, around 12 hundred stored on one attic far from here. Ken Wilber is the first, but this only where it starts. It's good to know the beginning though, right?

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

As with books, movies, music - I cannot make a simple choice. Everything is important, everything counts. And every single day is amazing. When I look carefully or mindfully enough, every day is the best day of my life. I do my best to make it a rule.

But let's say this, I have built a mobile sauna and I was traveling with it for 3 years across Poland, heating people up to 110°Celsius and making them extremely happy this way 😇

Teach, Learn, Share

Let's play some music, let's build some shit, let's dig the soil, let's dance and laugh and talk. There is no other way here, anyways.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain

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