CURRENT MISSION

beherenow.

ABOUT ME

i am a tiny part of something amazing (and so are you).

PHILOSOPHY

every moment is a choice and your life is the sum of those choices. you have chosen where you are.

or

how you do anything is how you do everything

or

freedom is not doing what you want

or

to have what you have not, you must do what you do not

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

surf a little, host a little. well, generally i host, a little...but still, i surf. a little.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Everyone is beautiful. Mostly.

Interests

music. cemetaries. mexican food. meditation. motorcycles. single malts. experience. philosophers. poets. mystics. madmen. chess. travel. other possibilities. alternate realities. your point of view. love. the part of our minds we hide from ourselves. high quality anything. your fears. my fears. facing fear. tiny revolutions. vino tinto. violins. getting lost. walking alone at night. health freaks. neat freaks. religious freaks. freaks in general. the secrets we keep. blue cheese. bicycles. baking bread. breaking bread. people watching. old dictionaries. railway stations. hand written letters. yoga. abandoned wells. secret spots. small clearings in dense forests. dreams. camp fires. ethics. europe. mind. intent. why are the bees dying? whoah......

• ethics
• dining
• wine
• cheese
• baking
• mexican food
• yoga
• meditation
• walking
• motorcycles
• chess
• traveling
• music
• violin
• camping
• fencing

Music, Movies, and Books

bulgakov, pablo neruda, henry miller, the upanishads, brothers karamazov, krishnamurti, mcsweenys, milo manara..... kung-fu movies, plan 9 from outer space, goddard, joan of arc, baraka, il postino, anything not so hollywood..... leonard cohen, l. subramnium, john digweed, brahms, godspeed you black emperor!, mulatu astatke, ratatat, beethovens late string quartets, radiohead, radiolab, everyone loves kraftwerk, right?....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

blessed my lips on a holy fountain of wine.

Teach, Learn, Share

how to enjoy awkward silence.

wanna make a violin?

would love to learn to speak proper spanish or how to tame unicorns, play the cello, hypnosis could be useful, or maybe fencing...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bahrain, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Laos, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, South Korea, United States