CURRENT MISSION

re-enchanting language

ABOUT ME

Femme-Bro

PHILOSOPHY

Build, Block, Be

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Traveling and meeting people

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed a bit in the US, England, Sweden, and Norway and hosted a bit in a previous house in Portland

Interests

Currently diving into herbal medicine school, new moon embodied language exploration as performance art, astrology art and zine making, and ancestral folk traditions

• hiking
• swimming
• rivers
• mountains
• biking
• stories
• herbalism
• archetypes
• contact improv
• clowning
• fusion dancing
• decolonizing
• west coast bass
• anti-waste
• pagan folk singing
• trad american and british isles folk singing
• daily ritual
• collective ritual

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies. Frieda. Blood Diamond. Como Agua Para Chocolate. Lord of the Rings. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Pride and Prejudice. The Sound of Music. Once Were Warriors. Beasts of the Southern WILD!

Music. Larkin Grimm. Los Mirlos. Shakey Graves. Ana Tijioux. Fever Ray, Beirut, Los Jaivas, the Brothers Comatose, Yann Tierson, Mischeif Brew, M.I.A., Chopin, Debussey, Buena Vista Social Club, Horacio Banegas, shape-note, Scottish and Irish folk, Nordic folk esp. drums, and cante, the roots of flamenco in Andalusia both a result of traveling to those regions.... always changing I love exchanging music!

Books. Ceremony. Wheel of Time. Temple of my Familiar. Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath. On Beauty. Mink River. Parable of the Talents. Catch 22. Invisible Cities. Cry, Beloved Country.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being charged by a 10-point Roosevelt Elk while backpacking this January in the Lost Coast, California (survived unscathed;)

Flamenco, Sevilla

Saami dance

Teach, Learn, Share

Learn. any cultural practice or artifact new or old

Teach. Swimming.

Share. Dancing. Cooking. Singing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cook Islands, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Haiti, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Panama, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, United States

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