ABOUT ME

MY interests are broad. I enjoy travel and a range of hobbies, in general they center around expanding my knowledge of what it means to live on this Earth, notably amidst intensifying industrialization, luxuriazation, etc., what keeps some enthusiastic, and many dispossessed, then how we can do it better together! This includes reading books, talking to folks from afar, working on gardens and in trees, walking streams and spending time in the mountains and woods, rolling in flowers and drinking the sweet wine of life, building wood and found material structures, leather work, plant medicine, perennial agriculture, music, and creating all the things we could want!

I enjoy spending time with opinioned people and hearing what experiences shaped them. Can talk all night or read in the quiet. I am open to most anything every once in awhile, enjoy wild ideas and also my health and clarity. Early mornings after a long night of dreams often.

Maybe Ill add more later on..

PHILOSOPHY
(Ahh, a remnant from my 24 year old CS profile..)
Let go of expectations or work to.. Impart any power available unto others and look for theirs, too. Humans make and create value and there fore it can all be shifted towards ideas more healthy, equal, and positive.
Took a long time to destroy so much natural beauty and cover it in concrete; we did not come from this. This world is such an amazing and wonderful place, we ought to do a little more than what we're paid to do

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted Surfers, Used warm showers, too, a couchsurfing for cyclists...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A few years of the occasional couch stay or visitor.

Interests

The woods, deserts, oceans, animals(especially birds) and plant identification, fermenting things, preserving others
, books, darkness is light poems, farming, working trails, primitive skills, travel, hand tools, wood work, valuable/useful equipment in all forms. A party with friends or potential friends or anyone. A good pot of black beans with sour cream and avocado.

• animals
• birds
• books
• poetry
• beauty
• partying
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• music
• teaching
• volunteering
• mountains
• leather work
• aboriculture

Music, Movies, and Books

books: Tropic of Cancer-Capricorn, Hondo, Origins reconsidered, Breakfast of champions, Monkey Wrench Gang, Dies the Fire, Steal this book, Brian's winter, The communist manifesto, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, A hitchhikers guide..., Down the River, War of the worlds, The wealth of nations, A sand county almanac, Skinny legs and all, The Descent, Still life with woodpecker, Henderson the Rain King, The years of salt and sand, Against civilization, The prophet, Siddartha, 1984, Call of the wild, Bendigo Shafter.
I have multiple opinions on Ayn Rand. Henry Miller.

Movies: The professionals, Rosemary's baby, Harold and Maude, The battle of Algiers, lots of 50s-60s flicks anchored in a philosophical concept.

No shows
Music: Good music
Food: Good food but am partial to Thai and pots of beans.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Fell Asleep in the bath tub on a cold night in the mountains of Idaho. I woke up with the window wide open, three inches of water on the ground and cold water filling the cold tub. ThatEv was amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

Arboriculture, Fruit tree pruning, grafting,
Spray Paint
Chess!
Wine Drinking and wandering
Farming/gardening/horticulture
Brain tanning and leather work
Philosophy banter talk
I like knots!
Environmental awareness conversations
Mid range carpentry
Landscaping/trail building
A solid odd jobber...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Everything I've got

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Nicaragua, Norway, Philippines, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Thailand