CURRENT MISSION

I keep telling people that I am a performance artist.... Living the Art of Living Well :). But Seriously, a huge part of that is connecting with new and interesting people who are grabbing life with both hands and wringing the nectar out of it!!

ABOUT ME

I struggle with describing myself, partly because I don't clearly see myself as others do and partly because I am constantly in flux. Today I am a touch positive, heart open, connection geek hellbent on awakening the memories we all have of our authentic selves.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have primarily stayed with Couchsurfers when visiting cities. It is the easiest way to get to know what it is ACTUALLY like to live in a city, not the scrubbed-clean-travel-brochure fantasy. When I have traveled Europe in the past, I have used the SERVAS system (similar to couch surfing). The stays we made with locals were always the highlight of the trip.

Many couch surfers have come to stay in my home and every meeting has been a lovely exchange and an opportunity for connection. I find that travelers are so much more open to new experience than people who have put down roots.

Interests

I love pleasure, abundance, lightness of being, easiness, connecting with people, gratitude, soulfulness, passion, delight, & living fearlessly and freely.

Within that context, I often find myself enjoying: sailing, contra dancing, massage, photography, fine woodworking, gardening, backpacking, trainhopping, meditation, spearfishing, ecstatic dance, contact improv, Esalen, SCUBA diving, campfires, foraging, cuddling, cooking (especially pastries), welding, hot springs, excellent food, the woods, music, reading, cycling, fiddling (unfortunately on the back burner), deep blue water, cycle touring, Burning Man, and walking in the wilderness on moonless nights.

• arts
• performing arts
• photography
• beauty
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• meditation
• walking
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• woodworking
• music
• cycling
• backpacking
• surfing
• scuba diving
• sailing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Stranger than Paradise, Amelie, Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso, Eraserhead, The Holy Grail, Delicatessen, Secret of Roan Inish, Babbette's Feast, The English Patient, Antonia's Line, Y Tu Mama Tambien,

Books: The Power of Now, The Tao of Pooh, Advice to a Young Wife from an Old Mistress, Tao Te Ching, Bluewater Hunting, A Pattern Language, A New Earth, The Teachings of Don Juan, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Times of Cholera, Where the Wild Things Are, Blue Truth, anything by David Deida

Music: Kate Rusby, Alasdair Fraser, Alison Krause, Natalie McMaster, Leahy, Becky Tracy, Altan, Howie MacDonald, Martin Hayes, Kate Wolf, Nanci Griffith, George Winston, William Ackerman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The place: Burning Man. The Scene: riding in the back of an art car in the morning dawn. In that moment, in the midst of craziness and completely alone, the entire world assembled itself into cosmic integrity. Pure beauty; no drugs required.

There is a place of pure beingness that is so divinely human and yet often so remote. I remember fondly being on the infinite grasslands of the Carizzo plain, in the arms of a lover, feeling the "Big Quiet" of the emptiness. In that moment, there was no struggle, no need, no desire. A man can do big things from that emptiness, and yet the impulse in that moment was to simply "be". Yum.

Teach, Learn, Share

The Art of Living Well, Sailing, TIG welding, contra dancing, truck driving, massage, photography, fine woodworking, gardening, distilling, backpacking, trainhopping, spearfishing, Ecstatic Dance, Contact Improv

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, Slovakia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, United States

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