CURRENT MISSION

I try not to engage in action for the fruits of action. But, I am constantly engaged in the manifestation swirl that is Evening Star Farm, which is located outside of Viroqua, WI, and which aims to provide a setting for humans experimenting with living more deeply into understanding, speaking, and living truth. We aim to create a state-free space, a beacon of love in times of increasing uncertainty, a web of interdependence, a sanctuary of inquiry and mediation, a support-station for peace warriors and a monastery free of all dogma. We are a year in, and right now it looks pretty much like some farm animals, land projects and playful kids and adults.

ABOUT ME

I live with two adults and five children and a bunch of animals

PHILOSOPHY

I think that all forms of judgment and expectation lead to suffering. I think ethical truth correlates with beauty

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We surfed a few times back before Walter was born. Want to repay the system by offering our couch.

Interests

Folk music, hiking, camping, philosophy, home brewing, mysticism, bigfoot, natural parenting, natural livestock raising, wild edibles, yurts, gardening, blues, cooking

• perfumes
• cooking
• gardening
• homesteading
• music
• folk music
• blues
• hiking
• camping

Music, Movies, and Books

Mark Twain, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Dostoyevsky, Walt Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau, Nietzsche, Hermann Melville, Idries Shah, William Blake, Jack London, Hemingway, Plato, the Gospels, Heraclitus, the Bhagavad Gita, Guy DuBord, Rousseau

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitched a ride out of Fargo, SD from the self-proclaimed heaviest man ever to walk!

Teach, Learn, Share

Compost toilets

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food, accommodation, conversation

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Turkey, United States