CURRENT MISSION

Happiness!

ABOUT ME

I grew up in the desert wasteland of Phoenix, Arizona and have found many routes of escape since. I have lived all over the Northwest, travelled large swaths of the world, run for State Representative, started housing collectives, been arrested for political reasons, biked super long inspring distances and am more and more interested in laughing out loud, taking immaculate care of my body, and loving my life and the things within it.

PHILOSOPHY

Love what is

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

When I have a couch I offer it up. I try to live an ethic of welcome and love to all.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Great!!!

Interests

Healing arts, music, basketball, spending as much time outside or in nature as possible, yoga, farming, swimming in the ocean, herbalism, learning, expanding my consciousness, travelling, writing poetry, Byron Katie, Martin Prechtel, Mary Oliver, ecstatic poetry(Rumi, Hafiz, my own)

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• yoga
• running
• traveling
• music
• basketball
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Mary Oliver, Rumi, Hafiz, Mamuse, Qiwalli, Zimbabwe music, world music

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw a little girl(who i had visited days before) exuberantly smile with me in the midst of a chaotic funeral scene in Palestine. The brother of the murdered was screaming and crying on the street and the general mood was somber, and I looked up and I'll never forget her shiny teeth, her brief remorse as she looked at the screaming man, and then the smile that returned to her face. I have seen endless fields of lavender surround ancient castles in southern france as i biked down their curvy borders. I have seen "ordinary" people remember and act on the fact they can change their lives.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Guatemala, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, Palestine, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guatemala, Peru, United States

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