CURRENT MISSION

Love, learn, share, live!

ABOUT ME

In a nutshell: Joyful, adventurous, excentric, curious, inspiring, complex, human.

"I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness."

I'll leave the personal details for when our paths cross.

PHILOSOPHY

"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dreams for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us tobe careful be realistic to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself.

If you can bear the accusation of betray a land not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon,"Yes."

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Cs meetings, City tours, hosting.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've attempted and organized several Couchsurfing events. Hosted wonderful surfers from all over the place. Made great and unique friends.

Interests

Photography, dance, music, theater, philosophy, literature, traveling, cuisine, culture, art, arts & crafts, nature, environmental issues, social causes, meditation, yoga, bicycles.

• arts
• culture
• literature
• theater
• photography
• beauty
• dancing
• human rights
• yoga
• meditation
• crafts
• politics
• traveling
• music
• tours

Music, Movies, and Books

Odisseia, Os Maias, 1984, As Brumas de Avalon, Macbeth, Admiravel Mundo Novo, Aristoteles, Plato, Jose Saramago, The Little Prince.

Pocahontas, Amelie Poulain (French movies freak), Into the wild, The wizard of oz, Pride & Prejudice, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Ice age, Breakfast at Tiffany's, rear window, American Beauty, Alice in wonderland, Peter Pan, Robbin Woods, La vita e Bella, Annie Hall and all source of documentaries

The Beatles, Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Eddie Grant, Nina Simone, Amy Holland, Louis Amstrong,Ella Fitzgerald, Buena Vista social club, First Aid Kit, Maia Vidal, Young the Giant, Noah and the wale, Beirut, Yaan Tiersen, The naked & famous, Pixies, RadioHead, Lykke Li, The National, Cat Empire, First aid Kit, Maia Vidal, Gogol Bordello, The tallest man on earth, Simon & Garfunkel, Of Monsters and Men, David Bowie, Belle & Sebastian, Kings of Convenience, Buena Vista Social Club, The Decemberists, Ellie Goulding, Mumfords and Sons, The XX,MGMT, Foster the people, The killers, The kooks, Guns n Roses, Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Queen, Whitesnake, and so on!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Quite a few.

Teach, Learn, Share

I believe that every person has something to learn and teach. Life is about sharing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Netherlands, Portugal

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