CURRENT MISSION

Following my heart

ABOUT ME

I love a quality beer, whiskey, as much live music as you throw at me, an honest conversation, listening ears, jam sessions, criticizing systems and how we participate in said systems, fresh figs off the tree, cooking yummy vegan meals, skills shares, massage, playing with animals and loving them, laughing games, yoga, dancing, oceans and mountains (preferably at the same time), skiing, floating through the air after launching off of a big rocky ledge into a pile of fluffy snow, pushing buttons...

I do not like apathy, carelessness, hopelessness, capitalism, criticism without action, racism, classism, anthrocentrism, sexism, violence, colonization of any kind. This list is less important, let's make some good times together.

I currently live in the SF Bay Area - quit my job bartending and serving in the Mission District and now am about to embark as a farm hand in Healsburg, CA - looking to peek into the farm-to-table scene, food politics, off-grid living, and craft beer!

PHILOSOPHY

Constantly connecting with others and the worlds within and outside my own world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

spreading the word, surfing, hosting

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Roadtripping through New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Ohio, Wisconsin, Idaho, Wyoming, NOLA, Europe...

Hosting in Worcester, MA and Berkeley Cali!

Interests

Travel, music, anthropology, poetry/spoken word, skiing, activism, writing, buddhism, vegan lifestyle, pro-choice, zapatismo, ethnography, the beat generation, bare feet, live music, long car rides, revolutions, buddhism/daoisim, breathing, capoeira, shaved heads, ex-yugoslavia, croatian, hiking, biking, microbrews, self created religious experiences, massage, dancing, peeing outside.

• animals
• writing
• poetry
• dancing
• capoeira
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• vegan
• yoga
• politics
• traveling
• music
• live music
• spoken word
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• skiing
• buddhist
• swimming
• anthropology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest, My Cousin Vinny, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Avatar, Super Troopers, The Constant Gardener, Coming to America, National Lampoon Vacation.

Music (At least at this moment): Galactic, Gorillaz vs. Spacemonkeyz, RJD2, Adem, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Buena Vista Social Club, Afro-Cuban All Stars, Martin Sexton, Ben Harper, Eva Cassidy, Black Star, Michael Franti and Spearhead, The New Mastersounds, Toots and the Maytals, Dave Matthews Band, Medeski Martin and Wood, CSNY, Neil Young, and...so on.

Books: Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire; Power Politics, Roy; Rules for Radicals, Alinksy; Ishmael, Quinn; One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez; The Red Tent, Diamont; The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver; and poetry by Neruda, EE cummings, Ginsberg, Mary Oliver, Kahlil Gibran...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I touched the bed Tito slept in while growing up.
Swimming naked in the Adriatic.
Meeting one of the founding members of the feminist movement in Croatia.
true kindness in the Czech Republic.

just for now that is.

Teach, Learn, Share

"Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!"

Footnote to Howl, Ginsberg

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Croatia, United States

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