CURRENT MISSION Help build a better world by connecting to those around me, discovering the ways in which we need each other and can love each other. ABOUT ME I'm 27 years old, living in Boston Massachusetts where I grew up. I've been a union organizer for 5 years, fighting to make the world a more just and fair place for workers, people of color, and anyone who doesn't have power in their day to day life. In my free time I'm an avid hiker, bar-hopper, whiskey drinker, poet, party-hoster, I run a non-profit about providing opioid addiction awareness and musical opportunities to young people. I like to read in coffee shops and bars, I like getting to know people. I love hitch-hiking and adventuring. As Herman Hesse says, "“One never reaches home, but where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time." But I also have wanderlust and the desire to test myself and throw myself into situations which I am not familiar with. I am conflicted because I think trees express the most enviable, beautiful, sublime, peaceful existence there is. But I am not a tree. I am a man. I try to learn from trees what I can, but ultimately I must move my feet. I love hanging with kids. PHILOSOPHY One day I wish only to be a yea-sayer. At times it is difficult to move with a view of how arbitrary meaning is without an objective justification, but most of the time this is a motivation to create meaning and beauty and connection. separation is an illusion.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have had amazing amazing experiences surfing and I've had the chance to meet up with some people in different places I've been travelling/staying in. I am excited to host in Boston now that I've got a place that I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My God, the people I have met have changed me forever. they are the most honest, loving, down-to-earth, just trying to live the best they can type of people out there.

Interests

Poetry, literature, philosophy, biking, american football, arguing, all types of music, from tchaikovsky to tupac, from Black Moth Super Rainbow to Explosions in the Sky to Fleet Foxes to Mastodon to Simon & Garfunkel,
human connection
hiking
meditation
sucking the marrow out of life

• writing
• literature
• poetry
• beauty
• cooking
• meditation
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• american football
• soccer
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: seriously, any and all kinds. a recently playlist i made includes: miles davis, gotye, bruce springsteen, gold panda, black moth super rainbow, sufjan stevens, simon & garfunkel, blackbird blackbird, modest mouse,andrew bird, the red hot chili peppers, imogen heap, bon iver, kascade, ray lamontagne, the books, emancipator, michael giacchino, edward shaprpe & the magnetic zeros, led zeppelin and beirut. Books: too many to list but my favortie authors are Tracy K Smith, Hermann Hesse, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, JRR Tolkien, Jack Kerouac, and Borges. Movies: so many. Magnolia, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, Thank You for Smoking, There Will be Blood, Breakfast Club, Fight Club, Life of Brian, Patch Adams, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, The Tree of Life, the Meaning of Life.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have loved.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know how to organize. I know how to bring people together to do something scary and hard.
I am good with kids, and have experience working with children with disabilities.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'd love to take you out for a drink and share stories from our lives! Happy to share what it’s like fighting in the trenches for social and economic justice.

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, United States