CURRENT MISSION

using my emotional intelligence, lateral thinking, and romantic existential phenomeno-philosophy for:

scientific pursuit of clarity and structure of thought and connection,
compassion among ourselves and all animals,
and schematic mapping of our origins, the universe

ABOUT ME

i am a moth who wants to share your light

PHILOSOPHY

To be plain and simple, I'm a minimalist, and this goes down from the physical objects and things I own to the ideas I manifest in the mind. My perspective and values form in parallel with one another-- that is, while I have a true love for the universe and the understanding gained from science, I have fashioned this with my personal heart and fundamentally subjective nature. I find so much more is gained by placing oneself within the context of all other bodies and laws of Physics, than the stories and cathedrals built from humanity and its testament to self-importance. There is a kind of poetry in nature, in the evolutionary process of atoms, nebulae, stars, biology, and then the manifestation of the mind, conscious, sentient, and self-aware, whose faculties are used to reflect back upon these exact things, the theater-curtained origin, from which it originally sprang. The relative insignificance of the existence of life within the universe as a whole is not something to mourn; it should be cherished and an honor to have. Life is unique and devastating in its beauty, and the notion of death and our insignificance is all the more reason to completely, wholeheartedly love and embrace the rare, rare odds of being a human with an eye for observation, sentience, love, and fragility of existence within this vast, unknowable expanse of space and time that will stretch far beyond, before and after we are once again dusts of atoms.

So go out! fall in love, be honest, catch the sunrise without any sleep to fall back on, go out untethered into the darkness that is an unlocked door or an inviting field of moonlight and trembling wheat, bike directly to the home of a friend, singing back to the Starry Dome overhead, that turns a dial of planets and stars and galaxies while we continue with beating hearts and thoughtful minds in our short, sweet, wonderful lives.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

always friendly, mostly brief

Interests

physics, gauss' law, philosophy of character, values, virtues, metaphor and meaning, wordplay, playing with words, words that know how to play, the company of insects, the expanse of desert

• animals
• insects
• writing
• singing
• theater
• cycling
• biology
• entomology
• mathematics
• philosophy
• physics
• science
• philosophical conversations
• wordplay

Music, Movies, and Books

Microcosmos, Baraka, Radiohead, Nujabes, The Glass Castle, the lumineers, the green mile, Harry Potter, Terra, Dawn of Humanity, Death Cab for Cutie, nujabes, Coco,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I gently released a whole egg's worth of preying mantis siblings, individually placing them on grass blades and sticks and branches by the river bed

Hiking, camping with my dog, enthusiastic, contemplative, companion.

Fell in love with trespassing, science-compassion-philosophical themes, and spontaneous, serendipitous misadventures in nature-- the skeleton of my character built this way.

Walking the shore at 4 in the morning, with only the full moon for company.

Teach, Learn, Share

you will know when there are hearts in my eyes and a light bulb flashes over my head.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Mexico, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States