Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet interesting people, offer hospitality, and cultivate a more frugal lifestyle for myself and others.

Interests

Honesty, wild edible plants & mushrooms, fermentation, traditional music & dance, cultivating a sense of place, environmentalism, and building healthy community.

• festivals
• dancing
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Radical Honesty, Sex at Dawn, Into the Wild, Radical Simplicity, No Impact Man, A Walk in the Woods, The Spell of the Sensuous, Wild Fermentation, The Botony of Desire, The Irresistable Revolution, Jesus for President, The Omnivores Dilemma, Sex Economy Freedom & Community, Big Coal, Some New Kind of Trailer Trash, Animal Vegetable Miracle, Is it Utopia Yet?, The Millionaire Next Door, and The Man Who Quit Money.

Movies: Boyhood, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight, No Impact Man, The Botony of Desire, Grizzly Man, Amelie, Blood Diamond, Gasland, I.O.U.S.A., The Land Before Time, Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance, Dumb and Dumber, Butterfly, Persepolis, The Future of Food, How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, Kilowatt Ours, Into the Wild, Once, What Would Jesus Buy?, Waynes World, Patch Adams, Forest Gump, Boys Don't Cry, and Dead Poets Society.

Music: Old-Time, Punch Brothers, Tallest Man on Earth, The Avett Brothers, the Weepies, Band of Horses, Tracy Chapman, Pete Seeger, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Cat Stevens, Nickel Creek.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I won overall grand champion at the American Clogging Hall of Fame's World Clogging Championships twice while in college, and have performed at the Newport Folk Festival.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am a percussive dancer, musician, fermenter of various things, and I would love to teach or learn more about these things. I enjoy conversations about environmental affairs or social justice issues that focus on how we as individuals can change our lives to create positive social change.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Guatemala, Ireland, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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