CURRENT MISSION

To spread like a fartsmell the infectious vibration of love and common experience

ABOUT ME

I need adventure like some people need their iphones. I need stimulation, integration, grass between my toes and the occasional thunderstorm. I need sex, sunrises, and love, love, love 8 days a week. I'm the hurricane and the eye, the blossom and the thorn, and let me tell you, it's pretty fucking awesome.

I play the keys/piano, the guitar, and the accordion, though you probably play all of those better than me and will end up giving me a lesson. I crochet (badly) and cook (only slightly less badly). I LOVE TO RIDE MY BIKE. And I love to read--but not instruction manuals-- which has gotten me in trouble.

PHILOSOPHY

"If you surrender to the air, you can ride it."
--Toni Morrison in "Song of Solomon"

"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
--Friedrich Nietzsche

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience
--Jack Kerouac

"No law is sacred to me but that of my own nature."
--Emerson

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"Ningún precio es demasiado alto para pagar para el privilegio de posesión usted mismo."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Ningún miedo o vergüenza en la dignidad de su experiencia"
-Jack Kerouac

"Ninguna ley es sagrada a mí, pero aquella de mi propia naturaleza."
-Emerson

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

*Love, given freely, and with the intent to free*

I wanna do everything and meet everyone and learn everything and go everywhere. I want to help you do the same. We have so much to teach each other and I can't wait to meet you.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have witnessed first hand the boundless capacity for human generosity. I have experienced kindness beyond even my own scope of reciprocity. I have met people who wander but are not lost, who can find ways to thrive outside their comfort zone. I am moved and inspired by every person I have met, both as a host and as a surfer, and I am grateful to have been several times over in both positions

Interests

Being moved. Being moved. Being moved some more.

alternative lifestyles, altruism, bathroom graffiti, being in the woods, BEING MOVED, brewing beer, booty shaking, combating oppression, compassion, consciousness (and the evolution thereof), conversation, critical thought, DIY as a lifestyle, dumpster diving and urban foraging, ecology, everyday heroes, experimentation, exploration, foraging for edible/medicinal plants, forests, love given and received freely and with the intent to free, gardening, gratitude, hangin' with old people, herbs, honesty, hope as a VERB, humor, imagination, inspiration, introspection, jamming, justice, kindness, knowing shit, languages, learning, literature, love as a REVOLUTION, making a joke out of things that hurt, music, mycology, the out of doors, passion, permaculture, radicalism, reading, respect, revolution, riding my bike, satire, sex (lots of it), simplicity, slack-line!, social movements, sunrises, standing for something, the world around me, transcendentalism, travel, vision, wisdom, wonder, writing, yoga, EVERYTHING ELSE!!!

• wildlife
• writing
• literature
• diy
• dancing
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• yoga
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• crochet
• homebrewing
• juggling
• dumpster diving
• music
• guitar
• piano
• blues
• cycling
• scuba diving
• ecology
• languages
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Music that comes from the heart and resonates in the soul. And that makes me wanna dance (this is not hard to do).

MOVIES THAT MOVE ME, American Beauty, 21 Grams, Amelie, Jesus' Son, I Heart Huckabees, Waking Life

BOOKS THAT MOVE ME!
Zorba the Greek--Nikos K.
Prodigal Summer -- Barbara Kingsolver
ANYTHING STEINBECK
The Poisionwood Bible -- Barbara Kingsolver
Song of Solomon -- Toni Morrison
Slaughterhouse Five --Vonnegut (RIP)
ANYTHING BY TOM ROBBINS but specifically Even Cowgirls get the Blues
Siddhartha -- Herman Hesse
Dharma Bums -- Jack Keroauk (how do you spell that?)
100 Years of Solitude --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Giving Tree -- Shel Silverstein
Be Here Now --Ram Dass

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Mayan ruins in the Yucatan. Love between strangers. The Texas Sky. The Amalfi Coastline. My little sister's laugh. Two rare frogs mating on my closed mouth. The atlantic and pacific oceans--at the same time--from the top of a mountain that I had just climbed. People helping people. My own indomitable spirit.

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El Mayan arruina en el Yukatán. Amor entre forasteros. El Cielo de Texas. La Línea de la costa Amalfi. La Costa de Oregon. Mt. Chiripo. La gente que ayuda a la gente. Mi propio espíritu indomitible.

Teach, Learn, Share

Well I'm really good at cartwheels. I can even do them one handed, and no-handed when I'm drunk. I would love to teach you how to do a cartwheel.

I pretty much want to learn everything about everything. But in a general effort toward specificity, here is a list of things you could teach me.
-more about wildlife in your bioregion (or mine)
-crochet stitches
-how to play blues guitar
-new firespinning tricks
-how to make wine/mead
-new ways to prepare root vegetables,
-how to juggle
-how to partner dance
-gardening/wildcrafting tips and skills

Countries I’ve Visited

Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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