CURRENT MISSION

love. learn. explore. create. transform. inspire. love.

ABOUT ME

an adaptable enigma, well understood.

PHILOSOPHY

amor vincit omnia

we are the music-makers,
and we are the dreamers of dreams,
wandering by lone sea-breakers,
and sitting by desolate streams;
world-losers and world-forsakers,
on whom the pale moon gleams:
yet we are the movers and shakers
of the world for ever, it seems

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

getting to know you, getting to know all about you.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

couch surfing hooked me up with my current housemates in bogota. good times.

Interests

making the world a better place, peaceful defiance against militant repression, governments and consituents, red wine with chocolate and cheese, laughter, trees, lakes, flowers, sun, fog, rain and pretty much all things outside, quality conversation, honesty, poetry and literature, writing, revolution, dance, visual art, circus arts, sunsets, live music, people, love

• arts
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• dancing
• human rights
• chocolate
• wine
• red wine
• cheese
• flowers
• music
• live music
• surfing
• beaches
• lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: fantastic mr. fox* juno* american beauty* good will hunting* pulp fiction* maverick* amelie* city of god* reality bites* legends of the fall* hero* the usual suspects* a river runs through it* a chorus line* jesus christ superstar* my girl* the red violin* basquiat* the royal tennanbaums* maria full of grace* there's something about mary* butch cassidy and the sundance kid* great expectations*

books: so many... top 10 to come to mind... 1. The Giving Tree 2. The Sun Also Rises 3. Tropic of Cancer 4. One Hundred Years of Solitude 5. We the Living 6. The Stranger 7. Slaughterhouse Five 8. The Spice Box of Earth 9. Finnegans Wake 10. The God of Small Things

music: way too hard to make a list. i love music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

most recently in amazingness, i walked the camino de santiago with my two wonderful siblings. i have also travelled with a circus, worked for human rights in latin america, climbed to the tops of volcanos and ruins, built snow forts and river rafts, written poetry, fiction and non-fiction, cartwheeled on beaches, jumped in piles of colorful leaves and entrusted my life to strangers- amoung other things.

Teach, Learn, Share

i can spin fire. and tap dance.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, France, Honduras, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Guatemala, United States