CURRENT MISSION

giving back

ABOUT ME

Smith College grad. Religion (Comparative Mysticism) and Psychology major. Starting summer 2013 I will begin my Masters degree in Social Work.

Born and raised in New York & going to be traveling, wwoofing, and couch surfing from Summer 2012 til May 2013 in France and Spain.

PHILOSOPHY

Try to live in mindfulness and joy. I like to make and see others others smile, & I've learned this year to let go and laugh a lot a lot more.

"treat everyone you meet like God in drag" Ram Dass

I live with my contradictions
intact, seeking transcendence
but loving bread. I shrug
at both and from behind
the summer screen I look
out upon the dark, knowing
death as one form
of transcendence, but
so is life.

-David Ignatow

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing and hosting!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

met an american couchsurfer randomly in a cafe and tagged along with his lovely lovely host to two fancy parisien parties. interesting night a la new york...also surfed with awesome guys in Montpellier, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and Toulouse.

Interests

Singing, Psychology, Helping Children, All religions, Phenomenology, Gerhard Richter, Past Eras (before the 1970s), Reading everything, Sitting down and writing papers, Drinking Coffee in Cafes alone & with friends, Leaves & Sun, Women & Feminist Theory, Modern Art, Creative Theory, People's Stories, Poetry Poetry Poetry, Indiahhhh.

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• singing
• modern art
• festivals
• coffee
• partying
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• surfing
• psychology
• religion
• social work

Music, Movies, and Books

Hitchcock, French Films, Sleeper & Annie Hall, comedies i quote months later...like Super Troopers....

PATTI SMITH, & CAT POWER. Billie holiday and co, Hole and Nirvana, Modest Mouse, Polica, Dirty Projectors, Blockhead, The Doors, Swing Era Jazz...lots and lots...

Books!! cant even get started.... F. Scott Fitzgerald, JD Salinger, Arthur Miller, Zen Buddhism Books, Virginia Woolf, every book I read for my classes, Sartre's novels, Books about musicians and music, anything psychology.

oh and POETRY. Dylan Thomas, Anne Sexton, Joyce, Yeats, Sharon Olds, Ignatow, Philip Larkin, Merwin, Carl Phillips, Baudelaire...EE CUMMINGS, A love letter is never complete without an ee cummings poem...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in a Buddhist Monastery for four months
Survived Bodh Gaya during the Kalachakra Festival
Cured depression through a summer in Paris
Spoke to my Grandpa about that time he met Khrushchev...

Got into Grad School!
Spent a year in France and Spain

Teach, Learn, Share

I would like to add to my list of amazing things done and seen...and share them with you.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, India, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, India, United States