CURRENT MISSION

rainbow revolution

ABOUT ME

A full-time free spirit, dreamer, bohemian, hippie, free-lover, transcendentalist; an artistic activist for feminism, gay rights, pro-choice, and freedom of speech; an absurd poet and a poetic absurdist, I believe in self-enlightenment, freedom, bicycles, rainbows, flowers, and hummingbirds. I like riding my bicycle in the sun and citing poems when I'm drunk.I want my epitaph to read: "This woman, she never stopped tripping."I play my ukuleles all day long and sometimes blow my melodica for a change. I also secretly live the life of a Cookies Fairy, home-delivering fresh baked cookies to friends in the middle of the night.

PHILOSOPHY

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear...I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life."
- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

"Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women."
- Nora Ephron

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Share stories, inspire minds, touch hearts.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've surfed with the kindest and hosted the maddest. The experiences have been equally amazing.

Interests

my three bicycles, bells chiming, butterflies and bees. And give me poetry or give me death.

• poetry
• acting
• dancing
• womens rights
• cooking
• recipes
• flowers
• traveling
• crochet
• knitting
• cycling
• swimming
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Vonnegut, Twain, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, cummings, Shaun Tan. And I love The Little Prince, even though it's one of the most depressing books in the world.Movies: Dead Poets Society, American Beauty, The Lives of Others, Amelie, The Fall, Tran Anh Hung, Wong Kar WaiMusic: Leonard Cohen (and I'd love every single Cohen lover in this universe), Pink Martini, Simon & Garfunkel, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Queen, and The Beatles (but that's too obvious)Musicals: Les Miserables, Avenue Q, Into the Woods, Evita, Billy Elliot.Other artists: Vincent Van Gogh, Monet, Yoko Ono, Marina AbramovicI have a soft spot for classic theater, but I mostly work with experimental and contemporary theater.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Must be either the houses in the valleys near the streams in the woods in the Baltic, motorbiking up the mountains alone one summer and throughout the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the next, or those lil' purple hearts dancing on leafy drops and two shorty vegetables swimming among shades of green while slowly and beautifully landing after a trip in the forest (if you've seen it you know what I'm talking about. truly enlightening).

hop-hopped criss-crossed 35 states

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd like to inspire (I dare not use the word teach!) people to cycle, bake, cook, crochet, knit, cross-stitch, stage acting, and talk days and nights about anything psychology- or poetry- or philosophy-related.
I'd like to learn almost everything, usually something quirky and surprising, something nerdy, and certainly something yummy. I collect recipes from all over the world.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, United States, Viet Nam

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