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Overview

  • 14 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Serbo-Croatian
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Actor, Credit Counsellor
  • High school and five years of college.
  • From Waterboro, Maine
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Meet and connect, share the love.

ABOUT ME

I'll do this using quotations:

"In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused."
--Ernest Hemingway, Preface to The First Forty-Nine Stories (1944)

"That California get-rich-quick disease of my youth spread like wildfire. It produced a civilization which has destroyed the simplicity and repose of life, its poetry, its soft romantic dreams and visions, and replaced them with a money fever, sordid ideals, vulgar ambitions and the sleep which does not refresh. It has created a thousand useless luxuries and turned them into necessities, and satisfied nothing."

-From a newspaper article by Mark Twain

"Čovječe pazi da ne ideš malen ispod zvijezda." // "Man, be careful not to go, small as thou are, under the stars."

--Antun Branko Šimić, "Opomena"

"Make voyages, attempt them, there is nothing else."

--Tennessee Williams, "Camino Real"

PHILOSOPHY

The only thing in life of any value is people. People and the songs and stories that make up their lives. Everything else is just decoration.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Come to my city and I'll show you around. I hope that you'll do the same for me.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet!

Interests

Theater, writing, graffiti, music, hiking, sustainable living/minimalist living, objects of art, places of beauty, geology, traveling, singing songs, talking about the world.

  • arts
  • writing
  • poetry
  • singing
  • theater
  • beauty
  • make up
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • geology

Music, Movies, and Books

Of course.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a little bit of geology, a little bit of philosophy but a lot about theater and writing.

I can also teach you how to play the didgeridoo in about six hours.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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