CURRENT MISSION

[creating things, discovering things, helping people...][clean groundwater, biodiversity, cultural diversity, and linguistic diversity]

ABOUT ME

dirt - humus, human, humble, humilis, humiliate - of the ground, lowly

i make things...
i trade things...
i'll hook you up...

PHILOSOPHY

to take on life with sincerity, child-like humble openmindedness and curious skepticism.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm new. Hope to participate more soon. So far I've only housed traveling folk before use of this website, mainly through word-of-mouth, mostly for traveling bands, artists, activists. Helped an oldroommate host some very passionate couch surfers a while back, which motivated me to join the website. Haven't done any surfing yet, just hosting.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Assisted in hosting 4 Couch Surfers from Alabama who stayed at a friend's house

兴趣

best described as: Hais cuaj txub kaum

• traveling
• cycling
• surfing

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies:

the enigma of kaspar hauser, la planete sauvage, the three worlds of bali, little fugitive, the last unicorn, the return to oz, the cosmic eye, any film by william kentridge, nausicaä of the valley of the wind, the watermelon woman, shirkers, melvin van peebles...

Music:
jeff mangum, dilute, this heat, elizabeth "libba" cotten, heroin, codeine, heavy vegetable, pele, moss icon, jimmy rodgers, fisticuffs bluff, "moms" mabley, mohindar, sun ra, indian summer, joan baez, shotmaker, navio forge, antioch arrow, julia, bessie smith, jean ritchie, robert johnson, florian fricke, ora dell graham, what cheer? brigade, policy of three, daniel johnston, arthur russell, louis jordan, cap'n jazz, getatchew mekurya, embassy, melt bannana, cackle sisters, flipper, skip james, wipers, dead moon, joni mitchel, honeywell, queen, byron house, patti smith, new flesh, tappi tíkarrass, mulatu astatke, brian eno, fela kuti, charles bronson, a problem of alarming dimensions, blair harris, fuyu, crisco kids, chino horde, chinese girls, jimmy driftwood, doc watson, huun huur tu, donso n'goni, field recordings, those old sad songs...

..And it echoes in the bare red hills and over the bare red fields of the broken tribe. And it is sung in love and humility and gratitude, and the humble simple people pour their lives into the song...

...They begin to clap in complex rythms and to sing in a strange yodeling style that bridges octaves gracefully, creating a mesmerizing array of sounds. Gradually they collect into a circle around a fire...

Kaspar, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell? Kaspar Hauser: It feels strong in my heart... The music feels strong in my heart... I feel so unexpectedly old... Professor Daumer: You've been such a short time in the world, Kaspar... Kaspar Hauser: Why is everything so hard for me? Why can't I play the piano like I can breathe?

Books:

Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women by Caroline Walker Bynum, The story of the Girl Who Loved Caterpillars from Tsutsumi Chunagon monogatari, Design for Ecological Democracy by Randolph T. Hester, Smallholders Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carl, The Bear's Bicycle, Dream Anatomy (Nih Publication) by Michael Sappol, Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan, Human Anatomy:From the Renaissance to the Digital Age by Benjamin A. Rifkin, The Dumpster Diver by Janet Wong, Tiny Giants by Nate Powell, Science and Human Values by Jacob Bronowski, The Spirit Catches You and you Fall Down by Ann Fadiman, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) On Human Proportion by Albrecht Durer, The Bread and Puppet Theatre, Vol. 1 by Stefan Brecht, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, ethnographies, craft books, childrens' books, outdated textbooks, and books found in the trash.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

participated in a spontaneous parade that took over my city for a day.

教，学，和分享

could introduce the basics to making a woodcut...
could show you secret places to bike to then explore in Little Rock...

我游览过的国家

Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, United States

我居住过的国家

United States