CURRENT MISSION

To get my current projects wrapped up so i can get on with my real mission: global ethical revolution! Reverse the mono-tide! Power to bio/linguistic/cultural diversity!

ABOUT ME

Still pretty new here. Will be filling out a little more every time i go online. Still looking for
more digital pix that don't make me look too dorky.

PHILOSOPHY

Once upon a time, "resisting the flow" was the cause of most difficulties, but as the natural flow is disrupted and supplanted by the dammed (& damned!) and channeled toxic flow of modern commerce, "going with the flow" is becoming destructive. Now we must teeter precariously on the mounting winds, thinking and feeling carefully every moment to find and follow a healing course.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

So far, just offering my spare mattress and front room floor. Been a bit of a hermit lately, so decided to sign up and offer to share my space. I have a little rearranging to do to host, so give me at least a few hours lead time.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only surfed one couch so far, for a nice week in San Carlos, Sonora, but i've both surfed and hosted occasionally through word of mouth and random encounters all my adult life, mostly in California, some in the southwestern states and Maui

Interests

yoga, bodysurfing big waves, climbing big trees, dancing to acoustic and electronic music, cooking, gardening, forest restoration, biking, hiking, camping, group discussion and bonding, guitar & singing... etc

• singing
• dancing
• cooking
• yoga
• gardening
• restoration
• music
• electronic music
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Track down & read "The Jaguar Hunter" a short story by Lucius Shepard!
Anything by Barbara Kingsolver, especially her essay collections like "High Tide in Tucson"
"The Word for World is Forest" Ursula K LeGuin
"The Baron in the Trees" Italo Calvino
"The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You" Dorothy Bryant
Y'all MUST track down a copy of "The Widow's Son" by Robert Anton Wilson, but skip most of the footnotes the first time around or you'll get lost and go crazy. While you're at it, read "The Earth Will Shake" before it and "Nature's God" after. Unfortunately you can't finish up with "The World Turned Upside Down" because he died before he could write it, or maybe "THEY" just killed him and stole the manuscript before he could publish (cue twilight zone theme...). These comprise "The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles"... don't confuse these with the confusing and silly "Illuminatus!" trilogy
Greg Bear's short story anthology, especially "The Judgement Engine", "Hardfought", "The Visitation", & "The White Horse Child"
"Schismatrix Plus", only 1 by Bruce Sterling i really like
"Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Job, a Comedy of Justice" Robert Heinlein's 2 exceptional greats
I'll stop here, but contact me for more book recommendations once you've read these!
YOUR LIBRARY IS MORE THAN JUST WiFi & FREE DVDs!!!
Cheesy, i know, but "Avatar" in 3D while high for the first time in a while rocked my world. Reminded me of the desperate losing battle for the Headwaters Forest redwoods in the late 90s. Similarly primed for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"... high for the first time in years, right after breaking up with the selfishly-impulsive-with-selective-memory-love-of-my-life-so-far, very like the protagonist's heartbreaker. Saw it again sober & sane, and must admit it seemed less earth-shaking.
Just saw "Magnolia" again... LOTS of food for thought there.
Just discovered and really like films by the DuPlass brothers.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Built and lived in a perfectly concealed tree-tent 70 feet (23 meters) up a redwood tree in the middle of the Santa Cruz, CA suburbs. Pruned a vertical entrance tunnel through the 6-10 foot-thick ivy bush that grew to 20ft above my pad, using 3 inch-thick ivy trunks as handholds and footholds where the branches were too far apart. Shared the tree with a squirrel nest 15ft above me. A raccoon lived at 30ft in the adjacent fir tree. Once saw an actual ALBATROSS land in the laurel trees across the stream. Late at night, climbed past the squirrels to the top of the tree 50ft above my bed to watch the waves roll along the cliffs at Steamer Lane. Aahhh, those were the days...

Teach, Learn, Share

Stuff. All kinds of stuff. VERY broad experience and expertise, but very patchy. Help me bridge some of my gaps and i'll help bridge yours. A propos of life on the road: i've got helpful hints on enchanted free camping on the fringes of Californian coastal mountain towns.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, United States