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About Me

ABOUT ME

i have an aversion to assigning concrete terms to my self, which is so fundamentally ethereal.

Interests

empirical exploration. i love finding and experiencing new environments-- geographical, social and internal-- and constantly adapting my schema to incorporate the ever-flowing stream of new information.
for the past couple of years, ive been traveling around the united states a fair amount, settling down for an average of 6 months or so and then moving on to something completely different.
i enjoy doing crafts (sewing, knitting, weaving, collaging) , cooking/preparing food, gardening, learning/playing my violin, and spending quality, mutually inspirational time with people.
i spend a lot of time thinking about human interaction. how can we support each other in building/living lives that are sustainable and fulfilling in the midst of this ludicrous system, which we are all simultaneously subjected to and perpetuating?

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  • cooking
  • crafts
  • gardening
  • traveling
  • knitting
  • violin
  • backpacking

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

last fall, i was traveling around california and found myself in arcata on halloween. after a month of being on the road, i was feeling pretty haggard, exhausted and alone. all day, i had been fantasizing about cranberry juice and kombucha, but was out of money for anything even remotely frivolous.
i was sitting on the curb with my backpack across the street from the arcata theatre lounge, watching all the people in their costumes waiting to get into a show, when an older homebum sat down next to me. we started chatting about our lives, our struggles and our aspirations. after a bit, he looked at me and said, "hey, do you need money or anything?" i said, "umm, not really... im pretty broke but have enough to get by." "well," he said, "someone just walked up to me earlier and gave me a $20 bill and i'd really like to give you half."
"oh man!", i thought, "now i can get my cranberry juice and kombucha!", but just said, "thank you. that would be awesome."
he left to go to the grocery store down the street to break the 20, and returned 10 minutes later with a $10 bill and (i shit you not) a cranberry kombucha. he handed both to me and said,"i don't know if you like this stuff, but the spirit told me to get it for you."
tears welled up in my eyes and, as i drank it, i saw that though we are but tiny specks wandering around in a vast and incomprehensible universe, we are never, really, alone.

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