CURRENT MISSION

Making friends, visiting them and revisiting them

ABOUT ME

Socially, I'm always a bit awkward and shy at first. But by nature, I'm very talkative.

Somehow, all my friends (young and old) find me easy to talk to and confide in. I consider this my virtue.

I have a good sense of humor, very easily tickled, and was told twice that I chuckled in my sleep (I must have been dreaming some funny dreams).

And I love meeting new people.

PHILOSOPHY

1. The greatest conquest is that of the mind--Lord Buddha

2. If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain--Emily Dickinson

3. I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells.
I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Integrity, of Wisdom and of Peace.
When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are One--Namaste

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My CS experiences were all great!!!

Interests

Reading, writing, traveling, jigsaw puzzles, food, movies and music

• writing
• dining
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• puzzles
• music
• nursing

Music, Movies, and Books

Singers-composers:
American & British & Canadian--Roberta Flack, Julie Andrews, Judy Collins, Beatles, BGs, Cat Stevens, Carole King, Michael Buble, Pink Martini
French--Michel Berger, Veronique Sanson, Francoise Hardy, Maxime Le Forestier, Barbara, Francis Cabrel, Etienne Daho, Sheller, Serge Gainsbourg
Belgian: Philippe Lafontaine
Italian--Francesco de Gregori, Franco Battiato, Riccardo Cocciante, Vasco Rossi, Patty Pravo
Spanish--Placido Domingo, Julio Iglesias
Japanese--Masashi, Momoe, Anzen Chitai, Southern All Stars
Thai--(too many)

Clasical music:
Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss, Schubert, Bach, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovski, Vivaldi, Joaquin Rodrigo, Smetana, Dvorak, Kitaro

Authors:
British--W.S. Maugham, Rosamunde Pilcher, Daphne du Maurier, George Orwell, Ross King, P.G. Wodehouse, Louis de Berniere, Gerald Durrell
American--Erich Segal, Paul Gallico, Jon Hassler, James A. Michener, Beth Gutcheon, Anne Tyler, John Grisham, Irving Wallace, Garrison Keillor
Australian--Colleen McCullough, Morris West
French--Marcel Pagnol, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Guy de Maupassant, Francoise Sagan, Philippe Delerm, Philippe Labro
German--Stefan Zweig (Austrian)
Japanese--Soseki Natsume, Yukio Mishima

Movies:
8 Femmes, Dead Poets Society, Lorenzo's Oil, Thelma and Louise, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Lady Chatterley's Lover, La vita e Bella, Cinema Paradiso, Breakfast at Tiffany's, English Patient, Mine Vaganti (Le Premier qui l'a dit), Ratatouille, Demoiselles de Rochefort, Parapluie de Cherboug

Shows and series:
Frasiers, Friends, Brothers and sisters, Desperate Housewives, Golden Girls, Macgyver, Vivement Dimanche, Telematin, Le Plus Grand Cabaret du Monde, Escapade de Petit Renaud

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Nursing bed-ridden terminal-stage patients back to being mobile and enjoying their last days with loves ones at home.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Japan, Thailand, United States

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