CURRENT MISSION

To find the world's most beautiful brick (I love bricks).

ABOUT ME

I like humans, most of the time. And even when I don't like them, I can muster the ability to acknowledge the extreme complexity, beauty, comedy, and tragedy of their lives.
I've led wilderness trips (hiking and canoeing) in the beautiful north-woods of michigan and Wisconsin.
I think it's fabulous how all matter gets rearranged over the eons, forming at various times things like human-beings, tea kettles, newspapers, et al.
I once had a pet rabbit, I'm not sure she ever loved me, but I loved her.
Since the commencement of my formal education, I've been trying to take the reins of my own education. Sometimes this requires writing syllabi for myself.
I have a fair bit of knowledge about nature (esp. How it functions as a social construct), architecture, contemporary art, and edible plants in michigan.
I like hearing people talk about their passions.

PHILOSOPHY

Do the best thing.
Ask: what is the best thing?
Don't: ask that question so much that you are paralyzed.

Acknowledge your finitude.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only used Couchsurfing once to hang out with someone in Stockholm. But I'm eager to meet and host.

Interests

Greenhouses, salamanders, material flows, the history of agriculture, how people make their home out of the conditions of their life, contact improv, dancing, terrariums.

• pets
• arts
• writing
• architecture
• contemporary art
• beauty
• dancing
• education
• hiking
• canoeing
• agriculture
• teaching
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS
Mink River (Brian Doyle)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers K (David James Duncan)
A Pattern Language (Christopher Alexander)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

FILMS
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Lives of Others
Man on Wire
Please Vote for Me
Babel
Die Architekten
Entre les murs
Des hommes et des dieux
King of Kong
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Life in a Day
Sherman's March: A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love In the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation

MUSIC
Sufjan Stevens
Andrew Bird
Belle & Sebastian
The National
Atlas Sound
The Flaming Lips
João Gilberto
The Antlers
Jack White
James Blake
The Mountain Goats

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw a baby loon trying to take off for the first time. It flapped it's way halfway across the lake.

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