CURRENT MISSION

'The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware' - Henry Miller

ABOUT ME

We are a young family that has returned from a long journey to South Africa and Latin America. For many years we dreamed of traveling together, working together, quietly learning and watching each other grow as individuals. We did just that, doing some volunteer work (WWOOFing), learning the lullabies of other lands, stretching our language muscles, sharing our stories and filling our journals with recipes.

Now we are home, building a nest, growing veggies, trying not to forget all the Portuguese we picked up along the way!

PHILOSOPHY

We believe in living with the heart, in daydreaming, riding your bike, taking leaps of faith and watching kids for tips on spontaneity and joy
We also believe that there is much, much more to this universe than can be seen with the eye or touched with the hand
We try to embrace the chaos

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We have been hosted by many generous souls around the planet and would like to show travelers around our town.

Please contact us if you feel like joining us for a meal, being shown a Melbourne secret, or simply resting a while under our giant apricot tree. Our garden welcomes you.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Shared the homes of wonderful locals in Malaysia, Cape Town, Uruguay and Brasil.

Interests

cooking, music, babies and kids, living slowly and organically,magic, working with our hands, galactagogues, food security, mythology, healing, languages, community development, yoga, collecting children's books, poetry, quirky blogs, rhymes, remembering to BREATHE

• books
• poetry
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• yoga
• gardening
• traveling
• volunteer work
• magic
• music
• cycling
• languages
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Amelie, Spanish Apartment, Lost in Translation, anything by Woody Allen, Central Station, Everything is Illuminated, Being John Malkovich, Withnail and I, Ferris Beuler's Day Off, anything by Hal Hartley, the krumping documentary Rize, Little Miss Sunshine

Music: gypsy, hip-hop, jazz, blues, gospel, swing, Latin. Will always listen to bjork, tom waits, devendra banhart, feist, django reinhardt, zap mama, blind boys of alabama, ben harper, the beatles, ozomatli, cesaria evora, bob dylan, nina simone, jolie holland, madeliene peyroux, leonard cohen, de la soul, common, michael franti, gotan project, jeff buckley, alice russel...and the great podcasting mystic of Manhattan Benjamen Walker

Books: Jonathan Safran Foer, Zadie Smith, many of the Sufi mystics (especially Rumi and Hafiz), Pablo Neruda, Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Bach, Peter Hoeg, Joseph Campbell, Tom Robbins, Erica Jong, Isabel Allende, we collect cookbooks, picture books. Noah is often found in bed with a torch, reading Raymond E. Feist late into the night. He will read everything from JRR Tolkien to Murakami to Neil Gaiman, a keen blog observer and podcast listener.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Having our babies at home

Teach, Learn, Share

Between us we speak English, Russian, French and now some Portuguese. We can share our passion for food and cooking, our blossoming parenting experience and our interest in the ways people adapt and change.
We would love to learn about how other cultures raise their babies, alternative ways of healing and living sustainably.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, Ukraine

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