CURRENT MISSION

To have the map handy while enjoying the scenery at hand ...

ABOUT ME

I have led a full life thus far and am thankful for it. The highlights have been the four years I spent living in Eurasian Georgia as a Peace Corps Volunteer and later as a Fulbright Research Fellow. I got to host on CS while in Tbilisi and loved it after being hosted by so many kind people before that. Now I am back in the US attempting to settle down a bit ...at least for a little while ;) The road is always calling ...

PHILOSOPHY

"Live simply so that others may simply live."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted and surfed ...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My favorite CS experiences have involved hosts who have made me feel a part of their communities for a short time ... and surfers who have left a lasting impression through conversation and shared experience exploration ...

Interests

tolerance, healing, international relations, the Caucasus, W. Africa, singing, mead and beer and cider, community-building, service, cooking new recipes, baseball, genealogy, washboards, travel, exploration, free-flowin' conversations interlaced with wit, humble intellectualism, and occasional beat-boxin', photography, gardening, national parks, hikin', kayakin', campin', front porches, bisquits and cornbread, hospitality both ways...

• singing
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• beer
• gardening
• traveling
• baseball
• genealogy
• international relations
• languages
• volunteering
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
Jason Isbell, Townes Van MF Zandt, Andrew Bird, Eric B and Rakim, Sufjan Stevens, The Great Lakes Swimmers, Jose Gonzalez, The Black Sheep, The Black Pumas, Gillian Welch, Iron and Wine, Cash, Dvorak, Neil Young, Mahalia Jackson, Ralph Stanley, Stravinsky, Ben Harper, Dougie MacLean, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Band, Hamlet Gonashvili, George Jones, Aimee Mann, Jim White, America, Waylon Jennings, The Handsome Family, LL Cool J, Digital Underground, U2, Solas, Led Zeppelin, Al Green, Alasdair Fraser, Chris Isaak, Ledbelly, Leonard Cohen, Common, Scott Trowbridge, Robert Johnson, Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Hank Williams Sr...

MOVIES
The Wicker Man (original 1973 version), The Piano, Beasts of the Southern Wild, A Chef in Love, Motorcycle Diaries, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, PowerTrip, Blazing Saddles, The Deer Hunter, Burnt By the Sun, The Wine Thieves, Chiefs, Sexy Beast, House of Sand and Fog, Gandhi, The Empire Strikes Back, The Buena Vista Social Club, The Last Waltz, Shawshank Redemption, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Bad Words, The Last Temptation of Christ, V for Vendetta, Into the Wild, The Matrix, Father of a Soldier

BOOKS
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Absolam! Absolam! by Faulkner, Grapes of Wrath, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, those by Harry Crews, Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, The Georgian Feast, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Long Walk, The Education of Little Tree, Bhagavad Gita, The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Chiefs by Stuart Woods, All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have been welcomed by the kindness of those who gave more than they could afford to give ... Hopefully I have given enough myself.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can talk on and on (only if you want) about ...

The Caucasus

Identity in the Southern US

Racial Transformation

Growing food

Baseball

... and others ...

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Georgia, Russian Federation, United States

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