penny lane shepherdess

"an interesting plainness is the most difficult and precious thing to achieve."

i make things:
http://lindeneller.com

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

an exercise in kindness

Interests

collage/paint,
other places
(always)

growing food,
making things,
benevolence

pretty things,
small things,
picnicking

the old world
(film cameras
writing letters
homemade anything)

northern landscapes,
rivers, oak trees,
pale colours

show and tell,
hide and seek

the memory,
dreamings,
childhood

big laughs,
melancholy,
how to stay brave

Music, Movies, and Books

old folk, new folk.
lullabies.
little bit of jazz,
little bit of ambient.
some psychedelic rock (live),
music you roll down the windows to.

le fabuleux destin d'amelie poulain.
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
the science of sleep.
what's eating gilbert grape.
almost famous.
lost in translation.
frances ha.
before sunrise/sunset/midnight
miyazaki
and you know, wes anderson

peter pan,
100 years of solitude,
the god of small things,
the sun also rises,
cloudstreet

virginia woolf, willa cather
patti smith
mary oliver

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

keep going

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach you to sew fabric envelopes
and how to braid your hair on top of your head.
i'm getting pretty good at baking bagels.

i would like to learn the lindy hop, your grandmother's recipes,
and to improve my knitting skills.

i can share with you rocks and leaves i find that i think are special.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, American Samoa, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Micronesia, Federated States of, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Samoa, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, England, Japan, New Zealand, United States

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