CURRENT MISSION

Travel and culture and old worlds and new; always art and music

ABOUT ME

Books, art, nature, animals (no meat)

PHILOSOPHY

Living to learn and experience--to make beauty through art and relationships and take in beauty through people, places, and art.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have happily hosted several times and have surfed as well--such a satisfying way to visit a new place or rediscover a familiar one.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

hosting roving singer-songwriters in town for a night. Lots of best-friend family sleepovers home and away. a bedroom for students or writers who need a place for a while

Interests

poems, books, art, rawk, family, travel, Adirondacks, Ethiopia, outdoors, tea, guitar, opera, pleasure, friendship, happiness

• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• beauty
• dancing
• coffee
• traveling
• guitar
• opera
• outdoor activities
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Guided By Voices, Schiele, Pamuk, Heaney, Lowell, Sugimoto, Cuckoo's Nest, Ondaatje, Jock Sturges, Mozart, Pärt, Lightfoot, Gaye, McMurtry (pere et fil), Capra

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

what's not amazing if you actually take it in?

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: words, literature, aesthetics, family
Learn: everything--places, languages, history, art, culture
Share: talk, coffee, walks, enthusiasm

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