CURRENT MISSION

to be and to become, all at once.

ABOUT ME

student of the human condition, traveler. i was raised by academics, at delightful garden parties in the summer and fall, and on continents near and far, and i like to think of my life as a work of magical realism, or more accurately, real magicalism.

* for some reason when i log onto couchsurfing in isafjördur, the internet says i'm logging in from reykjavík... *

PHILOSOPHY

machiavelli meets jan eliasson meets kundera. these days i'm getting fascinated with rawls and kwame anthony appiah, too.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i make really good sandwiches, salads and sushi. sometimes it's poetry with me, othertimes it's going out for a run or a long walk. good storyteller, competitive at board games. i guess i'm here to make your summer afternoons glitter.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

boston, maine, new york, and various delightful parts of europe.

Interests

bare feet, nightswimming, thrift stores, the seasons, adventure, peace, sunrises, sunsets, rooftops, camping, the margins of society, wildness, wilderness, croquet, masked balls, pink champagne, shooting stars, the night sky, the ocean, forests.

• poetry
• running
• partying
• gardening
• thrifting
• board games
• camping
• hunting

Music, Movies, and Books

books: love in the time of cholera, stargirl, gilgamesh, the darkangel trilogy, a tale of time city, zot, 'immortality' by milan kundera, nil, the boz chronicles, bill willingham's 'fables', the adventures of kavalier and clay, 'the taste of dreams' by vanora bennett, and so many others. / movies: seven years in tibet, city of lost children, waterworld, the saddest music in the world, breakfast on pluto, pi, the adventures of priscilla queen of the desert. / music: right now i'm strangely hooked on 'forever' by chris brown, even though most of what i listen to tends toward things with weird genre names like 'electroclash' or 'dancepunk' or 'dreampop' or 'antifolk'. maybe it's the hipster in me...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

when i was nine and my parents and i were living in new zealand, we drove past this volcano that had been erupting for the past couple of days. it was still smoking.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Fiji, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, United States

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