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Overview

  • 4 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning German, Spanish
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • I work at an art gallery and for a magazine
  • Current student - Advertising & Art History
  • From Austin, Texas
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

-love-

ABOUT ME

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are those who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

PHILOSOPHY

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman

one must desire something to be alive. -Margaret Deland

be the change you wish to see in the world -Ghandi (my absolute favorite quote)

"It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”"
— Carson McCullers

**And above all, watch the world with glittering eyes because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it**

Interests

  • magic
  • emergency services

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies - Das Wilde Leben/ Eight Miles High, Sex and Lucia, London, Summer Lovers, Dazed and Confused,Vicky Christina Barcelona, Shortbus, Slackers, Beautiful Losers, Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, Two Days in Paris, Factory Girl, Wonderland, Basquiat, Cruel Intentions

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to Life <- amazing book!
Be Love Now by Ram Dass <-will change your life :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Accidently stumbling upon the Paris Technoparade was an incredible experience...right up until I was tear-gassed by riot police and then mugged. good times none the less

Roadtrip to Yellowstone National Park! Absolutely stunning out there.

Couchsurfing in Basque Country. beautiful place with beautiful people.

Mexican sunsets that will take your breath away <3

visited 8 states (3.55%)Create your own visited map of The World

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States

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