I’m a future high school educator and information sponge; I get a kick out of sharing particularly salient information in relation to people's passions. I write a newsletter, attend book clubs, hike around, play basketball, love talking ideas and stories. I’m close with my parents and younger brother, and have platonic friendships with women, men and everyone in between. Been a Seattleite for the last eighteen years. I enjoy reading biographies, investigative journalism and non-fiction. I also have a syncretic spiritual side and lead a meditation group on Wednesday evenings.

[ ISTJ, Enneagram 5 (Investigator) and 9 (Mediator) tie, Aquarius, perennialist, basketball jones, writer, pluviophile, mystic, camper, antinomian, micro lender, crockpothead, karaoker, bibliophile, politico ]

Amiable and talk easy about anything, especially the conversations you actually like to have with people. I'd be a good time out when you have to get away from your real friends. I'm affable company but better one-on-one. Really enjoy getting to unconventional levels of conversation on unarticulatable subjects. Have pretty simple requirements for being content. I do fine on my own. If you're gone all day, I can entertain myself all hours, and am always punctual if you wanted to join me somewhere later, or if you'd need me back by a certain time. Point is, it's no stress with me however/whenever you work, or however your couch is run. I'm a pretty light customer and a very responsible traveler. So if you want to brainstorm post-capitalist machinery, or tell me that weird paranormal story your family carries around, or sip some coffee and just read, or go to the pub and test the waters... that's all good. Always open to exploring new experiences and carpeing diem.

----- "Better to act while you're still foolish enough to think you know everything than to be slowly frozen by the creeping uncertainty of bitter wisdom." | Lawrence Person

----- "So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something." | Samuel Johnson

----- "We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without." | Immanuel Kant

----- "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." | Aristotle

----- Life is hard, not about you, and you can't control it: what you most need is where you least want to look: the meaning of life is located at the place of greatest sacrifice: you must die many times before death to know it: the renewing transformation and resurrection of the hero is always happening: you are the Redeemer of the World.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

I love to meet new people, so seeing visitors from other countries over coffee is something I enjoy, hosting when I can, and traveling whenever there's money around.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I stayed with Gil and Nancy Glass in Washington, D.C. while my friend and I were lobbying for women's reproductive rights components to be included in Obama's health care reform.

I went to Springfield, Illinois, USA to present a paper that I authored with my professor at the State Politics and Policy Conference, staying with Colette and Jim Ellenburg for a night while there. We were near run over by a tornado, but it was all gravy. We had good beer and listened to great music at the local music festival... things are rarely better.

After graduating college I had the privilege to go to Europe with friends Kristina Kenney and Kaitlin Baird, where we hit Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin, Prague and Rome. We couchsurfed as often as we could and met some life-long friends along the way. Couldn't have asked for better.

兴趣

Pre-History | Psychology | Jung | Dreams | Mythology | Mysticism | U.S. Politics | Basketball | ISTJ | Aquarius | Wilderness | Blue cheese | Doppelbocks | Adam Curtis documentaries

• culture
• writing
• literature
• folklore
• design
• beauty
• festivals
• environment
• dining
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• running
• meditation
• walking
• drinking
• pub crawls
• politics
• news
• movies
• traveling
• music
• basketball
• business
• economics
• teaching
• history
• philately
• political science
• science
• parks

音乐、电影和书籍

REWINDS ----- 8½ • Annie Hall • Citizenfour • Death At A Funeral • Enter The Void • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind • Fiddler On The Roof • Her • Hook • I Huckabees • Life is Beautiful • Midnight In Paris • Network • Samsara • The Departed • The Sunset Limited • The Tree of Life • The Truman Show • Thrive • Tuning In • Waking Life • When We Were Kings

ROTATES ----- Stéphane Grappelli & Django Reinhardt • Beach House • The Shins • Sigur Rós • Cat Power • Thievery Corporation • Fleet Foxes • The White Stripes • Debussy on piano • Alan Watts lectures • all 90s triphop

READS ----- A History Of God • A People's History of the United States • Be Here Now • Behold A Pale Horse • Brothers Karamazov • Cat's Cradle • Confessions of an Economic Hitman • Cosmos & Psyche • Empire of Illusion • Denial of Death • Franny and Zooey • Hitch-22 • Homo Deus • Island • Necessity of Experience • Original Blessing • The Reenchantment of the World • Supernormal • The Sunset Limited • Tibetan Book of the Dead • Valis • The World as Will & Representation • When Corporations Rule The World • Why Buddhism Is True

SKIMS ----- Kottke • Sol's Civic Minute • r/changemyview • New Yorker's Daily Comment • Publicola • Arts & Letters Daily • This Day In History • Slog • Democracy Now • FiveThirtyEight • n+1 • Dissent • Frontline

WATCHES ----- Adam Curtis documentaries • Mr. Robot • Broad City • The X-Files • The West Wing • Planet Earth • Louie • The Twilight Zone • Veep • Arrested Development • Last Week Tonight • Cosmos (x 2) • Intervention • Borgen

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

In high school I started a entrepreneurial, charity-donating, black-market candy business that made the front cover of the Seattle Times after my school district banned candy in vending machines.

(https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crafty-candyman-a-sweet-sight-at-school-where-treats-are-banned/) and the story was aired on various national radio stations.

教，学，和分享

The US government set a bunch of beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. In the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink.

In Ancient Persia, when two people me to drink together, one of them was chosen to be the King of the Night. It was up to the King of the Night to set the tone of the conversation. If he poured more water than wine, he wished to speak of serious things. If he poured equal amounts of water and wine, he wished to speak of serious and pleasant things. More wine than water meant the night would be relaxing and enjoyable. (Brida, by Paulo Coehlo)

Catholic schoolboys and schoolgirls still, to this day, get rapped on the knuckles if they write with their left hand. This is a continued historical tradition, as 'left' in Latin is closely associated with the word 'sinister', which is associated with the Devil.

The number of bacterial cells in our body is ten times more than the number of human cells.

U.S. General Wesley Clark went on record in 2001 to say 7 wars were planned. They were Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Lebanon and Sudan.

'Gourmand' means 'lover of food' and 'philately' means 'lover of all things for which the taxes are paid'.

Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products which caused up to 10,000 people in the U.S. alone to contract HIV. After they found out the drug was contaminated, they pulled it off the U.S. market and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they could still make money.

An Indonesian tribe successfully uses the 'gandarusa' bush as a form of male birth control. Scientists say the plant prevents pregnancy by slowing down the activity of certain enzymes in the sperm that help them wriggle into a female's ovum.

On your 30th birthday in Germany, if you’re still single, its tradition to sweep the steps of city hall to indicate your availability.

The U6 unemployment rate is a more accurate measure of unemployment in the United States than the official unemployment rate (U3).

In 1669 King Louis XIV banned pointed, sharp knives in an attempt to reduce violence, and that's why table knifes are dull and rounded to this day.

In many ways, France pioneered the conscious use of urban design for political purposes. Paris in the early 19th century was essentially a medieval city, suffocating from overcrowding and poor infrastructure. Baron Haussmann’s urban renovations under Napoleon III in the 1850s and 1860s gave the City of Light a modern sewage system, beautiful suburban parks, and a network of train stations. He also took the opportunity to demolish unruly lower-class neighborhoods, banish their impoverished inhabitants to suburbs, and replace their cramped, narrow alleys with spacious, grand boulevards. In the event of an uprising, like those that took place in 1789, 1830, and 1848, French authorities hoped the wider streets would be both harder for revolutionary Parisians to barricade and easier for columns of French soldiers to march through to suppress revolts.

Many lamp posts in London are padded because so many people are texting and walking.

我游览过的国家

Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United States, Vatican City State

我居住过的国家

United States

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