CURRENT MISSION

Learning, growing, loving - my constant prayer is to be 'an instrument of your peace'. And that is with my instrument of choice, the Alto Sax, or good conversation or learning some words of a new language or in the dance, always the dance!!!

ABOUT ME

My friends would say I'm courageous and passionate, very committed to what I put my attention towards. I'm a very loving and caring friend, fun to be around and involved in interesting things in life; music, community, healing, skiing, travelling, learning about other languages and cultures. I'm learning to play a 'mean' sax and love to dance and be in nature. I feel things deeply and care about the quality of life and relationship with nature that we human 'BEINGS' create.

PHILOSOPHY

I have great passion for connection in this world - whether it is in the ecstasy of the dance, of listening to and/or playing music and speaking 'that' language, through healing work and touch, finding common ground in other cultures and speaking (even awkwardly) languages other than English, seeing and understand joy in another's eyes, (and pain as well) and sharing love of animals, communion in and with nature, the music of water/ including waterfalls ( when it rains in the grand canyon on a river trip, the canyon goes from this hard, defined masculine entity to 100's upon hundreds of waterfalls - fluid, soft and moist/luscious and oh so very feminine.), rivers, oceans. I love to ride motorcycles cause of the sensual connection to one's place and space - even have traveled by bicycle overseas for that very reason -feeling, sensing and living life fully and impassioned.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

CouchSurfing is such a righteous way to create a worldwide network!!! I have so enjoyed the wonderful people I've hosted, both from the 50 states and international. We were recently hosted, for the first time in Santiago, Chile and it was a wonderful experience and testimony to the generous, random acts of kindness exchanged with other couchsurfers!!!!

Interests

living a 'rich and healthy' life....rich in love, friends of all ages, speaking a variety of languages, being an older woman in a band playing sax, dancing through life, advocating for those who are invisible, participating in my community through being a volunteer firefighter and medic, being a part of a team and showing up!!,
community, kindness, did I mention love and communication?!?!?

• animals
• beauty
• festivals
• dancing
• motorcycles
• boating
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• blues
• sailing
• skiing
• emergency services
• languages
• volunteering
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Anything by Isabelle Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez -LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (both book and movie)
YES a flim by Sally Potter -oh, so deliciously sensual!!!!
just saw a wonderful movie - THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED (clearly a testimony to the power of music)
ZORBA THE GREEK -both book and movie -you can come over and watch the movie, if you've never seen it
INCEPTION titillated my senses
PIRATE Radio was lots of fun
MAO's LAST DANCER was utterly amazing
(I love foreign films -much more than hollywood stuff)

BOOKS: oh, I wish I've kept track of the many books that have so 'wowed' me. I'll have to add to the list as I remember!
3 STAGES OF AMAZEMENT
THE HELP
BOOK OF NEGROS
reading of RUDYARD KIPLING'S writing (especially out loud)
AHAB'S WIFE
books by Alice Walker -TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR
writing by Thomas Friedman -THE WORLD IS FLAT

MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC my lifesaver!!!!
Nina Simone,
Olu Dara
Robert Cray (anybody see him in Telluride at B&B -wow,what an incredible and sensual set he did!!!!)
David Gray
Mozart
Cassandra Wilson
Van' the Man' Morrison - oh yeah, baby!!!
John Lee Hooker
Ben Harper
Bruce Cockburn
Sade
The Beatles
John Le Fave -(heard him for the first time at Pagosa festival and I was moved to tears -what a performance)
Mavis Staples and Gospel can do it for me -I'll Take You There!!!
REM
Paul Simon
PLaying For Change
Steve Winwood and Blind Faith and Traffic
Marcia Ball, The Neville Brothers and much more out of New Orleans
SACRED MUSIC/Spiritual music/ethnic music
Baba Maal and Miriam Makeeba and Hugh Masekela
Gil Scot Heron (if you know him we are tight!!!!!)
Miles, Stanley Turrentine, Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Stan Getz and paul Desmond

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sailing down the Mekong River in Laos and I'm on the roof of the cargo boat and playing long tones on the clarinet, as I'm a beginning reed player, and as I look out, I see villagers on the shore dancing to my notes and I knew then, that my musician had been born!

The absolute awe of being at Telluride in Colorado whether for the bluegrass festival where I've boogied to Little Feet, Joan Armatrane, Martin Sexton, Steve Earle, Sarah McLaughlin, or the Jazz Fest and hearing some of THE most outstanding performers of our times; Ron Carter, Stan Getz, Clayton Brothers, Paquito DeRivera or the Blues and Brews Festival just grooving to Mavis Stapes Marcia Ball, Robert Cray and on and on and being surrounded by the most magnificent peaks and Bridal Veil Falls and the absolute beauty of nature combined by some of the most glorious sounds and the delight of being alive and dancing in absolute joy with 1000's of my closest friends!!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Chile, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Laos, Mexico, New Zealand, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, Norway, Switzerland, United States