CURRENT MISSION

To leave the world better than I found it by working with honest whole hearted communities and individuals who believe in work ethic and right action.

ABOUT ME

I work with good folk to create and teach alternative education programs based in psychology, philosophy, cultural anthropology, history, and ecology to create places and relationships worth caring about and stewarded so that future generations of all living and non living things may flourish.

PHILOSOPHY

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
-FDR

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Meeting new passionate, and comitted individuals/groups to share life experience and to see where we can collaborate to make the world a better place to live in.

Interests

Sustainability, Art, Community, Beauty, Love, Life.

• arts
• beauty
• education
• anthropology
• ecology
• teaching
• history
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Wisdom sits in places, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, Phenomenology of Perception, Ways of Seeing, The Giver, The Human Condition, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, The Fountainhead, Spell of the Sensuous, House of Leaves, Foucault's Pendulum, The Intuitionist, The Handmaid's Tale, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Poetics of Space, White Noise, The Alchemist, Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, To You We Shall Return, The Lakota Way, The Philosophy of Enchantment, Faith in a Seed, Intelligence in Nature

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The sunrise surrounded by mountains in San Lucas Toleman.

Teach, Learn, Share

Through Motuv I am interested in time share- one of the things I want to do in each location is set up grids based on: name, contact info, skills roficient in vs. skills wanted. The point of this is to foster creative physical exchange between people that might not otherwise- think about the those who live by them having skills, knowledge or beliefs they would love but would never come up in any other way- The other point is to promote non consumer based economies and to integrate value back into exchange.

Countries I’ve Visited

Guatemala, Italy

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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