CURRENT MISSION

Meet new people, share info and interests, see life from new angles.

ABOUT ME

I love learning about life and experiencing the Journey; learning about other people and their views, as well as discovering my attractions and aversions and how they play out in the larger picture of my life.

I love working with youth, being with elders, and spending time with friends, family, and alone. I also enjoy the challenges and rewards of business doing internet marketing, web development and BPM.

I have a deep passion for Mono-theistic and non-theistic Theologies, Language, Linguistics, and Etymology (from etymon + -logia -logy in the 14th Century Greece), Indigenous Cultures, Enculturation, and Sustainable Agriculture and Business.

I am an Ecologist, artist, and photographer I love where I live and I love my homeland the Monongahela National Forest. I teach wilderness skills, natural awareness, wildcrafting herbs, and contemplative meditation. And I also work in Social Activism.

Previous Incarnations: Internet Marketing and Website Development Guru. Formally B-B Software Sales and before that Crisis Intervention and Family Counseling.

I want to learn to paint, and to do latin and classical dance.

PHILOSOPHY

I know my gestures for others are as nothing compared to the suffering in the world yet, I act anyway.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just Getting Started

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Just Getting Started

Interests

Exploring the natural world and celebrating the gifts of Life through Nature Education, outdoor recreation, earth skills, photography, music, community relationships, nature and survival classes for Educators, children, and adults.

• photography
• dancing
• education
• meditation
• painting
• survival
• music
• outdoor activities
• agriculture
• business
• ecology
• teaching
• etymology
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Wake Up To What You Do, 55 Concepts, The Tracker, Everyday Zen, Art Of Creativity, and everybook that has helped me to wake up to life as it is in this moment.

Movies: Carpi Diem, Color Purple, Ghost, Powder, Cinderella Man, Scent Of A Woman, Godfather Trilogy, Siddhartha

Music: My Favorite Musical style are Classical Crossover and Classical Fusion with a little Singer Song Writer thrown in. Coles Whalen, Bill Miller, Indigo Girls, Janine Jansen, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, Hayley Westenra, Summer, Laura Higgins, Summer, Venessa-Mae,

Teach, Learn, Share

To Hold onto the mirage like perciever,
the phantom self, is a stultifying burden...Just put it down.

-- Siddhartha Gautama (from Bhara Sutta: Samyattankikaya, Translated by Glenn Wallis)

(I add to this the following:)
If you want to know about your life and what is happening, then know about your life and what IS happening.
Know: in body, emotions, mind, and the sensorium. How is it? That all there is to it!