They/them pronouns

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Based in the East Bay, CA

I am currently researching to write a blog/book about anti-racist Celtic Awareness and spirituality. Ask me about it and I might nerd out for while ;)

Just finished travel in the Celtic/British Isles! Might be heading back soon :) also planning a Mexico trip

I work at the intersections of ecological justice, racial justice and disability justice. Gardening as therapy and ensuring accessibility has become a huge part of my life

I'm a nature person but I also love wandering around new cities, checking out museums, and reading poetry in cafes. I also love live music and dance

I am an urban farmer, permaculturist, herbalist, witchy, Interfaith celebrating spiritual devotion and solidarity with Islam, Buddhadharma, Advaita, Celtic Paganism. Through decolonization of the self and surroundings, deep respect, support and honoring the joy of truth.

I am a mutual aid abolitionist, I work with unhoused activists and advocacy groups in harm reduction and creating our own resources to share.

I am on a Healing Path. This is activism

I love playing music, playing in the dirt, singing and dancing with the trees, seeking organizations to lend support to, learning and loving. I also love wandering around new cities

I am neurodivergent but recognize that is only one term that describes a diversity of experiences.

Queer pride/justice hand in hand :) I am pansexual, enby/genderfluid, happy to experience many spectrums of presentation and motivation.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To explore the world through human, land and spirit connection, building solidarity, resilience and softness, with a dash of mischief ;)

Interests

Falastín will be free in our lifetimes. I am proud of my Irish ancestors and current cousins who are really showing up! I believe in the sacredness of protecting Land, Water and Human Rights! Black Lives Matter

Too many interests lol: Gardening, basket weaving, hindustani music, jazz, forests, architecture, desert canyons, rivers, hot springs, sacred geometry, hip hop, fermentation, qi gong, herbalism, mutual aid, yoga, biking, vegetarian food food food, breathing, vajrayana, zen, I ching, tarot, tai chi, geomancy, divination, dancing, tree climbing, reiki, medicine, social justice, indigenous rights, music, queer rights, guitar, board games, world building and lore, sci-fi fantasy, imagination games, improvisation, drums, singing, writing, poetry, permaculture, earthworks, ecology, radical inclusive feminism, spirituality, racial justice, education, ceramics, textiles, swaraj, art, playtime, reading, sipping tea, geodesics, invention, sonic therapy

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• singing
• dancing
• education
• womens rights
• dining
• yoga
• gardening
• board games
• reading
• pottery
• music
• guitar
• drums
• cycling
• muslim
• buddhist
• rock climbing
• ecology
• teaching
• medicine
• rivers
• activism
• love
• indigenous rights
• hindustani music
• black lives matter
• lgbtq
• hope
• trans liberation

Music, Movies, and Books

Musica: Hindustani!!! And Jazz, and weird things. Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar, Ajoy Chakraborty, Shabaka, Zakir Hussain, Thelonious Monk, Philip Glass, Nujabes, The Beatles, John Coltrane, Robert Johnson, Fannah Fi Allah, Qawali, Griot tradition, desert blues ~ Tinariwen, Mdou Moctar, Django Reinhardt, Grizzly Bear, Velvet Underground, FKA twigs, Flying Lotus, Townes Van ZandtJefferson St. Parade Band and sooooooo many more

Bookz: Everything by Ursula K. Leguin, The Phantom Tollbooth, Dinotopia, Brave New World, Oryx and Crake, Howard Zinn, Joseph Campbell, Women Who Run With the Wolves, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, funky zines, Promethea, Tolkien! (deephead lotr lore), Between the World and Me, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, I Ching, Light on Life (Iyengar), 100 Years of Solitude, Siddhartha, Encyclopedia of mythical creatures, tomes/scrolls/grimoires, The Gods Themselves, Seed to Harvest (Octavia Butler), A Canticle for Leibowitz, etc ad absurdum.

Movies/TV: arthouse films, sucker for 90's Star Trek, Avatar the last airbender, Fern Gully, pretty much all Studio Ghibli (Miyazaki) especially Howls Moving Castle and Totoro, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Mushi-shi, Robin Hood, Sherlock, Koyanisqaatsi, Harold and Maude, Foundation, Silo, City of God, Rockers, 80's weird stuff.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Danced under the moonlight with sweeties while mist flowed in from the sea

Planted over 10,000 trees

Written over 100 songs

Participated in a giant human medicine wheel

Served tea to Vandana Shiva

Saw a sea otter and a shooting star over the ocean

Been in love

Teach, Learn, Share

I believe we all have unique gifts to learn from each other! I would love to learn about local culture, cuisine, walking routes, biking, learn about music shows

What I Can Share with Hosts

Happy to share cooking (vegetarian) food, gardening ideas, tarot/I ching, poetry, music, writing, maybe trade massage

Countries I’ve Visited

Finland, India, Mexico