CURRENT MISSION

To be present and live life fully. To be engaged.

ABOUT ME

I'm as Canadian as Canadian can be I guess. My family has been here since before confederation. Great Great Grandma married a Micmac in PEI.

I know how to do a J stroke in a canoe. I like have a beer on a sunny patio in the summer. I like to cross country ski and ride my bike.

I tend to be rather deep and philosophical but I can also be rather daft and silly. I try to keep a good healthy balance and be open to things.

PHILOSOPHY

Win/Win. I believe that we can always find synergy and creative aspects in any situation. When we stop defending our egos right to be right we can get down to realizing that everybody can win at the same time.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just started but I would love to host in the future. I'm looking for an apartment right now so I will soon have the space to be a haven for others. I would love for someone to come stay in Peterborough. I'd be only too happy to show off our fair city.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I stayed in Dresden Germany with an excellent fellow who was a marvellous host and lead me and my friends around to great places we no doubt would not have found without his friendship and guidance.

Interests

Guitar, music, reading, philosophy, the inner workings of the human mind, cooking, food, film, cycling, coffee, writing. Anything really. I'm a rather curious fellow. These are the things I engage in most right now.

• writing
• causes
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• reading
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• canoeing
• skiing
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

The list goes on and on. Right now I am keen to find a copy of 'Nightbreed' to revisit the gem from Clive Barker circa 1990.

I am on a musical odyssey with the new love of my life. Much of what she brings to me I have never heard of. Paper Aeroplanes, OK GO, and Library Voices made a long list of late. Ella Fitzgerald, Rodney Crowell, Band of Horses, The National, Whitehorse...I love all kinds of music.

A the moment I am reading 'Eating The Dinosaur' by Chuck Klosterman. An interesting writer to be sure. Didn't make it through 'The Poisonwood Bible' despite it being a good read. I got busy and had to return it to the bible. I love Vonnegut and Robbins but there again, there is so much. I am usually reading something and there's no rhyme nor reason to the next book.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spent a day ascending and descending a mountain in central BC near Merritt. Not a big mountain by any means. No climbing gear required. But big enough that it took all day to walk up and down it. From its peak I could see the coastal range on the pacific ocean and the central range on the BC/Alberta border.

Teach, Learn, Share

The greatest lesson of late is acceptance. So much suffering in the world is due to a basic denial of reality as it is right now, in this moment. This doesn't mean complacency but the most basic engagement with what is without judgement and assumptions about what should be. Should can be a very dangerous word. Acceptance gives us the best basis for taking action and contributing to the world rather than seeing it as a series of fights to correct things. I am always disturbed by how many causes are described as fighting for something.

Countries I’ve Visited

Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada