CURRENT MISSION

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ABOUT ME

Rooting in and ever exploring configurations for this constitutive, contingent life.

I currently homestead with my partner on "our" land in Cummington where we are growing an orchard of tree crops including hazelnuts, chestnuts, butternuts, fruit, berries, and medicinal herbs. We co-create with many more-than-human creatures of land and soil to enhance the soul of this place. We are also exploring what it means to live in contact with our neighbors and be "from" a place. We are building a house/habitat and variously tied to other income streams to make it all work.

PHILOSOPHY

It evolves everyday--inextricably interconnected with who and what and where I am in the world. Interbeing is still a big one. Flux is also important. Always exploring the ethics and joy of living and eating mindfully. Following the lineaments of deep contingency.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted and surfed many times. Meeting fellow couchsurfers always expands my world and reaffirms my belief in humanity! There something deeply satisfying about subverting the boundaries on possession and putting excess to good use.

Interests

intentional living, conversation, quotidian philosophy, reverence for life

• culture
• singing
• ethics
• cooking
• baking
• walking
• gardening
• politics
• spelunking
• love
• justice
• ducks
• service
• agroforestry
• feeding people
• growing nuts
• sheep and goats
• agrarianism

Music, Movies, and Books

Princess Bride, Huckabees. BSG and TWW. Sweet Honey in the Rock, Chris Pureka, Elephant Revival, Brown Bird. Tolkien, Wendell Berry, Dorothy Day, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous People's History of the United States, Lou Hammann, Louis de Bernieres, Orhan Pamuk, Ajahn Chah, HHDL

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spelunking in Tibet and stuffing momos in Kathmandu. the Annapurnas, the Ganges, Bodhgaya, and Indian trains. Walking the Pettus bridge in Selma with Bob Mants. Digging up a carrot in my very first garden!

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visited 24 states (48%)Create your own visited map of the United States

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visited 10 states (28.5%)Create your own visited map of India

Teach, Learn, Share

I love feeding friends old and new with good food from the land we live on. We are students of trees and fungi, and love to grok this astonishing, intricate autopoietic earth with others.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, India, Nepal, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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