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Overview
About Me
*Currently I'm horribly busy - hope to be able to host very soon*
CURRENT MISSION
Learning by socratic methods: performed by firesides, at terraces with friends and beers or while travelling
ABOUT ME
Rather eccentric walker and coffe entusiast, who talks and reads throughout the day. I walk most days, almost anywhere: In spite of living in the world capital of bikes, my bike remain fairely often locked: I walk instead, wearing my shoes crooked and tattered, trying to remake the city as a room meant to live in and not just a transportation hub. And you just meet more people when walking. Currently sitting when I'm not walking; writing af couple of books while looking at the though my window.
Interests
I walk a lot, at all times of the day (or night) - thinking about and looking for weird angles of the city - and if in company: talking through out the night.
Otherwise I spend my time making Italian coffe, baking bread and reading old books.
- writing
- books
- singing
- beer
- baking
- walking
- reading
- traveling
- cycling
- mountains
Music, Movies, and Books
I read tons - never having acquired a lot of furniture, but stored up heaps of books, I am trying to enlarge my furniture property by reusing my books: No bed or desk need to be thrown out because of a broken legs, books make for a fine restoration. I do read as well - the tales of Karen Blixen, Cormac McCarthty, Hertha Müller, Imre Kertesz, Gao Xingjian, Ah Cheng, Milan Kundera, the Jonathans of American litterature... and on goes the list
Music - also a longer story, but most often some sort of Jazz - and a weak heart for soul and funk. And anything LIVE.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Got lost while trekking in the Himalaya mountains, walked for hours in light snow fall without any equipent, but was saved by a loud singing tibetan goat shepherd.
Living a year alone in a chinese concrete flat with only a boiler, a small stove and 5 neon lamps - or not alone , of course together with one rat, a herd of croak roaches, spiders, worms in the sink and occasionally ants on visit.
Teach, Learn, Share
I know the age old knowledge of how to make a good sourdough, resulting in wonderful breads with crispy crusts but long fibered, soft cores...
Countries I’ve Visited
Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Finland, France, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam
Countries I’ve Lived In
China, Denmark