CURRENT MISSION

to take the long way home

ABOUT ME

Like to go running early in the morning before the city wakes up. Have four siblings, so accustomed to relaxing amidst chaos and pitching in. Often have my nose in a book. Easy going, curious, and enjoy a bit of adrenaline now and again. Most often happy, but when sad listen to Billie Holiday albums over and over until my neighbors bang with a broom on the ceiling.

PHILOSOPHY

"Our original guiding stars are struggle and hope, but there is no such thing as a lone struggle, no such thing as a lone hope. In every human being are combined the most distant epochs, passivity, mistakes, sufferings, the pressing urgencies of our own time [and] the pace of history . . . There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rights of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny."
-Pablo Neruda

Interests

Any outdoor adventure, literature, road trips, sumi ink drawings, local history, cooking dinner with friends, writing, live music!

• writing
• books
• literature
• singing
• dancing
• cooking
• running
• music
• live music
• outdoor activities
• sailing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• history
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, Javier Marias; The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald; Dreams of My Russian Summers, Andrei Makine; The Bear Comes Home, Rafi Zabor; The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Jose Saramago, of course Dostoyevsky and Steınbeck, and I could go on and on! One lifetime is certainly not enough to read all the great books.
MOVIES: Rouge, A Thin Red Line, Hable con Ella, Casablanca, Blade Runner, City of God, Noi, Cool Hand Luke, The Secret in Their Eyes, Beginners
MUSIC: Andrew Bird, Rogue Wave, Belle & Sebastian, The National, CocoRosie, Sigur Ros, Bach, Billie Holiday, Keith Jarrett, Thelonius Monk

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Survived being run over by a taxi when I was five.
Night swimming off the coast of Mexico during a lunar eclipse.
Bivouacking on a big wall.

Teach, Learn, Share

Can tune up your bicycle, and cook nice omlets. If you like we can go climbing :) Love the ocean and would like to learn more about sailing. Always looking for a good book recommendation and can give a few as well.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Mexico, United States

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