CURRENT MISSION

harnessing my power of intent through raising AWARENESS

ABOUT ME

The following are things I do that shape the totality of who I be: a student creating my own degree in Sustainable Living Systems(aka Permaculture) at University of Illinois in Springfield. I also love to dance and sing to tribal music and I read a lot. My eating habits are that of an locavore (I only eat animal-based foods when they are local, truly free-range from a small farmer nearby- otherwise I eat vegan). This is for environmental sustainability, which I care deeply about.

PHILOSOPHY

The quotes below tell part of the story. Essentially, I've found that in seeing my Self, I am able to see the world for the beautiful being it is. Thus, raising AWAREness is paramount to revelling in reverence for life. The best way I've found to bring joy to others is to overflow with it, to create it in myself.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Novice Couch Surfer. I love to travel and experience new places and people. I've hosted, and have been the lucky guest of some great people in Costa Rica and St. Louis, MO.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted three people, and have been the lucky guest of some great people in Costa Rica and St. Louis, MO.

Interests

Yoga, qigong, Toltec wisdom, sustainable food systems, permaculture, being present, taoism

~Meditating~

Activism, CHANGE:

check out:
www.relocalize.net
Start a chapter in your community today to make sure your community will be ready to go local!

**Cooking:
raw, organic, local, vegitarian**

..Yoga..

Organic Farming & Sustainable living:
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Going to concerts of all kinds..~~ from Death Metal to Punk to G Love to Rusted Root.
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~Conversating with strange people about strange things on strange days ~~~

places that seem untouched or unspoiled by man ~~

~~Being Zen~

~Being Passionate~

Attending political rallies

Singing, Oil Painting, Reading

What can I say... I love going to concerts to feel the bass resonating through my soul.... it makes every particle of my being come alive...

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• animals
• singing
• concerts
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• vegan
• yoga
• dieting
• partying
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• cycling
• backpacking
• kayaking
• hunting
• tourism
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

ISHMAEL by Daniel Quinn, ISHMAEL!!! READ IT!!

A Thousand Teachings, Sankara

Upanishads

The World Peace Diet -just picked up
The Omnivore's Dillemma; The Botany of Desire; In Defense of Food
-by the brilliant journalist, Michael Pollan

The list goes on and on, I'm on Reading Social, if you'd like to know more

Anything by: Lao Tse, Nietzsche, Carlos Castaneda, Don Miguel Ruiz

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being in The Jelly
(The Jelly is what surrounds us all ... some people call it "air", but The Jelly describes what it feels like when I've just come out of meditating... everything feels so wonderfully intertwined & connected and alive with energy- so at One)

While meditating, becomeing a white, undefined light in an unending white space, being that space.

On the Earth, Been to many great natural places in the U.S. Most recently backpacking 10 hours to the middle of the jungle of Corcovado Nan'tl Park in Costa Rica!! 1st out of country experience for me! Also kayaking the Florida Keys, mountain biking miles to a remote cabin in the Porkupine mountains, and backpacking in the Weminusche (sp?) Wilderness in Colorado, as well as the hot springs in the outback of Oregon.

Teach, Learn, Share

Here are some quotes that offer succinct lessons to enhance the earthly living experience:

"Which side of the tracks are you on? Both sides, because the world is round."
-Geggy Tah
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"Live simply for others may simply live"
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i dont care what consequence it brings, i been a fool for lesser things ~ Alex POZO
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If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what we do and how to do it…." – Abraham Lincoln.
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"The movement can't be divided because it is atomized -- small pieces loosely joined. It forms, gathers, and dissipates quickly. Many inside and out dismiss it as powerless, but it has been known to bring down governments, companies, and leaders through witnessing, informing, and massing."
-By Paul Hawken, Orion Magazine. Posted May 1, 2007.

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"The only lasting remedy is to improve their standard of living by widening the circle of prosperity." - Robert B. Reich
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"dont eat mckdonalds frys
dont believe their lies! and lets boycott against it and force their demise!
for it aint wize to eat food that is brought to us by suffering lives"
-Alex Pozo

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"We must become the change we want to see."
-- M. Gandhi
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"Everything has diapers on, it smells like it's time for a change."

~SOLE
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"Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity."

-Bill Buford, Heat
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"We're not afraid. We were born to die" Iris Hernandez
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"Republicrat-Democran, One party system"
~Sage Francis
"the rich get richer 'till the poor get educated"
~Sage Francis

"when I say 'hip' you - you say 'shut the fuck up' and I respect it."

-Sage Francis
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Only when a slight fever enters one's mind's eye is one able to see, and navigate the rest to reject the broken system - to guide them into the uncharted waters of revolution. - me

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The health of the planet "needs to be taken as seriously as individual health." - Dr. Weil
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"Imports may be the spice of life, but they should not be the meat and potatoes of a healthy national diet."

"Fair trade, not free trade".

-green party fundamentals
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"Ya need me like the air cuz ya drink me like the water" - G Love

We can't stop here, this is bat country!
-Hunter S. Thompson

Go Out on a Limb, That's where the Fruit is!

What is the Oppposite of Congress? Progress!

SPOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!! - the Tick

Question Everything - Me

"we would be better off replanting our forests and trees and turning deserts into gardens, than in putting up one more solar farm or nuclear plant. We need to tend to the Earth, not continue to build on her." "djnoll - Alertnet

"Let's face it, everyone's selfish, and these foolish notions of "love" could quite possibly just be constructs of weak minded individuals who are more like parasites to the ones they supposedly love than cultivators of spiritual growth."
-Roland Cailles on Nietzsche

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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by it. ~ Buddha

What I Can Share with Hosts

I travel with my husband usually to visit family or eco villages right now. We can share about our experiences while we chill out.

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, Japan, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States