CURRENT MISSION

to share my love for real food with real people, to learn about biodynamic agriculture, to improve my Spanish, to seek understanding, and to make positive changes with the time, energy, and resources available to me

ABOUT ME

I love people. I am a photographer, a food lover, a reader and an adventurer. I love conversations with respectful people who can teach me about their beliefs of all shapes and sizes. I am always looking for good energy and new experiences. I try to see bad situations as an opportunity for action instead of a reason to complain, and I'm always looking for people who can share and strengthen that sentiment.

PHILOSOPHY

"Men, being participants in and not only observers of their form of life or culture, can understand the working of human wills or purposes in a way they can never hope to understand the working of nonhuman phenomena..."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to help build a sense of friendship and intimate community though the tools we have in this big, fast, technological dawn of the supercentury...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Mostly in Europe... I couchsurfed in Paris and it was a great experience. I've also been hosted in Rotterdam, an equally good experience. And I had a surfer stay with me for a few nights when I was living in Utrecht... but I'd like to try couchsurfing in the States. I've met a few Couchsurfers in Oklahoma and I hope we get some more activity through here -- I'm always ready for somebody to ask me to take them to my favorite little shops around town!

Interests

Food and cooking. Biodynamic agriculture. Photographs, in all their forms, shapes, and sizes. The machines that make them. Travel. Learning languages, especially Spanish. Reading history, literature, and things that fall in between. Bookmaking. But most of all, people.

• animals
• culture
• literature
• photography
• education
• dining
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• adventure races
• agriculture
• teaching
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

My interests in movies, music, and books span areas too big to fit into one lifetime, but that doesn't stop me from trying. ...Kendrick Lamar, Erykah Badu, Jolie Holland, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Lil Wayne, UGK, Main Attrakionz, Radiohead, The Beatles, Miles Davis, T.I., Outkast, Goodie Mob, !!!, Manu Chao, Beck, Nicki Minaj, Woody Guthrie, The Roots, Tom Waits, Ben Folds Five, Devendra Banhart, Wilco, The White Stripes, Cat Power, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mercedes Sosa, Cocorosie, The Kinks, The Fugees, The Flaming Lips, Rage Against the Machine, My Morning Jacket, Andrew Bird, Akron/Family, Deerhoof, Muddy Waters... Some authors to mention: My main man Wendell Berry, Roberto Bolaño, Sandra Cisneros, Salman Rushdie, Vladimir Nabokov, Gabriel Garci­a Marquez, Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, James Howard Kunstler, Anthony Burgess, Milan Kundera, Fyodor Doestoevsky, Arundhati Roy, Saul Bellow, Ana Castillo, Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida. Movies? Dead Man, Harold and Maude, The Royal Tenebaums, Y tu mama tambien

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living and traveling in Europe for a year was amazing. I was also in Santiago, Chile during the crazy earthquake they had in 2010...

Teach, Learn, Share

I am currently working in farm-based education, showing kids how to take care of animals and make their own food. I can teach anyone photography skills - everything from using cameras to developing film and printing pictures, darkroom to digital, everything goes!!! I can also teach a bit of Spanish.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, United States

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