CURRENT MISSION

To trade my cow for a handful of magic beans

ABOUT ME

I was misplaced at childbirth and discovered by a team of French missionaries years later on an obscure island in the South Pacific. I had taught myself to read English using a manual for sexually transmitted diseases that was washed up from the shore. When they brought me to the mainland I was apprenticed out to a Philipino artist of some repute. My job was to roll his joints and mend his overalls. I remained in that sunlit, oil coated cavern until one day, while buying canvas for my master online, I discovered the couch surfing website. That night, under a waxing orange moon, I stole a dinghy from the dock, set myself a -roving, and haven't thought to stop since.

I have an active imagination.

My passions are infinite but i have an unshakeable affinity with music, libraries, poetry, mountains, the sea, good food, long walks, art galleries, dusty old book shops, food markets, sun-lit gardens and atmospheric bars. (i.e. I am prone to unnecessarily sentimental spouts of nostalgia and idealism.)

I speak to the moon

I made peace with mosquitoes in Brazil, after weeks of blood - thirsty battles and nights haunted by screams and the hissing of deet.

For some reason, the word "follicle" fills me with apprehension...

Every time I edit this little box I realize how much I am changing.

PHILOSOPHY

If the water's sour turn it into wine.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Lots of correspondance with wonderful people across the globe.

Interests

The 16th century scientific revolution, seashells, cultural theory, modern latin american history, european history, emigration, folklore, Pablo Neruda's poetry, Seamus Heaney's poetry,Gabriel Garcia Marquez,graffiti, John Keats' poetry, W.S. Merwin, browsing around art galleries for days on end, reading against the clock, cooking dinner for friends, finding space to create

• arts
• books
• poetry
• folklore
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• reading
• magic
• music
• surfing
• boxing
• history
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Tom Robbins; Isabel Allende; Maeve Brennan; Edna O'Brien; Beryl Markham; Pablo Neruda; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Brian Friel; Annie Proux; Murakami Haruki;

Music obsession is currently focused on all things Icelandic

The fall Backs:
Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Cat Stevens . And, the master, LEONARD COHEN... If you are coming to stay with me please listen to a Leonard Cohen album first... We will understand each other so much better after that

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Infinite, this being the most important: "I have lived with something in common among men" (Pablo Neruda)

Teach, Learn, Share

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/177889

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Poland, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Peru, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay