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Overview

  • 2 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Sign Language - American, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese
  • 43, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • namer, copywriter, working to extricate myself as much as...
  • Public school, baby: PHS, SRJC, UC Berkeley
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Be.

ABOUT ME

I'm a country girl by birth, a city girl by experience, a world girl by choice, and creative girl by heart.

I left my job in San Francisco a couple of years ago, and now freelance to support my writing and traveling.

I am many things. Gregarious and quiet, love social scenes and being alone, and am still searching out what it means to be human, and how I'm meant to live this life. I am incredibly respectful and easy-going, and can sleep anywhere there's a fair amount of quiet. I will bring you candy.

PHILOSOPHY

Compassion, compassion, compassion - sense of humor, sense of humor, sense of humor

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm just getting started!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm just getting started!

Interests

Writing, travel, reading, yoga, e.e.cummings, avocados, dancing, doing cartwheels, laughing, learning (definitely learning), performance art, stage

  • arts
  • writing
  • poetry
  • performing arts
  • dancing
  • yoga
  • reading
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • camping
  • gymnastics
  • ecology
  • freelancing
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - anything! Particularly blue grass, electronica, classical, world, pop...
I will stick my nose into any book. I read poetry, philosophy, spiritual classics (Tao, Bible, Bahagavad Gita, what-have-you), contemporary fiction, McSweeney's, AdBusters magazine. Right now in the middle of Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones.
Not a big movie-goer, but love The Godfathers, Clueless, and Waking Life

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Actually made it to 27... phew!

Teach, Learn, Share

Things I know about (in various proportions:)
Branding, Marketing, Naming, Copywriting, Creative Writing, Linguistics, Gymnastics, mental health, yoga, travel through Vietnam, Turkey, Morocco, Spain, Belize, Southwest + Northwest US, camping, hiking, how to make a killer mojito

Things I'd love to learn:
Anything. I'm fascinated by most anything new. Have a special desire to learn more re: poetry, memoir, scriptwriting (stage), spirituality, science, ecology, nature, farming, language,,,,

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