CURRENT MISSION

to be slightly more like ira glass.

ABOUT ME

a bit like Icarus.

PHILOSOPHY

"the surest failure
is the unattempted walk"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

have offered couches, slept on couches, and had fabulous conversations with couchsurfers on all my travels....i even once made a whole radio program proselytizing couchsurfing.

Interests

economics, mystics, poetics, community, radio, anthropology, processes, memory, history's lesser known threads, a good townie bar with dark walls, icicles, rivers, fruit i've never heard of that turns out to be delicious, phylogenies, bourbon, religion/irreligion, north carolina barbecue, dancing salsa, giant bodies of water, cooking, cat naps in patchy sunlight, bikes, hikes, the alchemy of road trips.

• cats
• arts
• photography
• film making
• dancing
• cooking
• beer
• bbq
• yoga
• running
• meditation
• gardening
• guitar
• hiking
• sailing
• martial arts
• anthropology
• economics
• history
• religion
• road trips
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Writers:
lots! some are: Haruki Murakami, Daniel Alarcon, Milan Kundera, Joan Didion, Amartya Sen, Rumi, Rilke, Jose Saramago, David Foster Wallace, Marilynne Robinson, Paul Auster, Ilya Kaminsky, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Salman Rushdie, Hemingway, Marjane Satrapi, Zadie Smith, Denis Johnson, Raymond Carver, Zbigniew Herbert, Pablo Neruda, Rienhold Niehbur, Amartya Sen, E.O. Wilson,...

Music:
ray lamontagne, william elliott whitmore, billie holiday, sigur ros, townes van zandt, radiohead, iron & wine, bobby d., paleo, monadnoc, these united states, joanna newsom, feist, jackson browne, cat power, the tallest man on earth, the yeah yeah yeahs, john coltrane, les nubians, etc.

Movies:
the lives of others, fear and loathing (and generally johnny depp in most things), blue, werner herzog's amazing films, the life aquatic, planet earth

Radio! (I am obsessed, so I had to add this section):
this american life, planet money, on being, the moth radio hour, wnyc's radiolab, saltcast, love+radio, on the media

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

hundreds of prairie sunsets and one giant march.

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn about: Organic gardening and beekeeping. Martial arts, meditation and yoga (or some combination thereof). How you create meaning in your life. Supply chain economics. Really. How to play guitar (or maybe ukelele)! How to sail. Photography and the basics of filmmaking. How to cook more and better. How to be fearless. How to tell a good joke. How to brew beer. How to write a good essay. How to climb.

I can teach a few small things: I'm a native English speaker and always glad to exchange language training. I know a lot about climate change. I can run a small non-profit. I can teach you the basics of audio production. I can cook, bake, and decorate cakes pretty well (have done so professionally). I'm officially a yuppie and have therefore practiced yoga for three years; just enough to be dangerous, but I can teach you what I know. Also, I can teach you to make a paper crane if you give me a few tries to refresh my memory. I can talk for days about watersheds.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Egypt, India, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ghana, United States

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