CURRENT MISSION

renounce the word "should."

ABOUT ME

I started playing old time banjo this summer and am totally into it. I love to sing and run. Everything will work out. I am often bruised; I love puppet theater. I want people to forget what it feels like to worry. I am very messy.

PHILOSOPHY

people are so risk averse, immobilized by fear of failure, and so distrustful of others. while i live in a world with the same strangers, i have faith that they are good. while i am no less likely to fail, i want to live like it is functionally impossible.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I met these college students in downtown Boston who were doing a school project where they were homeless in Boston for a week and they came and stayed with me. That was great. Then I met a poetry professor in Saratoga Springs and some french folk dancers who were in the process of starting a biodynamic farm. I met a vegan bicyclist who dumpstered me some fresh fruit juice and hemp seed cookies and gave me some home made soy yogurt that he baked in the oven and met his Finnish roommate who only spoke in grunts. I met a wonderful resident of Reno and camped with her boyfriend and his family at Burning Man. Two British guys stayed at my place looking for sky diving after a year of traveling around the world but were impeded by the Cambridge rain.

Interests

banjo. running. programming. building. writing. poetry. clarinet. puppet theater.

• writing
• poetry
• singing
• theater
• vegan
• running
• working out
• traveling
• scuba diving
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

most recently jesca hoop and emmylou harris. also charming hostess, duke ellington, billie holliday, men at work, stan rogers (i.e. sea chanteys), cocorosie, the cocteau twins, mazzy star, laurie anderson, the moldy peaches, neil young, toots & the maytals, joni mitchell...

infinite jest by david foster wallace, stargirl by jerry spinelli, the world according to garp by john irving, anything by haruki murakami, nine stories by j.d. salinger, deschooling society by ivan illich