CURRENT MISSION

a 1996 movie where Kurt Russel sports one fierce eye patch

ABOUT ME

“most migrants learn, and can become disguises. Our own false descriptions to counter the falsehoods invented about us, concealing for reasons of security our own secret selves./ A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him, to prove he’s managed it. Playing God again, you could say. Or you could come down a few notches, and think of Tinkerbell; fairies don’t exist if children don’t clap their hands. Or you might simply say: it’s just like being a man./ Not only the need to believed in, but to believe in another. You’ve got it: Love.” - Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

PHILOSOPHY

stay busy and love your business. never stand still.

Interests

music, literature, languages

losing myself in new and old landscapes

fresh blackberries, hail storms and sunshowers, orchids and cherry blossoms, forests

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• literature
• music
• sports
• business
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

some authors and poets I love: Michael Ondaatje, TC Boyle, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jhumpa Lahiri, Marcel Proust, Arthur Rimbaud, Pablo Neruda, Jeanette Winterson

music: a list of artists would be endless, a list of genre would be insufficient, so here is my iTunes on random for a few songs (artist only): The Magnetic Fields, Coltrane, Van Morrison, Louise Attaque, BOB DYLAN, Mirah, Raffi, Jacques Brel, Sigur Rós, Belle & Sebastian, THE NATIONAL, Marvin Gaye, CocoRosie, Woody Guthrie, Delibes (specifically "Dome Epais du Jasmin" from Lakme), etc etc etc

as for film, I want to be Wes Anderson, with a little bit of David Lynch mixed in

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

the blue village of Chefchaouen in northern Morocco

the night sky from around a campfire in a village in southeastern Senegal, while listening to stories of why the sky is so far away.

Teach, Learn, Share

French: if you want to learn it, I want to teach you. I'm a lot better at that than teaching English (which is what I'm paid to do)!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Mexico, Senegal, United States