Mild and merciless. Endlessly vagrant. Subject, lover and agent of the Nameless Wildness. While some people travel to find themselves, I travel to lose myself. The attachments, habits, comforts, routines, relationships that defined me are all in the past. He who is not busy being born is busy dying and what I do day by day: leting go of my home to feel at home anywhere, letting go of my country to become a citizen of the world, letting go of my education to learn all the things they never taught me, letting go of the old idea of who I am to encounter an unknown, undreamed of way of being.

My passion is beautiful interaction between people and the planet, beginning with human community and expanding through to ecology and the full diversity of the arts of living a fruitful and joyful life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet people, laugh and be merry. To discover the radical genius of my generation. To continue the conversation between each and everyone about what it means to be human, to have a fruitful life on this earth, and how to overcome the disease of fear and dishonesty that plagues civilisation with courage and truth.

Interests

Astronomy, world history, psychedelic and medicinal plants, geology, permaculture, foraging, practical philosophy and the domestic arts, body-based psycho-social therapy, childcare and education, traditional knowledge and culture, communication, architecture and the built-environment, open-source ecology, dance, history and literature, mutual-aid and co-operative social relationships, self-reliance and resilience, are what interests me deeply in my mission make some small but concrete contribution towards a global movement away from the present suicidal civilization towards a sane and beautiful way of living on this earth.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

'The Nguni Sound' from South Africa and Swaziland, also jazz from my country such as the Blue Notes, Brotherhood of Breath, Abdullah Ibrahim, Johnny Dyani, Dudu Pukwana, pop music like Miriam Makeba the Mahotella Queens, Shangaan Disco, etc

Mbira music from Zimbabwe, Kora from Senegal, Afrofunk from Nigeria, Pygmy polyphony and Rhumba from Congo and central Africa, Marina from Madagascar, etc

Blues, rock, jazz, contemporary classical, experimental and folk music from the US, polyphonic choral music from medieval and rennaisance Europe

Classical music from India, Iran, Indonesia, and elsewhere

Generally, folk and traditional music from around the world

Books:

Emma Goldman, Mustapha Khayati, Laura Riding, Lao Tzu, William Carlos Williams, Chuang Tzu, Ford Maddox Ford, Kenneth Rexroth, Bertold Brecht, Freddy Perlman, Wilhelm Reich, YB Yeats, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Phillip Whalen, Lew Welch, Guy Debord, Kenn Knabb, Raoul Vaneigem, Octavio Paz, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, Ursula Le Guinn, Doris Lessing, Henry Miller, George Orwell, Marx, Kropotkin, Engels, Bakunin, etc

Movies:

One Sixth of the World by Dziga Vertov
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (and everything else) by Guy Debord
Intolerance by GW Griffiths
Seven Samaurais by Akira Kurosawa
Summer with Monica (and almost everything else) by Ingmar Bergman
8 1/2 by Fellini
Los Olvidades by Luis Bunuel

etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Love someone well

Teach, Learn, Share

All the time

What I Can Share with Hosts

Laughs

Countries I’ve Visited

France, India, Mozambique, Swaziland, United Arab Emirates, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa, Spain