CURRENT MISSION

Sunshine seeking!

ABOUT ME

I am a fun loving person who loves to think critically, smile and laugh a lot, ride my bike and make new friends. I like to see the silly side of most things and am always down for a good adventure.

PHILOSOPHY

I try to be nice, think critically, love freely and laugh often!

These quotes mean a lot to me:

"put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard" -Anne Sexton

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. " â

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first couch experience landed me in the middle of the desert in Taos with some nice people, a hardcore metal show, a giant bonfire, and an Earthship home. Needless to say, I was enamored with the concept and plan to CouchSurf as much as possible...

Interests

bike riding, photography, reading, solving the Rubik's cube, knitting, menstrual activism, music, potlucks, finding new river spots to swim in, woodburning, skygazing, stenciling, tea, fixing bikes, sledding, making snowforts, gardening, blowing bubbles, waterfalls

• photography
• cooking
• gardening
• reading
• juggling
• knitting
• music
• cycling
• swimming
• hitchhiking
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Weekend, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Whale Rider, Delicatessen, City of the Lost Children, Bad Taste, Dead Alive, Princess Bride, The Royal Tenenbaums, Secretary, The Professional, Lost in Translation, Little Miss Sunshine, But I'm a Cheerleader, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Harold and Maude, The Princess and the Warrior, Hard Candy, Rushmore, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Sommerstorm, Taste of Tea, Arrested Development, l'iceberg, Persepolis, The Fall, Let the Right One In...

Music, some of my favs: Joanna Newsom, Nick Drake, Blow, Asha Ali, Beck, Thao, Mates of State, Beirut, Feist, Mirah, Coco Rosie, Yo La Tengo, Broadcast, The Evens, Flaming Lips, Iron and Wine, Kaki King, M. Ward, The Knife, Bob Dylan, Luna, Peaches, Pavement, Eartha Kitt, Rilo Kiley, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, T Rex, Johnny Cash, Lykke Ly...and then some... i love music.

Books: favorite children's: Pippi Longstocking books, Hello Cruel World, The Little Prince, The Rebellious Alphabet, The Lorax and The Sneeches, The Arrival, Tales from Outer Suburbia, The Tin Forest, Princess Smartipants, Paper Bag Princess, Why War is Never a Good Idea, The Monster at the End of this Book, Castle Waiting, Robot Dreams, Tale of Despereaux, The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck, Esperanza Rising, The Little Yellow Leaf, Castle Waiting, The Moomin series and anything by Tove and Lars Jansson

all else: Fun Home, Persepolis 1 and 2, Local, all sorts of graphic novels, Written on the Body, Are Prisons Obsolete, Slaughterhouse Five, The Collector, They Weep on my Doorstep, Name All the Animals, Primate Visions, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Pathologies of Power, The Beautiful, Of Lamb, Whipping Girl and lots more ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

trees in the fall always make me gasp, meteor showers too, when i bike really fast down giant hills in the dark, snow, sledding, jumping off cliffs into water, hitchhiking and the field of fireflies i frequent

Teach, Learn, Share

can share: knitting, juggling, how to solve a Rubik's cube, how to play in the rain, how to tune up your bike and do some repairs

want to learn: new knitting skills (perhaps how to knit a sweater-vest), how to make all appliances bike-powered, how to cook more sauces and expand my cupcake knowledge, Spanish

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, Denmark, Estonia, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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