CURRENT MISSION

Look for beauty in everything you see. Where you cannot find it, create it.

ABOUT ME

The problem is, it's not all about me . . .

PHILOSOPHY

Look for beauty in everything you see; where you cannot find it, CREATE it.

I follow Milton's philosophy from Paradise Lost as well:

The mind is a place in itself:
It can make a heav'n of Hell,
a hell of Heav'n.

For the most part, I think we create our own destinies (with a little help or hindrance from others).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have just begun, so I have not participated yet, but I am looking forward to meeting people for coffee, etc., and getting to know them.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

No real experience yet, but I am working on it. :-)

Interests

Anything outdoors: biking, hiking, walking, swimming.

Expanding my mind: reading, sharing ideas with others
Traveling . . . love it.

• beauty
• coffee
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy

Music: U2: Rattle and Hum, The Joshua Tree, War, Achtung,, Baby, Pop . . . a band who doesn't just get their kicks getting rich and being rock stars . . . they give back to the planet.

Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Stevie Nicks, New Order, and on and on . .

Books/Poetry: Jude, the Obscure, The Life of Pi, Paradise Lost, Lyrical Ballads . .

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing thing I have ever done is to give birth to three amazing and wonderful souls who will share their spirits with the world.

Other things I have done that are not really amazing, but a little adventurous: lived in a park in Dallas for two weeks in January 1980 (it was cold and actually snowed); hitchhiked from Dallas, TX to Lubbock, TX.

The most amazing things I have seen: forests in East Texas-- it's amazing to walk through them and to be enveloped by the scents of the earth, vegetation, trees, and water and to know that the spirits of the past are watching over you; Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris; the White Cliffs of Dover.

Places I have traveled: Paris, London, Stratford-upon- Avon, The Lake District (England), Canterbury, Gretna Green, Scotland, Edinburgh, and a whole host of states in the US.

Teach, Learn, Share

Meet others and grow.

We are all tied together through one universe, connected by a single thread of spirit, good and bad.

Let's make the world a better place by growing and trying to understand our universal connection to one another and the planet.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Mexico, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States