CURRENT MISSION

I listen now to the changes I need to make, I live in honesty with my flaws and brilliant possibilities, I pose more questions than I can answer, and live the dream of youth that I should not ever stop growing. Because there is so much unfinished work.

ABOUT ME

This life has taught me to be spare with words, to trim thoughts to essential phrases. Give me a chance - such as this - and I might slip into long form prose. I can be poetic. But usually I just seek humor. It's a long history with many tumults, joys, pains, angers and loves. Details on request. I ready now for a mid-life adventure to discover the love, friendship and community my youth never found. I am compassionate, serious but friendly, laugh easily, listen heart-fully, am passionate about economic justice and fairness.

PHILOSOPHY

All that is worth living for is given by others. All that is worth doing is given to others.

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Participate in ...

LIFE: cultivate friendships, to learn, to have fun.

RELATIONSHIPS: by listening, sharing, responding, engaging, conflicting with love. Give what is needed.

COUCH SURFING: I attended the Degrowth (economics) Conference in Montreal, in 2012, with help of Couch Surf hosts.

CURRENT AVAILABILITY: I live in a building where we each have a room, and mine is tiny. Sorry, not enough room.

Intereses

For most of my life I have struggled just to survive and see progress, to resist the enslavement of just-getting-by. Along the way I have read fiction, politics, economics, psychology, and sciences, and dawned slowly to realize how unkind we are to each other, and how unjust the fundamental systems of economics really are. Have been asking the really big question, What factors control the future of humanity? Would like to write a novel to address this question.

• writing
• books
• poetry
• singing
• politics
• surfing
• economics
• history
• psychology

Música, películas y libros

The evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axlerod.
Dr. Zhivago
Guns, Germs and Steel
Collapse, both by Jared Diamond
the Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong
Bruce Perry, and Van der Kolk, on Trauma.

Algo increíble que he hecho

Awestruck by the trees in California. Outraged by Gaza blockade. Humbled and grateful for the gift my partner gave me last month (singing bowl).

Enseña, aprende, comparte

I am opinionated in the arena of writing - what is good and what is poor. But I respect every voice, and teach by offering ideas. I am opinionated in the area of how to live, but I have so much to learn I have only ideas to share.

Qué puedo ofrecer a los anfitriones

Thoughtfulness and conversation. Poetry.

Países que he visitado

Canada, United States

Países en los que he vivido

United States