CURRENT MISSION

i run The Puzzlement Laboratory where we investigate how our differences can be invitations to community through hands-on, participatory Arts & Crafts projects.

ABOUT ME

i have an extraordinary and crazy life that i have worked hard to create.

Have been doing small and large personal art projects and crafting participatory community based Arts & Crafts projects.

The vehicle i am building is called The Puzzlement Laboratory!

Prefer the use of they/them/their pronouns.

My mother explained to me when i was quite young that

"Gender is a spectrum and that some people are uncomfortable with how they were gendered at birth. They try to change their bodies to better reflect how they feel but are usually disappointed because it is not just their bodies that need to change but society."

Yep! This was when i was 7 or 8 years old so i grew up with a very different sense of what is possible and challenging. Currently "spectrum" is the parlance within the transgender community.

The Body Is Drag For The Soul

PHILOSOPHY

i have really accepted that i can't do everything though i can live my life as intensely and as purposefully as possible and i can appreciate vicariously other people who do the same!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

For many years i played host to probably hundreds of people. this experience allowed me to learn how to be a good guest when i started to travel. i started touring with workshops and presentations almost 20 yrs ago and i have had many wonderful experience. Asking about morning routines of the various housemates has saved a lot of grief.

Interests

permaculture, natural building, alternative economies, the spaces in-between, Arts & Crafts esp. crocheting, knitting, cross stitching, baking, eating!

• arts
• baking
• crafts
• traveling
• knitting

Music, Movies, and Books

books by Octavia Butler; The Book of Salt; Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body; Was; Being Dead

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelled 2004- 2005 from chicago to chiapas, mex. then down through central america, then ecuador, peru and then 4 months in Argentina, then to england, paris, barcelona, croatia, italy and now israel and palestine returning to north america all for less than $8000. In 2006 pent 5 months on La Palma, The Canary Islands helping to create and facilitate a Permaculture Residency program.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, United States