CURRENT MISSION

empowerment .... understanding love and compassion & putting it into practice

ABOUT ME

40 years & counting, non-smoker, extrovert but actually rather shy, Queer, pro-sexual, learning lessons ...

even though I have a strong tendency to keep to myself, I welcome a chance for exchange and find new insights and learn something else, whatever it is that we have to tell each other.

PHILOSOPHY

use your senses to make sense!
freedom := fulfillment X movement X choice
exploration rather than exploitation ...

"that nameless softness, that makes the human human"
Christa Wolf, from 'Kassandra' (also available in English)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been helped tremendously by people in the past, so in that sense it is very easy to give in return and pass on the goodies :-)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

it happened to me several times that I got to stay over with people, even in places like New York, even for a longer time, and I also had people come and stay at the place that I live at now.

general conclusion for now:
what works for one person does not work at all for the other, but unless you don't try (safely) you won't know.

Interests

utopia, developing alternative lifestyles, sexuality, dance dance dance, Queer-studies, history, American 20th century art / literature, music, languages

• arts
• literature
• theater
• dancing
• cooking
• painting
• music
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

lots of that:
The Dark Crystal, Orlando, Star-Trek, The Gods Themselves (Isaac Asimov), The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Leguin), The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood), Tender Buttons (Gertrude Stein) Ecotopia (Ernest Kallenbach),
Eurythmics, Les Rita Mitsouko, Nina Hagen, the b-52s, Steve Reich, Béla Bartók, György Ligeti

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i have been forgiven in situations in which I was sure it would all go down the drain
i've experienced some wonderful people in my life

otherwise: \
"One of the pleasantest things those of us who write or paint do is to have a daily miracle. It does come." (Gertrude Stein) And guess what ,it's true :-)

Teach, Learn, Share

any of the languages I've learned (about)

bodywork & body-wisdom:
Zen-Shiatsu stretches, Developmental Movement,
Kinetic Awareness(R)

dance in public spaces
Open Form Composition, Open Strategies

5-element cooking
how you can hand-clean your dishes with a minimum of water / water-recycling

12-tone music, 20th century art
Gertrude Stein & her work
Judson Dance Theater
Postmodernism in dance
Esthetics / aisthesis

some dealings with computers
(can type 10 finger blind)

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