We are a 30-something queer couple with kids in the home part time. We are extroverts and people-lovers who have both built our lives around making the world a better place in whatever ways we can. We are both post-Christian, active in social justice and LGBTQAI circles. Notwithstanding, we are gentle conversationalists, enthusiastic learners and artistic souls. We love swapping stories and contemplations.
We love COMMUNITY. We have both spent time in intentional communities and now seek to foster community-lite by sharing what we have with open hands whenever we can.
We value maintaining healthy rhythms for ourselves individually, as a couple, family, city and humanity.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING:

We love to share our home, either by offering a warm and cozy space for more independent travelers or by a more present hosting including sharing meals and making connections. We host as we are able, specifically when the kiddos are at their mom's.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hers: Surfed my way across the US, met several hosts and fellow travelers. Loved every minute of it. Thanks you guys!

Interests

Hers: People! Cheese. American Sign Language (fluent), Art, Scrapbooking, Texture and color. Tattoos and piercings, alternative sub-cultures.
His: Also art, female voices, tiny houses, sustainability, ethical eating, gentleness, Typefaces, cereal.
Theirs: Intersectionality, LGBTQAI interests, TRAVEL TRAVEL TRAVEL. Processing new ideas, different cultures. Observing art and beauty everywhere. Finding the thread of Story in every thing around. COFFEE!

• arts
• coloring
• beauty
• tattoos
• piercings
• cheese
• coffee
• clothing
• traveling
• scrapbooking
• drawing
• track and field
• history
• sign language

Music, Movies, and Books

Books-
Hers: " Perelandra" by C.S. Lewis, All things Pratchett, P.G. Wodehouse, Jerry Spinelli, Lois Lowry.
His: "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," "Mossflower," HP, Bone.

Music-
Hers: Shoegaze music from the mid to late 90s, Psalters, Nirvana, Eliza Rickman, mewithoutYou, Woven Hand, good ol' classic rock, Johnny Cash of course.
His:. Anni DiFranco, basically,
TV-
Hers: Supernatural, Firefly, Star Trek (OS), Dr Who (because bow ties are cool), Sherlock, IT Crowd, Big Bang Theory, Futurama, X Files,
His: Battlestar Galactica, Arrested Development.
Theirs:Sense8, Orphan Black, OitNB, Girls,

Movies-
Hers: Mirror Mask, Stardust, Waking Life, Batman Begins, Serenity, Iron Man, Anything MST3Ked, The Crow, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Snatch
His: Harry Potter, Little Women, Les Mis.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sitting atop a cliff in the Aran Islands, Ireland, hearing the ocean waves crash below. I laid on my belly and scooted all the way to the edge so my arms could dangle over the vast drop. My heart was racing and I could not look away from the power of the water. Because, earlier that week...

I was at the Giant's Causeway, N. Ireland. I walked all the way out to the end if the jutting rocks and stood there, watching the waves roll in, gain momentum and crash past me while I stood dry above them. It was a bizarre feeling of being fully immersed yet fully removed, since I was farther out than the breaking point, yet standing on solid ground. I was so fascinated I lost all track of time. With a shock I realized the tide was coming in. Pictures of Waterlilly tied to a rock waiting for Peter Pan to save her flashed through my head, so I turned quickly and headed for shore. Halfway up the rocks I paused to smile and wave at my much more removed older sister/traveling companion... and glanced back seaward JUST in time to see a WALL of water coming at me! I just had time to brace my feet in the rocks before the wave crashed over me, instantly soaking through to my skin, leaving me ice cold, shivering, laughing as hard as I've ever laughed, and SO grateful I wasn't washed out to sea! Never before or since have I so thoroughly felt the power of the water, of waves, of the tide. Meanwhile my sister, high and dry, captured it all in a fantastic series of photos, proving the wave was every bit as tall as I felt it was, and I really am a tiny human who should not overestimate my own power. And the awe and laughter continued that night when we went out to eat at a lovely seaside restaurant, me wearing my last remaining dry clothes-- a summer dress over a sweater and my PJ pants!

Teach, Learn, Share

Hers: I'm fluent in American Sign Language. I would LOVE to have a Scrap Booking session with you. We can alter some T-shirts! I whip up a great pot of Stone Soup pasta.
His: The history of hip hop, trans* issues, figure drawing

Countries I’ve Visited

Ecuador, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States

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