CURRENT MISSION

"Before I shall have become quite a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time"

ABOUT ME

I'm very loyal to very few people, easily inspired, need alone time to feel ok.
hard-working 3 to 5 hours a day.
I live with my 3 years old daughter, but she spends a lot of weekends with her dad, who is really cool, but we don't live together anymore.
I used to work in advertising for years, quit two years ago and so far I'm very happy about it. I teach childbirth classes, work as a lactation consultant and write for pregnancy/mom/baby magazines and sites.

PHILOSOPHY

ugh.. beauty? resilience? something to do with fluidity?

yeah, right
fluid, beautiful, complicated constellations on a large scale
and a heart on a small scale (and some smarts too)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We've had some amazing couchsurfing guests from several countries. I was a couchsurfer in Croatia and Israel, those were two great trips.
I'd love to travel with daughter when she's a little older.

Interests

pictures, sounds, kindness, exhaustion, irony, hunger, curiosity, beauty, taste, love, care, human touch, books, childbirth, reason, parenthood, collages, friends, alcohol, birthdays, learning, evidence-based everything, the rightness of things, bouncing back older

• books
• beauty
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

ada or ardor (nabokov)
big sur and the oranges of hieronymus bosch
tropic of capricorn (...and most of other h.miller's things)
school for fools (s. sokolov)
rabbit, run; rabbit redux (still amazed at how much love and pity it accommodates)
ina may's guide to childbirth
selma freiberg's the magic years
D. W. Winnicott.
unbearable lightness of being
a heartbreaking work of staggering genius

Music is a moody thing. of Montreal is something i always come back to. lou reed, joan as police woman, bonaparte, fiona apple, sufjan stevens, brazzaville, etc., etc.
i'm not too picky with music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kBfyAQWLaY

and not influenced by films. i hardly remember the ones i liked
À bout de souffle
The Darjeeling Limited
Rosemary's Baby
Tendres cousines
Subway
etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

done: homebirthing,
quitting advertising,
teaching to people who are older than I am
and some very lonely days

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, San Marino, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation

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