CURRENT MISSION

Be a socially, environmentally and intellectually conscious world citizen. Actively promoting positive/progressive change in the world for all rather than for the comfort of a handful.

ABOUT ME

I live, study and heuristically teach in Stockholm, Sweden with my lover/honeysuckle/parter/girlfriend/WIFE (!) Malin Borg who I met through couchsurfing more than three years ago. I am a duel citizen to Sweden and the U.S.

About me?????
- peace loving. always learning. always exercising. always trying something new. trying to "be comfortable being uncomfortable."

I ride a bicycle. a lot.

I grew up in multiple places around the world. and with people from around the world. I have three adopted sisters; one sisters from South Korea and two are from Ethiopia and a sister in law from Japan as well. I have a huge happy family... thus I am very comfortable with a lot of company.

PHILOSOPHY

live.learn.love... or be lassoed and loathed by lazy licking leprechauns.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've hosted, toured and been a strong couchsurfing force in Seattle and am beginning to get my feet wet here in Stockholm.

I moved to Stockholm, Sweden in 2009 and have lived here since.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i host, have hosted a bit. i travel when i can. gone to gatherings. Couchsurfed before i knew there was a website... ALL through europe, africa, australia, merely through friends and their friends. The best way to travel.

Interests

Lots of Bicycling around as many cities as possible.

Mind, Body, Soul - working out by means of climbing rocks, running, kayaking, city biking, rowing, blading, weights, diving, yoga, singing, acting, dancing(!), hiking and enjoying nature - which is, of course, one's self (nature can never be abstracted from the self)! getting lost in foreign lands.
MUSIC - I am a musican who studied Sean Nos singing in Ireland, Jazz in America, can play guitar, a little drums, a little piano, tin whistle (not that bad!) and other random instruments. I was singing in a band... but the lead guitarist fell into a coma swinging (and then falling) from trees in Guatamala. Now i sing a lot 'unplugged.' live music and dance.

I LIKE - most people and things. particularly living things. but also non-living things. though, I wouldn't call this a love of 'things' per say, rather a love of 'relationships' and 'interactions:' a sort of Socratic dialogue with life well lived/experienced. cafes. bars that could just as well be cafes.

• singing
• acting
• dancing
• dining
• wine
• exercise
• yoga
• running
• working out
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• live music
• jazz
• guitar
• piano
• drums
• cycling
• hiking
• kayaking
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• rowing
• law
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Big Fan of Books on tape...
Right now I'm reading a fantastic book on sustainable cooking called The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters.

I read a lot of Political & Historical Ecology (in Anthropology/Archeology) ... I tend to have a passion for discovering the multiplicity of perspectives throughout history.

Omnivore's Dilemma, Walden - by Thoreau, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Marx, Eric Wolf, William Blake, Henrik Ibsen, Tom Stoppard plays,
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Kiss and other stories - Anton Chekhov
Shakespeare plays, you name it - I've probably performed it.
The People's History of America by Howard Zinn (Not to be confused with the history of the richest 1-3% over the past 600 years). Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusio Boal.
I love all music. Country... not so much. Bluegrass and old twang yes yes yes.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Diving at The Great Barrier Reef and the west carribean.
Hiked and rock climbed the mountains of Scotland, France, the Cascades, Yosemite, The Grand tetons, The Olymipic, Alaska, Switzerland, Norway, Joshua Tree, Mexico, and sprinted the 'hills' of Ireland :).

sailed the fjords of Norway singing and drinking mead, dove into the cold of the adriatic and ate urchins with wine while the sun was rising off the coast of Korcula, Croatia

Teach, Learn, Share

1) There's a lot of coral bleaching in Everywhere. More in the Caribbean, but lots in Australia too.
2) When you go hiking bring an extra dry shirt with you to change at the top of the mountain so that when you eat your food and start your descent, you won't be cold from sitting still and letting your sweat chill you to the bone.
3) Scotch can keep you warm... so can wool.
4) Norway is expensive. know somebody there and make them your sugarmamma or sugardaddy when you're there.

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Mozambique, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Norway, Sweden

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