CURRENT MISSION

trying to stay away from the missionaries

ABOUT ME

32 year old interested in mythology; arts and culture [ish]; music (!); fine, self-prepared dining; leisurely drinking and porch-sitting. always goin somewhere, rarely know where, sometimes don't even know why. but knowing isn't everything, you know. i'm a big fan of vibrant conversations/interactions and people who express their thoughts and convictions with passion (and compassion). I am a gatherer of knowledge, experience, and other materially worthless things, and so I'm fairly easy to please.

PHILOSOPHY

live, let live, do no harm (or as little as possible), be mindful, have respect for even the smallest things because they're almost always essential parts of the largest things. engage the senses, learn from both sound and silence.. life is the biggest work in progress we´ll ever encounter!

a personal philosophy is the whole human being - adaptations and adjustments included - moving through the world. there should be as little separation between thought and practice, mind and body, as possible. difficult, but what isn't that's worth working toward?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i try to give back as much as possible! cooking, tips on wildlife management, documentary watching, basic shoe repair, mobile refrigeration, trabajador de esquinas oscuras..

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

milagros y maravillas

Interests

music, 'the arts', playing music, improvising (in all theatres of life, but not necessarily in theatres), cooking, collecting artifacts and trinkets, the natural and cultural worlds, psychology, mythology, natural history, ecology, extreme weather, some kind of higher power or divine organizational system, conversation, conservation, curiosity

• wildlife
• arts
• culture
• architecture
• documentaries
• dining
• cooking
• cheese
• drinking
• music
• ecology
• history
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

yeah movies, yes music, yep to books. experimental, weird, beautiful, werner herzog, bill callahan, john berger, arundhati roy, david lynch, jim jarmusch, giant sand, julio cortazar, eduardo galeano, virginia woolf, mekons, atahualpa yupanqui

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

lost in rainy hills in a technicolor haze, eating Now and Laters

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm TEFL certified and can share English lessons with my hosts (less relevant here in N. America)! I will most certainly cook for/with you, and share with you as much music as you'd like. I want to learn about common phrases, cities within cities, local secrets, belief systems, parques nacionales, botanical gardens and architecture.. hidden courtyards where quinoa with fresh cheese and aji picante is served from a blanketed basket by a woman in braids and billowing skirts

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Germany, India, Peru, Portugal, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, Nepal, United States

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