CURRENT MISSION

Mission? Life has a mission?

ABOUT ME

The Reader's Digest Condensed version of my situation is:
I am a fourth year philosophy student struggling to remain committed to formal education and wishing I had chosen to be an artist. I am much more interested by life and people as they are in the world rather than theoretical constructs about those realities.

If I could spend all of my time as I wish I would simply walk around, looking at things and talking with people who are equally amazed.

PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy of the Day: Death to Philosophy!
(Long live Physics!)

Why do I live my life??
That's a silly question. Because I can! And must!

Feelings? Thoughts?
Yes, I have many of them.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've had the pleasure of surfing on couches in Paris, Avignon and Leiden now. Hoping to reciprocate when I return to Canuckistan.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Newbie.

Interests

Cycling to exotic lands.
Climbing Mountains. Swimming in salt water.
Peeling labels off of beer bottles.
The connections between early modern philosophy and natural science and our current conceptions of "nature".
Blake and Rimbaud's poetry.

• birds
• poetry
• education
• beer
• cycling
• surfing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• teaching
• physics
• science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Bob Dylan, Miss Joplin, Of Montreal, Bach's Goldburg Variations, John Prine, Black Mountain, The Talking Heads, Neil Young and Tommy Geurrero.

Books: Songs of Innocence and Experience (Blake),
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Proust), Illuminations et Une Saison en Enfer (Rimbaud), Poetry of Eva Salzman, The Water Babies (Kingsley), Dharma Bums (Kerouac), Faust (Goethe), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Safran Foer), The Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), Ethics (Spinoza), Wisdom and Metaphor (Zwicky)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have seen flocks of birds moving through the air as one being.

That's amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

I didn't know I was signing up for MORE school!

Countries I’ve Visited

Nicaragua, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Canada