Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet.

Interests

books, trees, tea
watersheds, forest ecology
language

• books
• knitting
• cycling
• ecology

Music, Movies, and Books

The films of Agnes Varda, Godard, Tarkovsky, Louis Malle (L’Inde Phantôme)

Everything is Illuminated; The Big Lebowski; Wings of Desire; Amelie; The World According to Garp; El espíritu de la colmena

and a large assortment of documentaries

Nabokov, Borges, Proust, Kundera, Hesse
Henry Miller, Miranda July, Marie-Claire Blais
The Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Forests
Poems of: Rilke, The French Symbolists, Allen Ginsberg, Williams (W.C.), sometimes Whitman, Annie Dillard, Szymborska, Milosz

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

+ The quick and quiet miracle of foaling in the middle of the night (I spent several years of my childhood on a horse farm and never before or after have I felt more aware of and involved in the cycle of life and death)
+ I've driven through the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and walked around the crumbling, desolate cemetery at Wounded Knee, seeing and feeling through the greedy lens of a tourist the results of the large-scale, centuries-long colonization that everyone seems to have forgotten about.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach English, French, a little bit of Russian. I also know how to knit basic things like scarves and hats and bags. I have a library of about 600 books which I'd love to share.