CURRENT MISSION

candid convivial complementation

ABOUT ME

Singing, narrating, listening, conspiring, inspiring, wordwhimsying, folkdancing, cooking, foraging, hobbit-hole ornamenting, deadlifting, stoneheaving, cycling, land-striding, cold-sea swimming, excavating (bins), meadmaking, feasting, hosting unforgettable evenings.
Also: Taking care of (and befriending) the relic embodied envivified people; artesan archiving; creative writing; snooping and sneaking after midnight; carrying car-loads of stuff w/o a car; mingling Nature+Culture.

My work involves the Eurasian, Alpine & Atlantic languages / peoples, but also folk-cultures/languages all over. I fit into every social class, and have worked a job or had a hobby that gives me an in with almost any kind of person. My current job is in mentoring, supporting and home-providing for people with broad-spectrum disabilities.

PHILOSOPHY

work out every word, create story, turn tales into living history

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hosted at International & Lothlorien Co-op in Wisconsin, and near the Irish Sea in Aberystwyth. I like CS as a conduit to exploring intentional communities and domestic subsistence.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have hosted twice in Madison Community Co-ops, once in Wales, once near the Yahara River in Madison Wisconsin. I have sponsored my own guests in spare or shared rooms at Madison Community Co-op houses in Madison.

Interests

pre-industrial acumen and awareness. delight in life & people. magnanimity. grit. romance. subsistent, paleolithic and permacultural thriving and living. mythopoeic theist writers. mediaeval vision, desire, awe, humility. primal arms & strike-wrastling. folk heroism. local, pastoral and regional revivalism. home and domesticity (true government). North Atlantic Eurasian Uralian Teutonic Celtic and Proto-American languages, myths, lifestyles. The North. draught horses, mules, ponies, lamb-flocks, goat-milk, milkmaids, Renaissance women, beekeeping, conifers, Christmas, herbalism, alchemy, meat-rending, firemaking, smokemaking. Monk-aged, Imperial and bourbon-barrel oak-cask ales. Spicy wine. Alpine & Mediterranean cuisine. English seasonal songs, Scottish vagabond / pastoral ballads, Appalachian folkways, Broadsides, Scandinavian mediaeval ballads, Elder Edda, Irish Sean-nós, Hungarian/Romanian revels & jubilation, Contra dance,Nordic dance, Border Morris.

Making hometurf, routine, intimacy, physical health, life-style|work, belonging, community & lifelong friendships in both Europe and States. I feel dually at home in the Upper Midwest and in Europa.

• animals
• horses
• arts
• writing
• singing
• dancing
• cooking
• wine
• working out
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• swimming
• history
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS:
_The Silmarillion_, _Phantastes_ (George MacDonald), _The Poetic Edda_, _ Íslensk Orðsifjabók_, _Well at the World's End_ (W.Morris), _The Adventures of Tom Bombadil_, _Marvelous Land of Snergs_ (E.A. Wyke-Smith), _Lost Country Life_ (Dorothy Hartley).

MOVIES:
Kristin Lavransdatter, Rasputin, the Mad Monk, Babette's Feast, Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Gran Torino, A River Runs Through It, Under the Greenwood Tree, Utlaginn, Watership Down, The Field, The Wicker Man 1973, Rob Roy, Apocalypto, Shadow of a Doubt, Karhozat (Damnation), The Cat Piano, Nausica of the Valley of the Wind, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Wintersleepers, Last of the Mohicans, Herz aus Glas, Coot Club, Through the Shadowlands, The Dead (James Joyce), Seraphim Falls, Fast Runner Atanarjuat, Alfred Hitchcock, The Innocents (1961, Jack Clayton)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

lived in tiny tent under rabbit warren above open North Atlantic in mountains of northwest Ireland. Spoke three languages, sang, mingled there. Stone hostel there might be most welcoming and unique in Europe:

http://www.uniqueirishhostels.com/http:__www.uniqueirishhostels.com/Dooey_Hostel.html

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you many songs, languages, dances, stories. I'm resourceful, playful, creative, problem-solving, very present in the moment.

I'd love to learn more about plants, stars, sea, cooking, animals, herbs, foraging, art, or anything for which people have passion/devotion and relish to share.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Folk dance
Foreign languages
Outdoor foraging
Musical singing and storytelling bonfires
Madison communities connected to the rest of the world
Life in Madison on bike and foot

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Denmark, England, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, United States, Wales

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