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Overview

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  • Fluent in English
  • 78, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Montessori teacher/guide, tutor, innkeeper
  • college degree, AMI Montessori Certified, Parent, Life
  • From Madison, Wisconsin, USA
  • Profile 80% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

be a host

ABOUT ME

eclectic, ecological, politically irreverent, introvert/extrovert, respectful, observant, walk in the opposite direction from the crowd at the farmers market, like this quote - "born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world is mad",

PHILOSOPHY

Will get back to you on this.
Perhaps a song by Mason Williams - "Isn't Life Beautiful, Isn't Life Gay, Isn't Life the Perfect Thing to Pass the Time of Day"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

be a good host

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed with family/friends - does that count?
I know when it is time to move on

Interests

Travel, quiet boating, old stone places, working/playing with clay, paints/wood/cloth /found objects, sauntering, trying a hand at hand analysis (palm reading), practicing the piano, dancing (zydeco, Celi, square, Sufi, waltz) scrabble with being able to use the dictionary - a non-competitive/for fun/add the scores together kind of game - the kind I used to play with my daughters.

  • dancing
  • waltz
  • boating
  • reading
  • traveling
  • piano

Music, Movies, and Books

Appreciate the creativity, music, art, activism and thoughts/ words of Wendell Berry, Maria Montessori, Cole Porter, Leonard Cohen, Andy Goldsworthy , Mason Williams, Derrick Jensen, David Byrne, ee cummings, Outermost House/Henry Beston, Ishmael/Daniel Quinn, Barbara Kingsolver, Edward Abbey, Chopin, Matisse, Musse d' Orsay, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, "Waking Ned Devine"," Harold and Maude", "Mrs. Doubtfire" "Tootsie", "Bread and Tulips" and the list goes on.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Birthing/growing with my daughters

Teach, Learn, Share

Herbs, laughter

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