CURRENT MISSION

to connect with what's around me

ABOUT ME

ok, so: i'm easy-going and easily entertained...doesn't take much. i like being rowdy but i'm also a home-body, depending on my mood. (ok, i'm moody, dammit). i enjoy coffee shops, dirty bars, good people without pretenses, and spontaneity. um, and i'm a dork.

PHILOSOPHY

whitman's Leaves of Grass is my credo. acceptance. non-attachment. expect nothing, be ready for anything. i don't worry about much. and i'm really beginning to understand that life is about connecting...with everything around you.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i sleep on friend's couches all the time, does that count? in st pete, orlando, gainesville, kissimmee, ocala, south carolina, and new orleans. i like couches.
and i finally have some CS experiences! drove to austin and dallas just because i'd never been to texas; met some amazing people who renewed my faith in humanity. and yeah, slept on their couches.

Interests

i love plants and flowers, veggies and gardening! i tried learning the violin but have recently moved on to DRUMS! (woo! bang bang a drum!) i'm into fitness and nutrition, i love art: including but not limited to photography, painting, poetry, classic novels, museums, antiques etc. love history and the stories that comprise it. love music, philosophy, strong coffee, and books. i crochet and can make a bad ass blanket or beer hive (that's a coozie with a cool name).

• arts
• books
• poetry
• photography
• beer
• coffee
• fitness
• gardening
• flowers
• crochet
• painting
• music
• violin
• drums
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Tom Robbins is my new favorite author; how did I not read him sooner?! Loved Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. I really like the classics: Shakespeare, CS Lewis, Tom Wolfe, Edgar Allen Poe, John Steinbeck, Stephen Crane. Love poetry, especially Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman and the Soul of Rumi. I read a lot of biographies: Edward Bok, Ben Franklin, Hillary Clinton, and on and on. Philosophy, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, the Dalai Lama. Gregory Maquire's Wicked and Mirror, Mirror were awesome. yeah...i'm always reading something...and taking suggestions.

music: modest mouse, radiohead, yeah yeah yeahs!, ani difranco, tool, a perfect circle, waylon jennings, patsy cline, hank williams, mendelsohnn, dvorak, ella fitzgerald, clutch, puscifer, aesop rock, g love, american bang, architecture in helsinki, beck, black eyed peas, bob marley, willie nelson, weezer, the toadies!, sublime, static-x, ronnie magri, scissor sisters, rage against the machine, northern state, blah blah blah... all kinds a shit!! and almost any live or local music

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