CURRENT MISSION

I am on the Compassionate Earth Walk through October 2013. My mission is to peacefully spread awareness and positive thinking around the great ecological issues of our time. As an individual I intend to wake up and grow more and more each day.

ABOUT ME

Right now I am traveling on the Compassionate Earth Walk, which will last through October. In my normal life I am a massage therapist, which gives me my fill of helping others and personal one-on-one contact. That's what I love.

I'm a very open person, and I love listening to other people's stories and learning about all different kinds of people. I love creative and imaginative activities, like writing stories and drawing pictures and making films. Exploration, discovery, and freedom are important to me. I appreciate nature and care deeply about the environment.

People know me for my big full-hearted laugh. I love to be silly and playful with people I know well. I am receptive to others, and often play the role of the listener.

PHILOSOPHY

This world is a wonderful dream. Love it and cherish it, and share this feeling with others. Allow yourself to wake up more fully each day.

People nourish us.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have helped my roommates host couch surfers but have never personally hosted. I think it's a great resource and there is a great culture around it.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have not couch-surfed before. I was hoping to do some couch surfing on my trip to Italy, but that is not how it worked out.

Interests

Meditation
Yoga
Ecology
Sustainability
Spirituality
Music
Art
Film

• arts
• culture
• writing
• environment
• yoga
• meditation
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• surfing
• ecology

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Monty Python, Ferris Beuler's Day Off, Bladerunner...

Directors: Bergman, Fellini, Antonioni, Lynch, Svankmajer...

Music: Radiohead, The Strokes, Charles Mingus, Gnarles Barkley, Thelonius Monk, The Cranberries, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Coltrane, Simon & Garfunkel, Beck...

Books: Flow, horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Leguin, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once I climbed up to to top of Mt. Etna with a couple of friends and looked down into the crater. Wow, that was like being on another planet. The view was completely epic and strange. We didn't see lava but encountered a lot of heat vents and sulphur gas.

I think that's the coolest thing I've seen.

Teach, Learn, Share

It's fun to work on the same drawing with other people. One person draws for five minutes, and then we trade off.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, France, Italy, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States