CURRENT MISSION

Adapt to the changes ... Focus - so I can see clearly what's here ... Simplify, Simplify, Simplify

ABOUT ME

Born in Michigan but grew up in the swamps of Louisiana. Lived in Houston, chicago, Lexington, Birmingham and since 2000 New Orleans. Student of psychology, philosophy, poetry of the heart, skepticism, science. - I love people - very much a social animal - have been a work-a-holic for many years but now I'm finally making time for other pursuits - favorite pastimes are New Orleans Music Scene, poetry (http://poetry.meetup.com/467/) Philosophy Cafe and hosting couch surfers?.

current favorite quotes:

"Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again. "
-Chinese inscription cited by Thoreau in Walden

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be. ~Rumi

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness— Mark Twain (The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It)

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein

If you think you're too small to have an impact try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. Anita Roddick

"I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big successes. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride." William James

"I shall pass through this world but once.
Any good, therefore, that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.
Let me not defer nor neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again."
~~Stephen Grellet~~

"Grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the ones I can, the wisdom to know it's ME." Author Unknown

PHILOSOPHY

It's all good !!! ... each of us is on an exciting journey ... and each journey is sacred to its traveler ... I love my journey and I love to hear people tell about theirs.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hope to frequently borrow the couches of members of couchsurfing.org and to offer my couch. I live in the French Quarter, the heart of the New Orleans entertainment district and will be a great host with an excellent location for my guests.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My friend Alex Mercedes told me about the couchsurfing community and I have enjoyed the company of some of her guests and now after nine months of hosting can say that I have had nothing but positive experiences having hosted about 40 guests. Great baseball players batt between 300 and 400. I'm batting 1000 with CouchSurfing.org

Interests

people and what they value and how they differ and what they have learned about being here.

• animals
• writing
• poetry
• traveling
• music
• baseball
• psychology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

will take some time to fill this one in: BOOK-Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. BOOK-Varieties of Religious Experience by William James. BOOK-The Essential Rumi translations by Coleman Barks. BOOK-Candide by Voltaire. BOOK-Flatland by Edwin Abbott. BOOK-Saturday by Ian Mcewan MOVIE-To Kill a Mockingbird. MOVIE-The Oxbow Incident. MOVIE-A Beautiful Mind. MOVIE-Casablanca. MOVIE-Elmer Gantry. MOVIE-Shindler's List.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

On a clear day I can hear the beat of my own drum and find it to be not merely a beat but an entire spontaneous original erupting symphony - captivating, moving, fulfilling ... To hear your own song ... See your own path ... Love your own life fully engaged ... That's amazing ...

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH ... because I have been doing a contemplative practice for an hour every day since I was twenty one years old I think I have some understanding of the poetry of Rumi so perhaps I can teach about the meaning of some of his poems ... LEARN - Your speculations about life and existence and creation will be interesting to me but I am most interested in what you know - so please do not be shy ... TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Denmark, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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