I went back to school after working for many years. I'm currently finishing up a PhD in History.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing is an amazing platform through which I've met a number of interesting people and attended a host of memorable events. I love the site because, unlike other internet forums, it pushes you back into the real world after making contacts online. I've really marveled at its ingenuity when driving into a city that I've never visited in order to stay with a person I've never met. The apparent purpose of Couchsurfing aside, what really keeps me here are the (sometimes ad hoc) communities it helps to engender. I think we need more websites like that.

Interests

How to live, how not to live. What we might know, what we probably will never know. Nature, society and the mind; seeing our place within each. Forests and churches. How we gather and disperse: cities, suburbs and the rest. Books. The night. Ritual and improvisation. The magic of language. The shifting of consciousness. Plant-based diets. Animal souls. Anti-isms-ism. Scientia. Religio. Jazz music. Foreign films. Virtue. The sublime. Running. Art and techne. The sword and the cup: solve et coagula.

• animals
• arts
• books
• running
• movies
• magic
• music
• jazz
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

...or rather, some recent listenings, readings, and viewings (in no particular order): The Economist, Fleet Foxes, St. Matthew Passion, Aaron Beck, Lewis Carroll, William Walton, Carl Jung, Jacques Barzun, The Human Scale, The New Yorker, David Abram, Ten Canoes, Andrew Wyeth, The Decameron, Der Spiegel, Earth Island Journal, Peter Carroll, Paul Shepard, Lore, Midlake, Ori Soltes, Michael Shermer, Jock Sturges, Egon Schiele, Michael Haneke, Shostakovich, St. Augustine, Wendell Berry, Leaves of Grass, John Coltrane, Alain de Botton...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Noticed the colors in a soap bubble before it popped.

Teach, Learn, Share

-yes, I think so, because things don't stay still for long.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My time, my willingness to understand, my insight (if I have any), my gratitude...

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

• 

•