CURRENT MISSION

I am sanyasin, or traveler seeking self knowledge.

ABOUT ME

I am 64 years old, five feet nine inches, 180 pounds. I belong to no organized religion, but I have fairly original ideas about the forces of the universe and life on earth. I am almost sure it is all nonsense, but it gives me comfort against all other religious ideas and their real world practice, which I fear. Neither do I belong to any organized political party since I vote Democratic. Each morning I look in the mirror with no philosophic reflection, cultural background, ethnicity or â

PHILOSOPHY

Everything is part of a large fabric of language. Truth starts with a sincere attempt to understand this language.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couch for one, maybe two. Collaborative eating and drinking.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet.

Interests

Foreign mundane things. New food and wine. Why people are interested in anything. The human condition. Tires. Green technology. Cooking. Flight. Languages. Social thought. Law. Demagoguery. Conflict. Motorcycles. Guns. Stuff my wife likes. The Dalai Lama.
Habitat design. Population. What is sustainable?

• design
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• partying
• drinking
• motorcycles
• technology
• languages
• law
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

African Queen, Metropolis, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,Cleopatra,The Red Planet, This Island Earth, all Star wars, All Star Trek, Early Harry Potter, All Indiana Jones. All 007, Under The Red Sea, All that Jazz, Space Cowboys. All Rock from Sixties, R&B, Bebop Jazz. The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Catcher in the Rye, Stranger in a Strange Land, R is for Rocket,I Robot,All Hemingway, All Patrick O'Brien, All James Lee Burke,Maps, Dictionary of English Language,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Worked at the World Trade Center with OSHA in the aftermath of the 9-11-01 attacks. Worked in Louisiana with the Red Cross after Katrina/Rita hurricane disasters.

Teach, Learn, Share

To be determined

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