ABOUT ME

"an oblivion of fun and playtime"

messy eater/crooked mouth

PHILOSOPHY

Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise. -Miranda July

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
~*~*~

Hold on to something and watch it go.
Everything you love will end up on the breeze.
The roots that held the tree down left a deep hole,
full of water, reflecting sky.
~*~*~

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.
~*~*~

A dead whale or a stove boat.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing is good and great, I'm so happy it exists. I've traveled many places via couchsurfing and have met countless wonderful kindhearted giving people that replenished my faith in humanity.

Interests

the absurd (ie, everything),the world, exploring, sailing, dancing, bodies of water, photography, film, music, volunteering,bikes, cooking, food, abandoned places (amusement parks, homes, buildings, etc.), farming, zines, radical politics, owls, tree houses, the universe.

• photography
• dancing
• cooking
• boating
• politics
• music
• hiking
• sailing
• swimming
• volunteering
• parks
• sailing boat

Music, Movies, and Books

Meshes of the Afternoon,Time of the Gypsies, Wild At Heart, Arizona Dream,Harold and Maude, Happiness, Gummo/// Lynch, Miike, Solondz, Jeunet, Svankmajer, Herzog, Kusturica, Von Trier, Coens
~*~*~*~*~
mount eerie/the microphones, a hawk and a hacksaw, sonic youth,joy division,jonathan richman/modern lovers, leonard cohen, talking heads,sleater-kinney, songs: ohia,kate bush, bikini kill
~*~*~*~*~*~*
The Tin Drum, The Road, Boy, The New York Trilogy, Eva Luna//Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Gary Snyder, Naomi Klein, Gunter Grass,Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski,Roald Dahl,Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Michelle Tea

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Volunteered for 3 months in Peru at an elementary school and an English school in Cusco and an orphanage in Trujillo in Fall, 06.
and also in New Orleans in January/2007.
* Taught English in Gdansk, Poland, December, 2007-August, 2008
*Hitchhiked around the Balkans, 6/2011.
*Taught English to adorable children in Busan, South Korea 2013-2014
*Traveled and WWOOFED through Korea, Japan & Southeast Asia 9/2014-2/2015

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Peru, Poland, South Korea, United States

• 

•