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Overview

  • 7 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Spanish
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • I'm a milliner, yarn spinner, Astro-Tarot consultant, dan...
  • Ongoing...
  • From Ghent, NY, USA
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Actualize, etherize, individualize, laugh and disappear...

ABOUT ME

I like to spend a good amount of time alone, but have an extrovert's urge to socialize, so it's a constant science of environment... I spin yarn, knit and felt hats, read tarot around Vermont, substitute teach, perform on the street and occassionally throw a bizarre puppet show... My moods can be saintly or impetuous, my decree structured or otherworldly... I live a Libran's destiny of joyful oscillation and peace-seeking beauty...

PHILOSOPHY

As above, so below...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted and been hosted, and have had nothing but positive experiences... A safe and honest glimpse into someone's life can be a great tool for reflection.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

People enter my home, share and reflect my surroundings... hopefully, i do the same.

Interests

I'm interested in allowing myself to be more of myself, so I follow spontaneous blisses and mental curiosities. I love to be blessed with the company of my dear friends. I love rivers and dancing in the sunshine. I love people being happy and seeing artistic fulfillment. Im generally just happy to be moving along...

  • performing arts
  • beauty
  • dancing
  • environment
  • socializing
  • knitting
  • science
  • rivers
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: All sincere, beautiful music of any caliber or genre... Too many to list!
Books: Huxley, Dane Rudhar, Murakami, Hesse, Henry Miller, Dostoyevsky, Lewis Mumford, Gregory Bateson, Jim Harrison, Wilhem Reich, Derrick Jensen, Ken Wilbur, Eric Neumann, Jung, Kafka, Ayn Rand, Salinger, Alan Watts, Vonnegut, Virginia Woolf, Teillaird de Chardin, Czeslaw Milosz, Eckhart, Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Walt Whitman, James Wright, W.S. Merwin, Rumi, Gary Snyder, Goethe, William Blake, Neruda, Borges, Robert Bly, Mary Oliver, etc…

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Fall in the East… the streets of Spain, the mountains in Vermont...

Teach, Learn, Share

I know how to make hats or make a little more sense of things...

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Mexico, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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