CURRENT MISSION

creating

ABOUT ME

I am a writer, teacher and PhD student living in Brighton. I enjoy reading, writing, drinking good tea, meditating and celebrating in the mountains, studying and teaching folk tales, good philosophical discussions and eating cheese.

Also here here http://www.couchsurfing.com/profile.html?id=4EBURX5

PHILOSOPHY

Do what you're frightened of.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Well I just joined, so as yet not in many ways, but there is surely time.

Interests

Books of all types, Writing, Paganism, Meditation, Travelling, seeing the world.

• writing
• books
• cheese
• meditation
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• teaching
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors: (in no particular order) Enheduanna, Jeanette Winterson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Virginia Woolf, Markus Zusak, JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, AS Byatt, DH Lawrence, Ursula Le Guin, Gustav Meyrink, Tom Stoppard, Barbara Kingsolver, Thom Gunn, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rose Tremain, Jack Zipes, Vivianne Crowley, William James, Paul Magrs, Patricia Duncker, Mircea Eliade, Haruki Murakami.

Films: Bobule, Pelisky, Zelary, Secretary, Science of Sleep, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Elling, East Palace West Palace, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Serenity, Frida, Shakespeare in Love, Twelth Night (version with Helena Bonham Carter), Pan's Labyrinth, Last King of Scotland, Spirited Away.

Music: Vas, Loreena Mckennit, Leonard Cohen, Celtic Music without flutey leaping dolphins, Damh the Bard, Belle and Sebastian, Dead Can Dance, REM, Thea Gilmore, Lacuna Coil.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Reached Macchu Picchu at 6am in the morning to see the sun rise.

Celebrated almost forgotten gods.

Countries I’ve Visited

Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Ireland, Nepal, United Kingdom