CURRENT MISSION

fight like a tiger and leave something pretty, like a moon-snail on a common beach.

ABOUT ME

I have a rich sweet life, good relationships, useful work, a handmade house in the country and an office in town that I go to on an irregular basis. Politically radical, spiritually pagan, I'm attracted to nature, deep friendships, transformational politics. We give good hospitality.

Ilana fled Brazil when she was 17 and lived a life in Israel before she came to the U.S. She speaks and writes Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew and English, ran a non-profit for many years and is a lot of fun to live with.
We have a rammed earth house we built out in the woods of Silk Hope, just a short drive from Chapel Hill, off an un-named tributary of Terrells Creek in the Haw River watershed of the Cape Fear basin.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surf and host, host and surf. I'm open to helping create gatherings.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Informal all my life, this is my first experience with an organization. We host a lot of people at our house.

Interests

Writing, reading deeply, drinking dark rums, cooking, following streams and rivers, traveling, anti-racism work.

• writing
• cooking
• drinking
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• languages
• science
• beaches
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Writers
Louise Erdrich, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Barry Lopez, Ursula LeGuin, Sherry Tepper, Wendell Berry, Dorothy Allison, Adrienne Rich, Audry Lorde, Rumi, Flannery O'Conner, The Fugitives, Naomi Klein, bell hooks, just to get started.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Between us We have: traveled deeply in Mexico, organized a march of thousands, pastored a church, published in magazines, interpreted at the World Social Forum. . .

Teach, Learn, Share

I have small magicks, subtle earth-friendly ones. I read people sometimes.
Plant-lore and identification. Earth building techniques. Facilitation. Cooking. Magical realism. Strong woman science fiction.

Ilana interprets in several languages, tells good stories in all of them, makes a mean black bean soup, is a good photographer,collects bones, just to start with.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Mexico, Morocco

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States