CURRENT MISSION

ride the magic lightning parade, stop to sketch some lovely things. Love everybody, share frothy mugs of joys

ABOUT ME

Lettuce sea... Who am I being? Done with school for now, I moved to the Bay area about 2.5 years ago and have been playing lot, working a little ever since. Before that, I spent a rough and fuzzy year in-joying the traveling lifestyle all over the East coast from Florida to Maine, surfing the spontenaity and work-trading on organic farms. Life is always bringing me into new adventures! My sights were set on the rolling, tumultuous West Coast, following the myth of Redwood forests, oceans, and high rocky cliffs and gusty winds, and I have found a home in the San Francisco Bay. Yes, I go sniffing around San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and Marin Co. for the source of its jubuliant madness (to join it). I am in profession, by choice of the universe, an inspired vagabond, a rather ignoble bard, and a hopelessly hope-full wanderer. A poet in disguise as a villian(-elle)? Glory to my fellows, the pranksters, tricksters, cuddlers, mustache-wearers, and those who sport a bowtie, to lovers of all growing things, ferns about to uncoil, Octopus and Mollosk-like creatures, long winding tales and thin paths through the woods, listening to blustery wind-chimes and the explitives of the surf. More? I like to paint, ride bicycles through all sorts of weather, and climb up trees, to dress up in funny suits, make things myself and not buy them, engage in spontaneous music and singing or bellowing, and the Sport of making Great Things happen, whenever i can. I love meeting new and amazing people and practicing the zen of bumblebee experiences on land or on Sea, no quarter for Zombies! A rucksack wanderer that is thrilled by the Wonder There are always mushrooms to gather

PHILOSOPHY

Gary Snyder. Camus, Chuang-tzu. DT & S.Suzuki. Wallace Stevens. Rilke. WcarlosW. Borges. Yeats. Keats.
caravaggio, el Greco, velasquez, manet, toulouse-lautrec. duher.Vgogh, gaugain,modigliani
eecummings dylanthomas
Orpheus Proteus Pan/Dionysus ErisTisephone Hermes/Mercury
J.appleseed
Quetzalcoatle
Mr. Tumnus
& etcs. A holy litany of brigands and rogues, the Tricksters, the Pranksters

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

So far I have been hosted by many exceedingly wonderful people. I've been traveling, so have not had a chance to host yet. I am so grateful to be able to start returning some favors now. Also, I speak highly of CS and have hooked up a lot of people into this happy community web. love it!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed in Chapel Hill, NC and in Baltimore, MD recently on a trip up the East coast with my friend, Liana. We had a wonderful time, and a great experience with each of our hosts. thanks so much!
Then, I've surfed my way from the East coast to the West, meeting great people in New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Irvine, LA, and Santa Cruz. I love this project. CS has been a profoundly good thing everywhere I've seen it.

Interests

Mythology! -all the world wide-
Mountain climbing, hiking, hilltop forest revelling and howling
Ancient Greece art and the Aegean influence, art history
Redwood trees and vast cliffs, forests and oceans
French absurdist theater, ancient and modern poetry
James Joyce & Ulysses, literary synesthesia
Air Navigation
Bicycles! BICYCLES!
Painting on large dripping canvases
Pirating, Privateering, and Seaworthy Expeditions on the open waves
fueled by green stuff, and raw food when I can get it
learning capoieria, rolling in the grass
Contradancing- anytime, anywhere.
Storytelling, drawing cartoons of impossible beasts
minstrel for hire
hiking expeditions . wilderness skills.
designing tattoos that i probably will never get
empathizing with slime molds

• arts
• poetry
• singing
• theater
• tattoos
• dining
• raw food
• cartoons
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• magic
• music
• hiking
• surfing
• sports
• rock climbing
• art history
• history
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Princess Mononoke, Peter Pan, Baraka, Koanasquatski, Mary Poppins, singing in the rain, Brazil, French cinema

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

it's Real!

Teach, Learn, Share

I think i might try being a Balloonist next. A hot air Balloonist. WIth long striped pants a tall hat and possibly an elongate French moustache. In specific, a zeppelin-dirigible craft powered & steered with bicycle gears..

I have all sorts of funny skills, what do you want to know? From Sandcastle construction to massage.
But I can't yet play a pan flute as well as I desire, OR fingerpick anything with strings: I'll bring it, please teach me me a thing or two, if you have any to spare

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Ireland, Italy, Trinidad and Tobago, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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