Being embedded in a web of community is very important to me and I am trying to cultivate this in many different ways and different scales throughout my life. Couchsurfing is a piece of that for me - honoring the guest and the traveller and thumbing my nose at the idea that everything must be an exchange.

Waking Life, Dune, The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, The Red Book, The Illuminatus Trilogy, Elephant Revival, The Flobots, Youssoupha Sidibe, all sorts of things.