HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Hospitality is the beginning of most every good thing in this world. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Jacksonville, FL - for 3 days during a conference, stayed with a very hospitable fellow.

Books: Classical, medieval, and modern British literature, Herman Hesse, Wendell Berry, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Bloom, Goethe, George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, Michael Polanyi. Also Calvin and Hobbes. Movies: Koyaanisqatsi, Babel, Thin Red Line, Lord of the Rings, Into Great Silence, other ones. Music: Wilco, Over the Rhine, Nick Drake, Rosie Thomas, Sufjan Stevens, Johnny Cash, Andrew Bird, Kings of Convenience, Radiohead, Starflyer 59, Bach