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Johannesburg, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa
@clairerousell
Member since 2013
CURRENT MISSION “There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.” - Shauna Niequist PHILOSOPHY "I have lived my life in widening circles" - R.M.Rilke
Interested in Art
Fluent in English
Learning Afrikaans
1 Vouch
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Over the past 3 years I have traveled, hosted and met many wonderful couch surfers. Please see my old profile for further refs: https://www.couchsurfing.org/profile.html?id=HH9SBIK&from_search&search_ranking_names=1 COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I believe that couch surfing can be one of many tools towards a kinder, more open and more hospitable world.
Music, Movies, and Books
Fairytales in all sorts of forms, George Monbiot, Winona la Duke, bell hooks, Donna Haraway. Music: Bruce Springsteen, Medicine for the People, Leonard Cohen, A Tribe Called Red, Kinshasa One Two.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Traveled 8000km solo around my home country learning about food, seed and living in the future.
Teach, Learn, Share
I travel with a box of seeds from small holder farmers all over South Africa which I share and add road I go along. I would love to learn about plants and foods and medicines in your part of the world. I can teach knitting, crochet and would love to learn other craft skills.
My Interests
art, agroecology, local and indigenous food, dancing, soil, small scale farming, seeds, vegetable gardening, tea, myth, knitting, yoga, fabrics and yarns, seeking ways to bypass money, seeking ways to build bridges.
