CURRENT MISSION Share more, care more, judge less. Live in harmony with nature. Luddite-lover. I live in Massachusetts the majority of the year, but also in Southeast Kentucky for a lot of the year, or maybe Trinidad. If you send me a request to stay here, please let me know you have read my profile. ABOUT ME Ruthy-truthy. PHILOSOPHY I feel lucky to be alive and to live in my body, and when my brain says, "Legs, move!" they do. That's a gift I'm hugely grateful for, because it enables me to "do good" in a fun way. But even if my body didn't work the way I wanted it to, I'm sure there would still be Something I could do to contribute to the well-being of my surroundings.
流利使用英语
流利使用西班牙语
正在学习西班牙语
先锋徽章
我为什么使用Couchsurfing
Because people need welcoming places to stay, including myself sometimes.
音乐、电影与书籍
Music: birdsongs, and wind in my ears when I'm biking Movies: dusk falling, thunderstorms rolling in, stars at night Books: whatever written material catches my eye when I'm out and about Uhh.. not to be a smart ass, but I'm kind of illiterate when it comes to "culture".
我做过的一件令人惊叹的事
Once I got to look into the eyes of the young 18-yr old paramilitary guys standing on the edge of their motorboat, wearing boots, camo, and M-16s while their commander put his foot on our boat to question the locals in our boat.
教学、学习、分享
People who know how to do stuff, like mechanical stuff or non-electronic, non-motorized stuff.
我能与房东分享的
food, water, shelter, clothes, friends, bikes, bike parts and tools, paper maps, maybe berries or a fresh chicken egg
我的兴趣
Bicycles, trash, racial justice, eating what I find, gleaning, farming, economic justice, dumpster diving, basketball, hairy women, collectively-owned businesses, people different from me but open-minded, fixing things, swimming, climbing things, keeping democracy alive, anything mechanical but not necessarily mechanized, all kinds of weather, working outside, doing physical labor, being warm from the inside out...
