CURRENT MISSION

Serving in AmeriCorps!

ABOUT ME

If you like bicycles, music, poetry, philosophy (or just books by old dead Germans in general), hockey, stories, buddhists, vegetarians, or oatmeal/you genuinely just love the world - we'll get along fine.

PS Hey Jeremy is it true that you like to climb things?

Let me tell you - maybe.

OH - and seriously no Flyers, Capitals, or Red Wings fans I cannot emphasize this enough.

PHILOSOPHY

"My religion is kindness" - HHDL

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Biked up most the coast of Maine tenting and couchsurfing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far I have had a lot of hosts find themselves unable to host at the last minute, so with a great Buddhist vengeance I have pitched my tent in their fair cities with ill regard to property and trespassing laws. The only "repercussion" of this result is that I have realized that I did not pack insulated socks.

Interests

Making noise, being quiet, sitting still,dancing haphazardly, climbing things, thinking, attention-demanding things, jenga, poetry, cycling, goaltending, oatmeal, exploring/trespassing, vegetarianism,

• dogs
• books
• poetry
• dancing
• music
• cycling
• camping
• rock climbing
• hockey
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

music - Beethoven, Mahler, Shostakovich, Radiohead, Streetlight Manifesto, Cake, Shakti, Dave Zelonka, JS Bach, Barrios, Flight of the Conchords, Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine, The Cat Empire, Harlem Shakes

books - Siddhartha, Das Glasperlenspiel, Doctor Faustus, Baron of the Trees, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Infinite Jest, House of Leaves, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Half of a Yellow Sun, Being Zen, The Zen of Creatiity, On Becoming a Person,

poetry of : ee cummings, cseslaw milosz, terrance hayes, allen ginsberg, rainer maria rilke, li-young lee,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Working at a non-profit camp for children at risk.

Teach, Learn, Share

Once someone asked the zen master Joshu whether or not a dog has Buddha-nature. He famously replied "MU!", which is Chinese for "no-thing". One might also interpret the answer as "Un-ask that question".

If you plan to surf your way around on an extended tour of any kind, bring a tent.