I've been mostly Portland based since college, but I moved away and back a few times in the intervening years for various stints including living in a tiny cabin on the Olympic Peninsula, running an art and music space in Anacortes, galavanting around Eastern Europe, working on farms, at schools, and with friends on art and bookmaking projects.

These days I teach middle school Humanities at a small k-8 school on 22 acres just outside of Portland. I'm also a backyard beekeeper and I constantly find myself doing food projects in the kitchen.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To subvert capitalism

Interests

I like to think about language, context, culture, the hive mind, wabi sabi, colonialism, youth, aesthetics, ethics, bodies, memory, courage, metaphor, outer space, food systems, conviviality, hygge, real work, what's next

• books
• contemporary art
• hiking
• camping
• sailing
• astronomy
• science
• social justice
• bikes
• organic gardening
• méxico
• español
• organic farming
• beekeeping

Music, Movies, and Books

Some influences: Gary Snyder, Rabindranath Tagore, Wendell Berry, Maria Montessori, Ivan Illich, Maggie Nelson, Roni Horn, Italo Calvino, Pablo Neruda, Icelandic sagas, beautiful art books made with nice paper, the Foxfire series, Dersu Uzala, Walkabout, Black Orpheus, After Life, True Stories, Twin Peaks, RadioLab, Talking Heads, Fleetwood Mac, Arthur Russell, Neil Young, Alice Coltrane, Toumani Diabaté, Nina Simone, music from warm countries

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent a couple months in Transylvania on an archaeological dig at a UNESCO castle

Teach, Learn, Share

Sure, why not...
I'm probably too busy to hang out much during the week, (so it's probably best if you're okay with being fairly independent), but might have some available time during the weekend.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Romania, Spain, Thailand, United States