ABOUT ME

I'm a creative type who loves artists and books. I work in the arts, and founded and run a non-profit social venture that restores houses in the Old City of Fes, Morocco as a benefit to support free artist residencies there. I also work in the arts in America. I am a Mevlevi sufi, and am studying Arabic and Persian on the slow boat. I am also a gardener. On the slow boat. Which means I am trying to become a gardener. This year I am racing beans. Little by little.

Interests

I read, and dream of travel. I try to garden more. Then I travel and things in the garden perish. It's sad. How to balance things? Some day it will be different--I will have a good watering system. Then travel will be better.

I spend my time dreaming of Samarkand. Can you couch-surf in Samarkand?

• arts
• books
• running
• gardening
• boating
• traveling

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hmmmm. The most beautiful night I've have on earth was a night that I was staying with a Berber family in the Sahara desert. They had one of those lovely houses that is all earth walls and floor, very sweet and bare, and there was a little courtyard with a packed dirt ground and a reed trellis with one strand of ivy. And I was out in the courtyard washing my laundry in a bucket while they were drumming. That's all. That was the living end.

Countries I’ve Visited

Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Morocco, United States