CURRENT MISSION

seek peace, add lightness, simplify, learn some spanish.

ABOUT ME

mammalian, travels light, earth tones, loves to work and walk and eat with people.

PHILOSOPHY

should probably meditate more.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i have always depended on the kindness of strangers...

Interests

Cultural regeneration, the collapse of complex civilizations, biodynamic farming, permaculture orchards, primatology, joinery, furniture, vernacular architecture, cellular automata, bio-regional decentralization, Flight, dynamical systems, philosophy and politics of Time, homebrewing, Spinoza

• architecture
• meditation
• politics
• homebrewing
• woodworking
• history
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

(in no particular order)
Wind, Sand and Stars-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Memory of Fire trilogy-Eduardo Galeano, collected writings of Ryszard Kapusinski, Thus Sprach Zarathustra-Friedrich Nietzsche, the Life of Milarepa, collected works of Dr Seuss, the Impractical Cabinetmaker-James Krenov, 1,000 Plateaus Capitalism & Schizophrenia- Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, 1,000 Years of Nonlinear History-Manuel DeLanda, Thorstein Veblen & neo-institutionalist economic writing, Fernand Braudel, Marcel Mauss, Mircea Eliade, Immanuel Wallerstein, Moomintroll series- Tove Jansson, Wendell Barry, Pema Chodron, Kropotkin, Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthissen, the Island Within-Richard Nelson

Leadbelly, Led Zepplin, Aphex Twin

Teach, Learn, Share

History of Philosophy, woodworking...would like to learn anything about medicine and healing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Germany, India, Japan, Jordan, Nepal, Nicaragua, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Papua New Guinea, United States