CURRENT MISSION

Looking for God in various languages.

ABOUT ME

I like sounds, colors, voices and shapes.
I'm extraordinarily positive but not in a way that makes people want to murder me.
I don't need much, particularly considering I've lived in Africa and am therefore unused to running water.
I'm very religious, and what that means for me is that I must love everyone. (Religion, to me, is a language to talk about what we can't explain. I'm not going to say German is better than Spanish, I just prefer German. Some of the best religious conversations I've ever had are with atheists.)
I love baking muffins.
I'm quite shy, but am working on that.
I'm at home in both big cities and small mountain towns.
I wear a bowler hat.

PHILOSOPHY

We're all trying to figure out how to survive as people. Do what helps you and others survive. For me, it means: love everyone, no matter what. To give more of yourself, require less from others.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

CouchSurfed for the first time in Paris and it was delightful!

Interests

God
Religion
Theater
Sound
Synaesthesia
Writing
Voice
Art
Churches
Baking

• arts
• writing
• theater
• baking
• running
• walking
• bowling
• divinity
• languages
• religion
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Metal (Elvening, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Blind Guardian), musicals (Sweeney Todd, The Hidden Sky, Passion), classical (Berlioz, Beethoven, Vivaldi).

Books: Sci-Fi/Fantasy (Anne McCaffery, JRR Tolkien, Orson Scott Card), Plays (Edward Albee, Peter Handke, Sarah Kane), Theology (St. Theresa of Avila, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Desert Fathers), Poetry (Emily Dickinson, Rumi, Hafez)

Movies: All That Jazz, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amadeus.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sunrise on the beach in Elmina. Walking the labyrinth at Chartres.

Teach, Learn, Share

Theology and knowledge of various religions. Folding paper cranes.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ghana, United States