CURRENT MISSION

Get Up!

ABOUT ME

Well, it depends who's asking :P

PHILOSOPHY

Make love, Not war!
and meanwhile, please read a book! :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Sharing is Caring!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Now and Then!

Interests

Anything Creative and Smart!

• books
• boating
• cycling

Music, Movies, and Books

Too many!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Make it alive so far!

Teach, Learn, Share

Mind Over Water (Houghton Miffin, 1998)

Rowers have a word for this frictionless state: swing.

Recall the pure joy of riding on a backyard swing: an easy cycle of motion, the momentum coming from the swing itself. The swing carries us; we do not force it. We pump our legs to drive our arc higher, but gravity does most of the work. We are not so much swinging as being swung. The boat swings you. The shell wants to move fast: Speed sings in its lines and nature. Our job is simply to work with the shell, to stop holding it back with our thrashing struggles to go faster. Trying too hard sabotages boat speed. Trying becomes striving and striving undoes itself. Social climbers strive to be aristocrats but their efforts prove them no such thing. Aristocrats do not strive; they have already arrived.

Swing is a state of arrival...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Romania, Sweden, United Kingdom

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