CURRENT MISSION

Living the questions, the way Rilke taught me

ABOUT ME

Update: Moved to Portland, OR recently and am just staying with friends... Since I have no couch available at the moment and am not traveling I haven't been on here in forever. I very much apologize if I did not respond to your request, nothing personal whatsoever. As soon as I get my own place I will have a free couch again and will stay better connected. For now, if you are in Portland and want to meet up, message away! We can discover the city together.

These days,in Yakima, I spend my time writing, playing music with my band, overusing ellipses, making delicious vegan food, researching the science of love/lust/sex/attachment, creating hydroponic "gardens", wishing I rode my bicycle more, smoking cigarettes on my fire escape, reading, daydreaming, exploring, talking late into the night, wearing costumes, wrestling with my kitten, making 'zines, and painting (which I am Horrible at, by the way)... I live in Yakima, but divide most of my free time between Seattle, WA and Portland, OR. Visiting friends, exploring lakes and oceans and rivers, mountaintops and waterfalls and forests. I thoroughly enjoy being in the city as well, but I kind of have a thing for all things water and tree related. I have a 6 month old kitten named Quentin who is a traveling cat, raised by me and my sometimes roommate as a vagabond adventurer. I need books and music to survive each day, require strong, black coffee each morning and prefer red wine or whiskey at night. I'm in a very transitional state right now.... living alone for the first time in my life, planning to move out of this city early next year, starting the steps to EMT certification, making a half assed attempt at writing a book, beginning to do all of the traveling that I have wanted for so very long... I also hate writing "About Me" things online.

PHILOSOPHY

"There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground".
-Rumi

"Her first steps, though cautious, began immediately to reinforce her faith in greater possibilities".
-drawing in a friends' bathroom, gifted to me when they recently moved far away

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None, so far. But hoping to begin by surfing my way around New Orleans in a couple weeks!

Interests

Books, treehouses, bare skin, adventure, thunderstorms, exploring, stringed instruments, vegan cooking/baking, clavicle and scapula, red wine, red lipstick, black black coffee, the moon, sing-a-longs, petrichor, holding champagne in my mouth until my eyes burn, heat, climbing trees, the sea, paint, crushing rosemary in my palms, traveling, hauntings, dusty cowboy boots, saying yes, card catalogs, campfire smells, 613 sadnesses, the way your pupils dilate, gasps of surprise, typewriters, strong hands, Jewish authors, scars, innuendos, linguistics, belly laughs, nicknames, blanket forts, trusting my intuition, pianos, the way people sigh to themselves, garters, suspenders, religious iconography, the sound of tent zippers, opium oil, burning sage, fire escapes, moths, tangled hair, old family photos, river water, canyon road, kittens, crooked mouths, up all night, bruises, bones, vinyl, antlers, feathers, fruit stands, bicycles, and books books books, and did I mention that I like books?

• cats
• writing
• books
• singing
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• red wine
• coffee
• baking
• vegan
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• adventure races
• surfing
• wrestling
• rock climbing
• science
• lakes
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Dead Man's Bones, Tom Waits, Blonde Redhead, Bon Iver, Rodrigo y Gabriella, Cocorosie, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, Ratatat, The Tallest Man on Earth, Yann Tiersen, Billie Holiday, The Velvet Underground, Tim Barry, The Swell Season, Murder City Devils, Refused, Listeners, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Ray Lamontagne, James Blake, Atmosphere, Beirut, The Blackheart Procession, Bowerbirds, Doomriders, Gogol Bordello, Chuck Ragan, Frank Sinatra, Lucero, Neil Diamond, Muscles, Regina Spektor, Social Distortion, The Rural Alberta Advantage....

Love Me if You Dare, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Inception, Inglorious Bastards, Amelie, Die Hard movies, Griff the Invisible, Annie Hall, Wes Anderson movies, zombie flicks, documentaries...

Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard Siken, Rumi, Flannery O'Connor, Diane DiPrima, Walt Whitman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, David Foster Wallace, Charles Bukowski, John Irving, Inga Muscio, Howard Zinn, Ray Bradbury, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Nicole Krauss, Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris, Francesca Lia Block, Dave Eggers, Anais Nin, Jack Kerouac, Augusten Burroughs, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mark Twain...