CURRENT MISSION

To discover the true meaning of human solidarity

ABOUT ME

I was born in Lansing, grew up in DeWitt, and lived my life in St. Johns - all in the great state of Michigan. After high school I decided to attend school in DC, where I currently reside. The rest is probably best related over a strong cup of coffee :)

PHILOSOPHY

respectfully lifted from a work by Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman:

"If this broken world was that I knew, and all I heard was sorrow's cry,
What would I know of anger and hope, or for what would be worthy to die?
But I have seen forests as old as river beds, I've seen trees that rise up to the dawn.
I have seen love that rises above the despair that this cruel world brings on.
I've seen beauty in the eyes of another.
I've heard music you would not believe;
And the source of my pain is the source of my hope, in a vision of what this world could be..."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Currently pretty new to the project, but I'm really excited about the concept! I'd love to help people discover the city that has been my home for the past two years.

Interests

activist love, the labor movement, music that demads you don't open your eyes, music that demads you look about you, cheap mass transit, saturated prose, midnight conversation, northern michigan, and pablo neruda, among other things

• beauty
• coffee
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

A sampling:

eternal sunshine, before sunrise/sunset, almost famous, good will hunting, finding neverland

daisy may, ben folds, yo la tengo, jens lekman, the new pornographers, david rovics, ryan harvey and the gang at riot folk, fiona apple, old crow medicine show, frank sinatra, ella fitzgerald, emmylou harris, ryan adams, billie holiday, ingrid michaelson, jewel (of the 'pieces of you' years), joni mitchell, leonard cohen, louis armstrong, iron and wine, my morning jacket, rocky votolato, okkervil river, nada surf, the national, norah jones, pete yorn, arcade fire, the postal service, radiohead, red house painters, ray lamontagne, rilo kiley, the stones, rufus, sarah harmer, the shins, stevie wonder, tegan and sara, the velvet underground, wilco

boys life, the god of small things, the world according to garp, one hundred years of solitude, the giving tree, 1984, heart of darkness, harry potter, me talk pretty one day, the corporation, jude the obscure