CURRENT MISSION

What's out there in the big wide world?

ABOUT ME

I am a little lost and a little confused and a little joyous and a little melancholy, and sometimes I'm alone in a crowd of strangers, and sometimes (maybe at the same time) I'm embracing my dearest friends. I will always keep my empathy for others, my love of learning, and my desire to make others happy. I love beautiful sights and delicious smells and the feel of early morning sunshine. I think longingly of green vegetables. I sometimes wonder, what is my purpose? And then I remember that I can generate one for myself any time I want to.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe that we live our lives within self-constructed walls. Walls aren't necessarily bad, but I try to be conscious of the walls I erect for myself. What seems like absolute reality may be just my story of reality. If I tell myself that something is so, I might make it true for myself--but it doesn't HAVE to be that way.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've mostly interacted with friends' couchsurfers. Though I did go couchsurfing once in Flagstaff Arizona, on the way to the Grand Canyon. That was awesome. I love just being with people in a casual home, eating pudding made from avocadoes, and then going out to see one of their favorite hometown bars for an hour or two.

Interests

good books, libraries, horses, Liquid Flow dancing, world affairs, politics, agriculture (agroecology), social justice, science of happiness, design thinking, writing creative nonfiction, gardening.

• horses
• writing
• books
• design
• dancing
• cooking
• crafts
• gardening
• politics
• drawing
• cycling
• agriculture
• ecology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials-- childhood favorite
Ender's Game
The Sun magazine-- creative nonfiction
100 Years of Solitude
Improv Wisdom
Ishmael
Dear Sugar
MAD Magazine
Radical Homemakers
Darkness at Noon
On the Road

Movies: Fight Club, Amelie, NOT Mortal Kombat (Kombate Mortale en castellano),Persepolis, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, The Piano, Temple Grandin, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Before Sunrise, Waking Life, Pan's Labyrinth
Music: Ratatat, Bonobo, Ayla Nereo, Ben Folds, Weird Al

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The GRAND CANYON!!!! It's really big. Yeah.

Teach, Learn, Share

Beginning gardener and composter
Beginning cello
Co-op living

I'd love to learn more carpentry/crafts, bike repair, gardening/permaculture/agro-ecology, musical instruments, cooking(!!), and drawing. and writing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Japan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, United States

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