CURRENT MISSION

To let the world tell me how it is, not the other way around.

ABOUT ME

The flowers like me. I like the flowers.

The animals like me, I like the animals.

The children like me, I like the children.

The walking dead despise me. I don't consider them.

PHILOSOPHY

With all the scientists, scholars, philosophers, generals and rulers helping you, you could never make something as succinct, complete and perfectly formed for its function as a lily.

There is no greater relief than giving in to that.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Mi casa, su casa.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Beginner. I've not hosted, but in traveling South America, have met up with several with AMAZING results. This is the best way not just to meet people, but to meet a place.

Interests

I like culture, energy, traveling, creating, drawing, writing, the pillars of hip-hop, street art, spray paint, magazines, basketball and music. I like anything with true guts and I pursue truth.

• animals
• arts
• culture
• writing
• street art
• walking
• flowers
• traveling
• socializing
• painting
• drawing
• music
• basketball
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Dead Man, Arizona Dream, Fight Club, Say Anything, One Crazy Summer, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters — love anything directed by Terry Gilliam or Emir Kusterica

MUSIC: (too much to list so I'll just put genres) golden age hip-hop, early New york hip-hop, instrumental hip-hop (drum+bass), producer-driven hip-hop, backpacker hip-hop, funk, soul, classic R&B, reggae, dancehall reggae, salsa, classic rock, indie rock, outlaw country, some electronica + reggaetone, sublime (because they are their own genre), some punk and worldbeat.

BOOKS: (again, too many to list, so I'll list SOME authors) Hunter S. Thompson, Henry Miller, Lao-Tzu, Yesua but not "Jesus", Malcolm Gladwell, Margaret Atwood, William Blake, Tom Wolfe, Brett Easton Ellis, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Siddhārtha Gautama, Bodiddharma,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

As a reporter for a small town newspaper in 2003, I witnessed a state-licensed execution of a human being. It was the third time I've seen someone pass through sunset, to twilight and into darkness— the first two being my grandmother and mother.

I get death. It's not scary. Life is scary. The 14th Dalai Lama says, "From everything I've seen, I think death is a very positive experience."

Understand it's not about wanting to die, but living so that you are ready when it comes.

How do we as a society punish murder with murder and think we've solved anything? I now separate myself from a society full of people not afraid to kill, but afraid to die.

Teach, Learn, Share

Open yourself to the sequences presented to you as being symbols directly pointed at you. Once you start understanding the road signs, you'll see there sure are a lot of them.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Peru, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States