CURRENT MISSION

Adventures. Spontaneity. Pushing myself to confront my fears and be BOLD!

PHILOSOPHY

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this." -Henry David Thoreau

I believe the world is generally a good place, with good people in it, and that there IS hope yet. I am a positive person, with a healthy mix of idealism and reality. One of my favorite activities is reminding people how amazing they are, helping them see the good in their lives, and what potential they can still reach.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Went to my first event last week! Looking forward to many fun times ahead.

Interests

Bravery, adventure, honesty, cooking/baking, live music, new and old friends, empathy, art, education, immigration (especially Mexico/LatAm-US), sexuality & gender, spirituality, environmental sustainability/politics of food and sustainable agriculture, and whether or not pacifism is possible. Recently, I've been thinking a lot about relationships, monogamy, sex positivity, and how those interact. Lots of Dan Savage...

• arts
• education
• dining
• cooking
• baking
• politics
• music
• live music
• agriculture
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Sneetches (Seuss) Pride and Prejudice (Austen), Giovanni's Room (Baldwin), Harry Potter, The Autobiography of MLK (Carson), Como Agua Para Chocolate (Esquivel), The Kite Runner (Hosseini), Aura (Fuentes), Three Cups of Tea (Mortenson), The Vegetable Thieves (Moore), Inés of my Soul (Isabel Allende), The Hunger Games

Poets: Andrea Gibson, Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca, Dean Young, Brad Liening, Jimmy Santiago Baca...still discovering poetry

Music: K'naan, Rufus Wainwright, Julieta Venegas, Damien Rice, John Mayer, The Decemberists, Ingrid Michaelson, Coldplay, Sara Bareilles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Amos Lee, Ratatat, Guster, Tegan and Sara, Lauryn Hill, Andrew Bird, Missy Higgins, Sufjan Stevens, KT Tunstall, James Morrison, Beck, The Fray, Juanes, Matisyahu, Reik, Mason Jennings, Kanye West, Camila, Orishas, Citizen Cope, Daddy Yankee, DAM, Imogen Heap, Iron and Wine, Enrique Iglesias, Jesse & Joy, Radiohead, Sarah Jaffe, Kings of Leon, Vampire Weekend, Laura Jansen, Pearl and the Beard, The Spring Standards, The Civil Wars, Mumford & Sons, Oh Land, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Kimbra, top 40 pop that makes me want to smile and dance!

Movies: LOTR, La Mission, Sin Nombre, Motorcycle Diaries, Notting Hill, Shawshank Redemption, Love Actually, Across the Universe, Juno, Little Women, Robin Hood (the cartoon version), Fantastic Mr. Fox, Guy Ritchie movies