CURRENT MISSION

To see the good in everything

ABOUT ME

I am a 43 year old male born in Denmark but spent my entire childhood, adolescent and adult years living in many different countries. I don't have any emotional ties to any particular culture or nation and consider myself just a plain earthling. I have spent most of my life in music; performance, composing and education but I am also interested in ecology, spirituality and holistic health.

PHILOSOPHY

Philosophical keywords: Exchange, Honesty, Free of negativity, Open, Alert. Focusing on earth things and not world things. Not getting carried away with stress and negativity. Staying fresh and not stagnant.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I try to be a good host. I participate in local couch surfing events.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted several people through couch surfing and have stayed with numerous people outside the official Couching Surfing realm all of which has been tremendously positive

兴趣

Music (Traditional Music, Western Art Music, African-American Music, Early 20th Century European Popular Music), human interaction, yoga, tai-chi, meditation, herb-gathering, wilderness survival, cooking, ornithology

Three people that have influenced my life profoundly: Barry Long (Australian spiritual master), Tom Brown Jr. (American wilderness expert based on Native philosophy) and Jacob Holdt (Danish vagabond photographer writing about racism and oppression)

• arts
• culture
• writing
• performing arts
• education
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• meditation
• traveling
• survival
• music
• surfing
• ecology
• teaching
• languages
• ornithology

音乐、电影和书籍

My favorite movies:
Kieslowsky "The Ten Commandments"
David Lynch "The Straight Story"
"You Don't Mess With the Zohan"
"Outlander" (series)
Thomas Vinterberg "Festen" (The celebration)

My favorite music:
Beethoven: "Archduke trio"
Anton von Webern: "Fünf Sätze für Streichkvartett"
Duke Ellington: Cotton Club years, suites, infact everything he ever recorded
John Coltrane: Crescent, A love supreme, Sun Ship
Jelly Roll Morton: piano solos 1923
Aka Günduz Kutbay: Classical Turkish Ney-flute
Djivan Gasparyan: Armenian Duduk
Georgia Sea Islands Negro spirituals and slave songs
Le Mystère des voix Bulgares (Bulgarian womens' choir)
- and much more, except mainstream commercial music

Books:
Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales
Gurdjieff, "Meetings with Remarkable Men"
Saint-Exupéry, "Le Petit Prince"
Arabian Nights
Eckhart Tolle "The power of now"

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Hiked the Camino Del Santiago.
Climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro
Shook hands with Karl-Heinz Stockhausen
Jammed with Gypsy musicians in Bulgaria

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

Music, food, ideas, travel stories, languages

我游览过的国家

Algeria, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Israel, Kuwait, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Zambia, Zimbabwe

我居住过的国家

Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Kenya, Tanzania, United States

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