CURRENT MISSION

travel, stop global climate change (is this an oxymoron?), write a novel,

PHILOSOPHY

Be the change you want to see.. See the world through new eyes.. Read as many books as you can...Take a deep breath.. Listen....

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet

Interests

Reading, conversation, hiking, fiction and memoir writing, cooking, yoga, meditation, painting and drawing, world music, hanging out with friends, making new friends, my two cats, personal growth

• cats
• writing
• books
• cooking
• yoga
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• world music
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Brazilian, flamenco, French gypsy jazz, techno, classical, early music. I'm interested in politics and international events and love to discuss the world's happenings..Foreign or independent movies - everything from Woody Allen to Almodovar. Some of my favorite authors: Calvino, Tanizaki, Colm Toibin, Kawabata, Jorge Amado, Jhumpa Lahiri.. And the most important books of my life so far: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in Calcutta for a summer, working with a health NGO in rural West Bengal... strolled through the monsoon floods daily and loved it some of the time:)!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, India, United Kingdom, United States

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