CURRENT MISSION

Being beneficial via humanitarian aid

ABOUT ME

Conscious while dreaming. Speaking for the trees. Dedicated to being beneficial. I have a 12 year old daughter named Karma.
Born and raised in Alaska USA (near the arctic circle). Started dog-sledding at age 7. I grew up very poor with a single mother. She left when i was 14. I stopped going to school and went to live in the woods outside of the city that winter, homeless and parentless for the first time. I loved it. By the following summer i had gone to live with my godfather in the southern part of the state, way out in the woods. Hes an amazing person. As soon as i turned 18 in the year 2000 i hitchhiked out of Alaska, thru Canada down to the "lower 48" states of the US. For a few years i hitchhiked 3000+ miles (4800 km) a week. I figure I was picked up by around 10,000 people. I hitchhiked every highway on the western side of the country. Every single one. In those three years I hitchhiked to almost every state and every city and national forest in the country.
Then I traveled with a couple dozen "road kids" on the school bus for a couple years often on after that. We set up camps in the woods all over the country and had small gathering like a tribe. At one point we lived in and old-growth redwood forest for a month. At another point we lived in the desert among saguaros for a month. And another time we lived 20 miles off the road system in Anasazi ruins (cliff dwellings) for three months in the middle of winter. Then in November 2008 I delivered my daughter by candlelight. Her name is Karma. She was born in the biggest recorded snowstorm in America. Tahoe California. 14 feet (4.6 meters) of standing snow. Within three months we were living in a massive warehouse in Hollywood California filled with crystals and gems. Karma her mother and I slept on the shelves with the quarts and the amethyst at night. By day we packed and unpacked crystals and gems and mailed them all over the world. A year later we were living in the desert and Karma's mother and I had split up. A year later Karma and my girlfriend and I were growing 80 acres of marijuana in Northern California for a distributor in Los Angeles. One year after that we were living in Alaska and I was enrolled in college. I showed up as a high school dropout with no money. So i got straight A's and applied for scholarships. I lobbied to Congress as student president and started scholarship programs for the college. I grew food during the summer and taught Karma how to live in the woods. After 3 1/2 years in college I had made almost $30,000 in scholarships. In 2012 i created a mobile "disaster relief kitchen" on a school bus. At the US Rainbow Gathering in 2014 the kitchen made up to 130 gallons (492 liters) of food for dinner every day way out in the national forest and had five tipis for shelter and workshops, two of which were 28 feet (10 meters) wide. I hope to use that kitchen to feed communities in Central America next year.

PHILOSOPHY

Im not a buddhist. Buddha would likely have described himself the same way. That being said, my daughters name is Karma. I delivered her by candle light. I agree quite specifically with the 8 fold path and most of what buddha is attributed with having said. I desire (because im not a buddhist) to be as beneficial as possible and i put great effort in that direction. (Benefiting what?) Im trying to help repair the ecosystem by raising human awareness and providing key action.
I believe the ecosystem (including humans) is a single organism, and that the millions of people who feel a deep connection to the ecosystem and dedicate themselves to protecting it are its self-defense mechanism.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Participation! I have a ribbon from childhood that i got after running a dog-sled race in the arctic. It just says "participant". Ive kept it all these years even tho i long since got rid of the trophies. Its such a fantastic single word for a ribbon to declare. I help facilitate the US Rainbow Gathering (its the largest peaceful assembly in nature anywhere in the world). I connect with people and try to help them solve problems in their lives. I learn about the world and try to help improve it.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Ive met great people who travel entirely by and because of couchsurfing. No experiences of my own yet tho.

Interests

See "teach learn share" and "personal description"

• dogs
• dining
• running
• traveling
• anthropology
• geography
• history
• international relations
• physics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

I feel like movies are mentally invasive, so i limit my intake of them as much as possible. i try to watch documentaries mainly. I play the dijeridoo and appreciate all kinds of music, some kinds in small doses tho. I just read eleven really good books on humanitarian aid, including "An Imperfect Offering" by James Orbinski and "Chasing Chaos" by Jessica Alexander. I read a lot of world news. The last several books Carl Sagan wrote are among my most favorite ever.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

See "personal description"

Teach, Learn, Share

Im obsessed with reality. Im trying to understand as much of it as possible and im fairly talented at explaining the portions im familiar with. I love to learn and share. We all prioritize our focus since we are all short on time so heres an intuitive list of the top things i like to learn about and share with others. First things that come to mind in no particular order: history, sustainability, humanitarian aid, current events, the ecosystem, space, climate, growing food, survivalism, science, geography, international relations, cosmology, civilization, endangered species, energy, philosophy, physics, consciousness, carpentry, anthropology, travel.

Countries I’ve Visited

El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Nicaragua, United States