CURRENT MISSION

see occupation.

ABOUT ME

i live with my five cats and my partner when he comes home from going to school in NYC (he's a film maker, video editor, and graphic design artist and a really awesome dude). i was born from yuppie stock but i want to be a farmer.

also me: i am very passionate and sometimes have an explosive temper. in fact i do pretty much everything, good and bad, with a lot of emphasis and zeal, even being quiet by myself. i talk with my hands. i'm a first born, perfectionist, over achiever, goody two-shoes, but i'm also a rebel and a bad ass. i'm fiercely independent and i have a bad habit of pushing people away or keeping them at arms length when at the same time i'm really needy and just want to be loved and cared for. i'm a big dork, very talkative once i get going, childish and grown up simultaneously, quite witty, if i don't say so myself. i can be brutal, but i'm generally sweet and ultimately caring and fiercely loyal...to myself first and foremost.
my history is as follows: i'm a white, american, upper class, woman who believes that through profound and deeply honest, loving, compassionate, and respectful personal introspection and social interaction we can individually and collectively build on the possibilities for healing, empowerment, peace, self-determination, dignity and joy while eradicating social hierarchy, oppression, and injustice. this is what i work for. it is the force which propels me and is inextricably connected to my history, my present, and my survival.

PHILOSOPHY

a little something i like to call "psychecological anarchism", the premise of which is that we are all interconnected on the level of energy, that we are thus an integral part of earth's ecology, but that we are also egoic human beings who must deal with our isht and heal ourselves in order to simultaneously heal and sustain our world and our species. we do this through bioenergetics, embodied psychotherapy, applied (as in not just theoretical) anarchy... got any other ideas?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

as yet a couchsurfing virgin.

Interests

my cats, gardening and farming, food, reading, writing, healing, dreams, psychology, art, hip hop, obliterating social injustices, unschooling, anarchism, truth, love, and general hilarity.

• cats
• arts
• writing
• design
• graphic design
• dining
• cooking
• pilates
• gardening
• reading
• woodworking
• survival
• hunting
• ecology
• history
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

movies:
V for Vendetta, LotR, 80s movies, Newsies, star wars (original trilogy), x-men (1&2), spiderman (1 & 2), Garden State, American History X, Fight Club, and Anne of Green Gables.
Music:
Rev 1 (www.rev1.net), Mos Def, Immortal Technique (if only he could curb the homophobia and misogyny), The Last Emperor, Dead Prez (also with the homophobia), Le Tigre, The Faint, Fugazi, Joan Jett, 80s pop and rock, Manu Chao, NSYNC and Britney Spears, Heart, Mr Lif, Saul Williams, Propagandhi, Andrew WK, Ani D, Tori Amos, Enya, and the LotR, Amelie, and Garden State soundtracks.
Books:
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, anything by James Baldwin, Maus, LotR trilogy, Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing, the God of Small Things, Jonathan Kozol, Joel Spring, bell hooks, Assata, the Autobiography of Malcolm X, critical memoir, Harry f***ing Potter, Alice Walker, Erich Fromm, Eckhart Tolle, anything by Derrick Jensen, books about sustainability, permaculture, history and politics...
TV Shows:
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, The Office (American and British), Family Guy, The Simpsons (circa 1990s), Lost, The Sopranos, friends (guilty pleasure), 90210 (rip), cooking shows, sports night, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

recently i saw two hawks standing off their ground and they were all big with their wings out. it was awesome. nature is always awesome.

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach:
permaculture
hands on healing
dream analysis (a little)
anarchism
cooking (specifically healthy food)
hand sewing
making hand creams
also, i have taught part of a class called Anarchy and Spirituality

things i'd like to learn:
pilates
woodworking
construction
how the inside of a car works
silkscreening
food preservation
anything about farming and/or gardening
hunting (for food)
... what have you got?