CURRENT MISSION

To spread joy and knowledge wherever I go

ABOUT ME

I am a fledgling Latinist/Theologian from Canada who is quite fond of living in Edinburgh and does not yet miss Toronto heat waves (!!). I am fond of literature, primarily ancient, mediaeval, children's, and science fiction. I also like superhero movies. I am going to spend the next three years of my life studying fifth-century AD Latin texts (papal letters); to balance this, I collect stamps and paint model soldiers. I am married to a wonderful woman who puts up with and even loves my various oddities from ancient theology to monks to voyageur songs to Highland dancing and the smell of model-soldier paint.

I try to be a conscientious houseguest. I spent a year as a manny (male nanny) between the two master's degrees.

PHILOSOPHY

While the truest and greatest joy and happiness is found in God alone, I love people of all sorts, shapes, and sizes, and my own theological objectives tend not to get in the way of forging great friendships with varieties of people that also help to deepen joy and happiness.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing for now. Maybe someday hosting; we'll see how it goes.

Interests

Latin, ancient Greek, ancient epic, ancient theology, science fiction, Roman history, Vikings, monasticism, stamp-collecting, model soldiers (ancient & mediaeval), books, superhero films, the Middle Ages, the Beatles, opera, symphonic music, and so on and so forth.

• books
• literature
• dancing
• modeling
• movies
• painting
• stamps
• music
• opera
• surfing
• divinity
• history
• military science
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: Wagner (Das Ring Der Nibelungen), Beethoven (all 9 symphonies, Fidelio), Berlioz (Symphonie Fantastique, Les Troyens), Brahms (symphonies, clarinet works), Weber (works for clarinet), Bach as performed by Glenn Gould -- also Coldplay, the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, John Michael Talbot, Great Big Sea, Ashley MacIsaac, the Barra MacNeils.

MOVIES: Braveheart, Star Trek 2-4, 6, First Contact & the new one, superhero films (esp. Marvel Studios & X-Men First Class), Into Great Silence (Le Grand Silence), original Star Wars trilogy as originally edited.

BOOKS: The Aeneid of Virgil, The Iliad & The Odyssey of Homer, The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Foundation series by Asimov, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Farmer Giles of Ham by Tolkien, St. Leo the Great on the Incarnation, anything by GK Chesterton whether fiction or non.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Parthenon twice in two days.

Teach, Learn, Share

If only Latin were easily shareable! I also have a knowledge of early Christian monasticism, Christology, theology more broadly, Roman history, ancient epic (esp. Homer, Virgil, Apollonius of Rhodes)

Countries I’ve Visited

Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Cyprus

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