CURRENT MISSION

getting to the top of the silk ladder

ABOUT ME

I like making art of all kinds... I just mean that in the sense of art as a sensory experience that exists just for itself, or mostly for itself. You know, painting as extreme excitement for your eyes, cooking is extremely exciting for your mouth, acrobatics for your muscles, etc.
I enjoy conversations, generally, but I prefer to have them while doing things.

PHILOSOPHY

I think that when you have an impulse to do something you should act on it exactly then, when all the things you feel are still true. If you do that, then you're listening and feeling and being intuitive. Still impulsive, but also informed. If you don't... if you let it fester, and make it into a rationalized plan, then you fool yourself into thinking that it's no longer impulsive, which it is, and you also become reckless as soon as the feelings and situations that create an impulse disappear. You act without intention.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd be happy to be a contact in Dallas to show you that it's not all bad.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In most of the house-shares I lived in, someone had a couch surfing account and we hosted people often. One time when we had a particularly cool surfer over, we all went dumpsterdiving and found a huge trashbag of roses and carnations. We took the bag down to the college and threaded the roses through the holes in the masonry. It was pretty cool.
I also showed people around Prescott when I lived there a couple times, took them to hula hooping meet ups, up to rooftops that were accessible, to the hotel pool you can sneak into. I knew that town rather better than I know this city, though. I'm trying here.

Interests

acrobatics, juggling, hula hoops, fire spinning, reading non fiction for fun, photography, painting, stenciling, pianos, ukuleles, accordions, guitars, building things, walking, baking, cooking, dancing, minor transgressions, race and ethnicity in the law, xican@ history

• arts
• photography
• coloring
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• baking
• walking
• reading
• billiards
• juggling
• painting
• camping
• surfing
• history
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

I particularly like Billie Holiday, that one Ventures album Ventures in Space, Nina Simone (especially Baltimore, Forbidden Fruit, and It Is Finished), Inti-Illimani, Prince... actually, I'm trying to change direction with music. There's a bunch of stuff I like but which I'm trying to move on about.
Conversations with Other Women, The World The Flesh and The Devil, and Underground are my favorite movies.
Right now my favorite book is a book of medical pathologies with lots of pictures that I'm using to make textures for paintings of. Little chocolates with cirrhotic livers inside.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This one time I was walking on a drainpipe and there were a few monarch butterflies around. The farther out I walked away from camp, the more butterflies appeared. Off in the distance, I saw a tree which was entirely the wrong color for the season. None of the other trees were changing color yet, it was only very early fall. This tree looked bright orange... and like the wind was constantly ruffling it. I walked right up to it - the leaves were made of monarch butterflies. Completely covered.... it was a big tree, too. You could barely reach the lower branches. I touched one, and all the butterflies left the spot. When I removed my hand, they came right back.
I don't have any pictures of that moment... I forgot my camera three consecutive days.

Teach, Learn, Share

Yes! I can teach you hula hoop tricks, how to cook really good food (tejano and baking mostly), some chords on the ukulele, how to put linux on yoru system, or I don't know... most of the things I do are transferable. I like sharing.

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States