CURRENT MISSION

Freshly retired and busy enjoying life, making a documentary movie, writing articles, gardening, cooking, hanging out with friends

ABOUT ME

Musician, gardener, anti-capitalist eco-feminist, mother and friend

PHILOSOPHY

All for one and one for all...that includes the animals. Our forms of self governance should reflect our consciousness of all living on the same lifeboat called mother earth. Let's respect and honor her. I'm for no nations. No borders. No hate. No war. I am for love of all varieties, freedom in all including sexual expression, and I love to learn all about new ways of seeing the world thru other's eyes.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to start hosting, but I've been hosting people thru other people without having to use couch surf yet....I'm also travelling alot now to see friends and family but occasionally will need a place to stay.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm new at this. But I'm a natural born hostess and tour guide so I'm sure it will be fun. I've been in San Francisco a very long time and love to go all over to different places and I am still discovering it. I did stay in a couch surfing house in Madrid a few years ago-Casa Paloma. Had a friend who lived there and didn't even know I would be sharing the living room mattress with a few others...I had a great time.

Interests

I was an "activist" (we called it a revolutionary) for many years and I now participate in varying activities from demonstrations to movies and dances for a cause.I still think the world needs to change alot and spend alot of time trying to do constructive stuff. I love to talk, listen, dance, read, make music and be in nature. I also like to cook with lots of friends and eat it together. Although I am older, I am usually with a multigenerational bunch as well as multiracial/sexual/and multi cultural....I am a living piece of history having participated in most people's movements here in the U.S.starting with civil rights for African descended people in the early 60s.I can take you on tours of where to get good organic food, to urban food gardens, or to the sites of historic protests, and/or to current protests and community activities. We can also go to any world music happening while you're here. And international film festivals (we have so many). And then there's the free stuff to do. What I won't do with you is go shopping unless you want to know where the best second hand stores are.

• animals
• writing
• documentaries
• festivals
• film festivals
• dancing
• civil rights
• dining
• cooking
• organic food
• gardening
• shopping
• movies
• traveling
• music
• world music
• surfing
• history
• nursing
• tourism
• tours

Music, Movies, and Books

Too many to list. I love everything by Alice Walker and Isabel Allende.Starhawk's novel the Fifth Sacred Thing. I love documentaries like "Faubourg Treme: the Hidden History of Black New Orleans",by Dawn Logsdon, Amina: Mixed Feelings by Laurette Mokrani, Fire on the Marmara by David Segarra, and Mars at Sunrise. I listen to loads of arabic and african music and love the fusion music that comes out of Paris.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was honored to be part of many movements for social change here in the U.S. and work with so many amazing humans that I can't even begin to describe it...I also had the privilege of working with companeros from the revolutionary movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador (and a few other places) over the years. Watching a country transform and watching children grow up and take leadership and transform their reality is pretty exciting. My adoptive son Willy started the Gay Rights movement in El Salvador and I was able to make a small documentary about it. This video, (together with other documents) was used to get political asylum in the U.S. for some gay men from El Salvador. There is now a vibrant Gay community and access to meds for AIDS in El Salvador. I am happy to be alive and see the progress we are making at the same time we go backwards in other ways and are destroying the planet...

Teach, Learn, Share

I play a little bit of many instruments. I know how to make compost and grow alot of my own organic food. I was a nurse for many many years and know alot of healing and first aid.