CURRENT MISSION

Catalunya! Catalunya! Catalunya! Writing novels, and launching my perfume house

ABOUT ME

I am a devotee of the way of Tea.

I am a daydreamer.

I am a perfumer.

I am a woman sometimes.

I have green eyes and black hair.

I suffer from depression, idealism and too many thoughts: I am a writer.

Before I die I want to live beautifully. That's it.

My favourite food is rose.

I wish my blood were the colour of opals.

My greatest sin is loving silk.

I find it hard to talk to people.

I have many names.

I need to live on or by or over the water. I want my shelter to be alive with plants and butterflies and bees. I want to spin and weave and pluck on strings, and play elegant games with stones and shells, and incense. I want to conjour colour from rocks and leaves and adorn myself and my cloth and my walls in celebration of the beauty of earth. I want to share it all with people I love.

I wish I didn't have to deal with money.

I want to live somewhere abundant with food.

I believe the earth should be dark at night so that we can wonder at all the light out there in the sky.

I have a brother. He is a dog. He is a person. I know this because he is the person I love most in the world.

PHILOSOPHY

Chanoyu.

My daily life is my temple and my religion.

"Love has to come, suddenly, with a great clap of thunder and a lightning flash, a tempest from heaven that falls upon your life, like a devastation, scatters your ideals like leaves and hurls your very soul into the abyss."

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Being open and sharing the time.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have met lots of strangers in the house I shared with 15 other people. There was usually a guest staying. Some of the deepest connections I've ever felt were made over the course of a few hours or days, with people I've never heard from since, and will probably never meet again.

One man I met on Couchsurfing changed the way I see myself forever.

Interests

Tea.
Love.
Beauty.
Things that grow.
Natural cycles.
Self-sufficiency.
Finding peace.
Folklore.
Stories.
Scent.
Food.
Poetry.
The sea, ships with sails, naval history.
The human need for art

Arts: Perfume, Music, Cloth, Arranging colour and form in various media, Putting words in the right order.

I like old stuff: old clothes, old buildings, old objects, old trees, old stories, old languages

Aerostats > Aerodynes

• dogs
• arts
• writing
• poetry
• folklore
• beauty
• perfumes
• dining
• clothing
• music
• communications
• history
• languages
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

A two-minute sampling from the top of my mind:

Patrick O'Brian, Chopin, Beethoven, Wodehouse, The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach), Harry Potter, Nabokov, Sunny Day Real Estate, Al Bowlly, The Kinks, Rushmore, The Bartimaeus trilogy, His Dark Materials, Purcell, Elliott Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Joyce, Ovid, J.S.Bach, Emil Gilels, Nabokov, Jasper Fforde, XTC, Amelie, BBC's Pride and Prejudice, Robin Hobb, Austen, Virginia Woolf, Mythology, Kafka, The Way of Tea, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chekhov, Opal Whitely, Titus Groan + Gormenghast, Susanna Clarke, The Virgin Suicides, Costume drama generally, Angela Carter, The Colour of Pomegranates, Richard Siken, Sylvia Plath, Peter Pan, Coppola's Marie Antoinette, Memories of Matsuko, The Paper Kites, Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Placebo's Placebo, Michel Gondry, Takeshi Kitano

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've given myself wholly to love, survived the breaking of my whole being, and went back for more.

I stood on one of the domes of St. Paul's cathedral and saw the city of London in the midnight light. We inhabited the roof like a newfound land and were delighted with our own good fortune.

I held my baby brother in my hand. Now he's an elder, who weighs almost as much as me. And he's been sublimely beautiful, for every moment of his life.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can give of myself. That is, a lot of things.
People tell me I have a stillness about me that brings calm to the space I inhabit.

I want to make a home. It's not something I can do by myself, not really.

I have this dream of going so far out to sea, that I can't see the land. The thought terrifies me, but I want to experience that.

I'd love to build a hot air balloon :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States