CURRENT MISSION

In Burlington Vt

ABOUT ME

I enjoy learning about native plants and their uses for healing and food. Primative skills and low impact modern technoligies. I dont think of myself as an environmentalist I just want to do things that seem less silly in the long run. I am a meat eater but understand others arnt and respect that.

PHILOSOPHY

Live a life as fully as possible within reason. Learn Grow Expand Respect the lives others have lived and the knowlage they are willing to share. I believe it is hard to get mad at someone if you really understand even if you dont personally agree. I also think the hand of Karma, Fate, God, the universal force or whatever you feel comfortable calling it requires you to be willing to be the nurturer or the enforcer. To deny this is to not understand the overall balance.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like to test myself, I find I can do my best learnin when I read or hear about something then go try it for myself, that puts me out in the field with books pretty often. I hope to learn enough to be able to travle to Alaska in the next few seasons. My theme if you will is live life or die trying.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I dont have any through this site but I have more or less done it for my entire life. Either I had a couch to crash on or I gave one.Some of the places I have surfed through are Lakeland Fl, Burlington Vermont, Pacific city Oregon, to name a few. I have several offers that I havent had the oppertunity to explore yet, but I aint dead yet either.

Interests

Well... That is an evolution all its own. I am currently gearing up to do a winter in Vermont exposed to all that this rugged weather has to offer. I study the ways of native peoples in whatever area I am in to better understand how they lived in such extremes. I dont do everything the same because I dont want to deny the advances and understandings that the giants of thought found previous to my time and during it, but I will stand on the shoulders of those who studied and came before me. I dont think I can really understand anything till I experience it myself. I perform experiments to test the "knowlage" I discover in old books and folks I meet.

• books
• performing arts
• dining
• running
• fishing

Music, Movies, and Books

Lots of plant books and old old stuff. some of my personal faves are anything with Robin Willams, Tom Hankes, Ed Norton, Mell Gibson, Kevin Spacy, and well You get the Idea

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I Have Loved

Teach, Learn, Share

Anyone who wants to know what I can teach and will respect the "dues" I have paied to aquire that knowlage. And has Knowlage to share on the same terms.
(The simplest things sometimes take a lot longer than you think, it took me like 15-16 hrs just to figure out what part of the willow to make fishing line from after I read about the principle in a book about Pacific NW natives.)I could come right out and tell you how and show you but I have too much respect for the tree that tought me.

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States