CURRENT MISSION

Seeking the daily pleasures and joys that the world has to offer

ABOUT ME

We met at the University of California Berkeley years ago, Jamin was studying Biochemistry/Neurology, and I, Psychology/Education. We like to think of ourselves as a socially aware, environmentally conscious, diverse couple.

Jamin is taking a break from studying medicine to dedicate more time to his tutoring company, and a surf company he is currently founding. I just finished my graduate studies in educational psychology.

We have been involved in a program called Healing Hearts Across Borders within which we provide psychological, medical and dental care to impoverished individuals and families in the neighboring communities of Tijuana, Mexico. I am Mexican-American and Jamin is part Native-American, German and Finnish. We are both fluent in English and Spanish and our French and Italian could use a little (okay, a lot of) work.

We embrace people from all walks of life and seek to continually have our eyes opened to the more nuanced facets of humanity. We currently live in Solana Beach, California and have attempted to immerse ourselves in an environment in which myriad cultures, sexualities, mindsets and languages thrive and coexist in some reasonable semblance of unity. We are relatively calm, patient, easy-going people.

We are gardeners: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.570897943814.2251742.3313998&type=1¬if_t=like

*For those who might offer us a home in which to stay:

We enjoy cooking, dancing, singing, art, lovely wine and the general outdoors. We enjoy stimulating and challenging conversation but are content to keep to ourselves. We are a very low-maintenance couple and despite the fact that we look forward to meeting new people, we are not seeking anything other than a good night's sleep.

Jamin's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/jamin.luoto

PHILOSOPHY

Try to accept whatever the present moment contains as though you had chosen it.

Interests

Culture, the ocean, people, social equality, tolerance, life

• fish
• arts
• culture
• singing
• dancing
• education
• environment
• cooking
• wine
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• fishing
• backpacking
• communications
• teaching
• languages
• medicine
• psychology
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: World music, Classical, Classic rock, most anything produced by talented, thoughtful artists.

Literature: The alchemist, Siddhartha, Calivin and Hobbes, Tintin, Catch 22, Electric Kool-aid acid test, Grapes of wrath, One flew over the cuckoo's nest- Ken Keasey, Mountains beyond mountains- Tracy Kidder, Beowulf- some unknown badass!, Homer's Illiad, The republic and most other Plato, The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger, The unbearable lightness of being, Good omens, The sex lives of cannibals, Topic of Cancer, topic of Capercorn, Insomnia... a fair number of Millers shit, A Crack in the Cosmic Egg- J. Chilton Pierce, Meditations on First Philosophy- Descartes, On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, A Book for All and None, and The Antichrist, Curse on Christianity... Friedrich Nietzsche is Ubermeinch!!, The Metamorphosis- Kafka, The martian chronicles Bradbury

Movies: primarily good documentaries and foreign films. As long as it's not standard Hollywood crap, we'll sit through it.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We have spent many months backpacking the world but have only begun to scratch the surface of the traveling we hope to do in our lives. Jamin has seen turtles, whales, sharks, seals, and regularly surfs with dolphins here in San Diego - he has seen everything in the ocean since he is part fish. https://www.facebook.com/notes/jamin-luoto/deft-delphinidae/10150643706802385

Teach, Learn, Share

The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis. The female praying mantis often eats the male after mating while still alive!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United States

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