CURRENT MISSION
surfing in freiburg.

ABOUT ME (most of this profile has not been updated from 2012, I just added a few poems though.)

i hate doing these things.

i am a phd student and I work as an editor. I have been a teacher, farmer, bartender, paralegal.

i am a fairly normal guy, i read alot. i like to discuss ideas and hear what other people have to say about life, politics, labor. etc.

PHILOSOPHY

purity of heart is to will one thing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

im hosting now.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

couchsurfed in bloomington IL, and in Dallas TX, hosted in Memphis, TN and Chicago, IL. Now surfing in europe.

Interests

Social and Political Thought, Boxing, Farming, Memory

Poems!

TREES ARE PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE ARE TREES by john haines
The dreaming man sat at his table,
listening in the forest of paper
and shattering glass.
Words were straws in the wind.
He thought hard of certain rocks,
of water at the roots of things,
and tree-mouths gummed with sap.
And there in the crowded commons
three hundred striding people—
gesturing, eating the air—
halted around him, suddenly quiet:
They sprouted leaves and cones,
they wore strange bark for clothing
and gently lifted their arms.

• breakfast
• politics
• surfing
• christian
• boxing
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

steinbeck, kierkegaard, walker percy.

van morrison, bob dylan, neil young, tom waits, grateful dead, gram parsons, emmylou harris, back, mozart, arvo part, nas

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A few days ago, Jessie Jackson was eating breakfast next to me in a diner.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know philosophy pretty well. I know christianity too. i would be willing to teach what i know about these things to people. Though I don't like the idea of teaching these things, i would prefer to share what I think, to offer my opinion, to start a conversation.
i am trying to learn the harmonica. maybe in a while i could share this skill with folks.
I can make a mean loaf of bread. I can teach you this, its easy. .
I am a decent barber. I cut my own and it looks all right. So, I can give your hair a trim if you like. ha.

Countries I’ve Visited

Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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