CURRENT MISSION

Taking my brother, who is about to graduate high school, on an epic trip to the southwest, a land he has yet to explore. Helping him to see how big, beautiful, wondrous, and diverse the world is

PHILOSOPHY

I feel that we lived in a time when our current economic and governing systems are estranged from the populations they are set to serve. I wish to live my life with a sense of community breaking from these institutions which wish to improperly define what it is to be human and returning to a more harmonious existence with myself, the earth, and spirituality. Do all things with Love and seek Truth.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted several individuals at my former place of residence, and have enjoyed showing several more CSers around my home town. It is always a joy to meet people from varying cultures to examine my own thoughts, make new friends, and more generally have a good time.

Interests

"If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world."

• arts
• socializing
• dumpster diving
• hiking
• medicine
• mental health
• environmentalism
• jesus christ

Music, Movies, and Books

Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Elliott Smith, Daft Punk, Blonde Redhead, Portishead, Modest Mouse, Beirut, Gotan Project, Cat Power, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Explosions in the Sky, Saul Williams, CocoRosie, Sufjan Stevens, Radiohead, Belle & Sebastian, Neutral Milk Hotel, Django Reinhardt, Gillian Welch, Old Time, Folk

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

After going down to the gulf coast following Katrina to help rebuild, I went to the ocean. The hurricane had made it such that the water was only two feet deep for hundreds of feet from the shoreline. On the particular night I visited a thick wall of fog had rolled in making the water visible for only a little ways out. I walked into the water and fog, going so deep that eventually I was entirely surrounded by fog. When completely immersed I could not tell the shore from the ocean, east from west. Everywhere around me was this transient gray, fluid and yet impermeable. No matter how much I walked in one direction or another what I saw was unchanged. Besides a starry sky out in the back woods it is the closest I have ever come to a feeling of the infinite.

though it was a simple experience it was pretty amazing to me

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a fair amount about general health, specifically mental health. Within this comes an understanding of a variety of therapeutic modalities. Aspects of this can be useful inter or intrapersonally for people in all seasons of life.

I have also made a earth bag house before and can share what I have learned from that experience (see pictures)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I know a fair amount about general health, specifically mental health. Within this comes an understanding of a variety of therapeutic modalities. Aspects of this can be useful inter or intrapersonally for people in all seasons of life.

I have also made a earth bag house before and can share what I have learned from that experience (see pictures)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Belize, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Ireland, Italy, Peru, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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