CURRENT MISSION

To boldly seek out new people and friendships and live life with an open mind and heart while making some artwork .

ABOUT ME

Generally, I am a strong willed, kind, considerate, humble. helpful and loving person. I try to keep an open mind and be understanding of everyone I meet. I have a somewhat mercurial personality. At times I can be quiet and thoughtful and at others raucous and feisty. I am fascinated with all of the beauty, intricacies and complexities of the world, and want very much to see and learn more.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe that life is short and we have only one chance to live. I want to do the most I can with the chances I have to create beauty and spread love because I have seen a violence, poverty, and despair and have experienced some of that and want to see what trying to help other people improve those problems would do.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just recently heard about the CS project but am very exited about the possibilities it allows for pan global friendships and understanding.

Currently I am unable to properly host anyone because I am in between graduating and grad school and am in transit almost constantly. I plan to host travelers as soon as I have an apartment of my own which should be sometime next year.

I am going to be traveling for the first time to Europe in January and am interested in finding places to stay while in Germany during which time I will be looking for employment and places to show my work.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am a newcomer to couch-surfer and am ready and rarin' to couch surf given the opportunity.

Interests

Music, Art, Philosophy, Nature, Travel, Literature, Science, Art History, History, Architecture. I am interested in building a house one day and making it a work of art inside and out. `

• arts
• literature
• architecture
• beauty
• dining
• cooking
• gardening
• clothing
• chess
• traveling
• crochet
• knitting
• painting
• music
• guitar
• violin
• art history
• history
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Ill watch almost anything, but I enjoy movies like Delacatessen, To have and have and have not, The Professional, La Femme Nikita, Ran, The 400 Blows, any Charlie Chaplin Movie, and Any Marx Brothers Movie.

Music:Mostly Indie, 1970s Punk/Glam, 1960s Rude Boy Jamaican Ska,Jazz, Blues, Rap and Soul. My favorites are The Rolling Stones, Belle and Sebastian, Coltrain, Davis, Blossom Dearie, Billie Holiday, The Kinks, Prince Buster, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Sybille Baier, The Cramps, The Beatles, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Mogwai, Prince, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone et cetera.

Books:Anais Nin, Isak Dinesen, Dorothy Parker, Isabel Allende, Oscar Wilde, Carson McCullers, Alice in Wonderland, Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allen Poe, Kafka, Jane Austen, Umberto Eco, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Dumas, Italo Calvino, Ovid's Metamorphoses, I read a lot of biographies of artists and writers I admire. I read plays by Shakespeare, Rostand and Moliere. Some of the poems I read most often are by Emily Dickenson, Poe, and Dorothy Parker

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have seen whales in the Pacific Ocean, a very old and mysterious maze in Rhode Island, I have seen ancient Cliff Dwellings in Mesa Verde, to name a few. I really hope all of the truly amazing things I will see are going to be in the future.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can offer an endless resource of random and specific creative skills and perspectives. I can teach people how to make clothes, solder circuits, build a webpage, cook food from a variety of countries, make or maintain stained glass windows, make jewelry, mosaic their kitchen or bathroom, play violin or guitar, make a garden, make a painting, print, or sculpture, play backgammon or chess, knit, crochet, fix lamps, and a variety of other "useful" skills. Haha.