CURRENT MISSION

Truth Beauty Freedom Love

ABOUT ME

I am a pilgrim, poet, painter on my celluloid canvas, prayer warrior, priestess, peace lover, friend. I like to be spontaneous. And I want to live my life like I believe God is real.

PHILOSOPHY

It's important to live for Truth, to fight for love, and allow grace to permeate in your life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love staying with people who know the town I'm in so I can get tips on the best places to see, and hopefully along the way create a community of long-distance travel pals.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been road-tripping across America using Couchsurfers and it has been AWESOME! When I settle down long enough to have my own place, I can't wait to start hosting other people. In the meantime, I'm excited to meet people in the places that they live, and exchange travel stories.

Interests

I've got nomadic tendencies. I like to climb rocks. And I get trigger happy with my Nikon. My heart is in missions and humanitarian work, cafes and spoken word poetry, acoustic guitar and beautiful lyrics.

• arts
• poetry
• beauty
• drinking
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• jazz
• guitar
• spoken word
• backpacking
• budget travel

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: to name a few - Princess Bride, Coming to America, Moulin Rouge, Million Dollar Baby, I Am Sam, The Matrix, Signs, Dogville, Amelie, Juno, Shawshank Redemption, Braveheart, Volver, Love, Actually, The Godfather, V for Vendetta, Becoming Jane, Pride and Prejudice (the miniseries), All About Eve, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Life is Beautiful...

MUSIC: all sorts, but some artists you'll find in my iTunes list - Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, The Shins, The Beatles, Nirvana, Damien Rice, Michael Jackson, Jason Mraz, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, Jack Johnson, The Format, The Decemberists, The Sound of Music, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Wicked, The Lion King, Rent, Lifehouse, Casting Crowns, Third Day, Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, Phil wickham, Hillsong, Jeremy Camp, Coffey, Anderson...

BOOKS: The Bible, Animal Dreams, Harry Potter, Night, My Name Is Asher Lev, Veronica Decides to Die, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Eat Pray Love, The Joy Luck Club, Pride and Prejudice (and more recently the one with zombies too!), Jane Eyre, Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Great Gatsby

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A travel buddy and I were in Santorini, Greece in November 2008. We had a very late ferry to Rodos (around 1AM). As budget travelers (of the most ghetto of kinds! haha), we didn't want to pay for another night. So, we first hopped over a balcony to stay under a restaurant's overhang for the afternoon, watched the sunset, journaled, read, and napped, then headed to the town's main plaza. By nightfall, it was quite cold. With our luggage and layered look, we looked quite homeless! But this man in a suit, his name was Rod (we'll never forget him) noticed our plight and how ridiculous we looked (laughed at us a little, but in good humor--we laughed with him). He insisted we join him for a drink inside the warm restaurant. We had a pleasant conversation, told us a story when he was in the same situation when he was in his 20s, then also budget backpacker, a man took him for a drink and gave him money, this total stranger. He never forgot that. At the very end he handed each of us a 50 Euro bill, but made us promise that we would pay it forward one day if we ever ran into some desperate-looking backpackers. Cool guy, good experience, and I won't forget my promise.

Teach, Learn, Share

I like quotes.

"A woman should be so lost in God that a man would have to seek God to find her" - Maya Angelou

"There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.)" - Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz

"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light." 1 Peter 2:9

"Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." 1 John 3:16

"Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have."

“Be the change that you want to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi

"It gave me great hope, because I knew I would not come back alone. I wanted to come here again with someone I loved and say, 'Look.'" - Paul Theroux, The Kingdom by the Sea

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." - Degas

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." - Jonathan Swift

"Develop the negative into a positive picture." - Lauryn Hill

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." - Ryunosuke Satoro

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russell

"All that wander are not lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings

"Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free." - V for Vendetta

"my feet is my only carriage" - bob marley

"...and what is it to be young in years and suddenly wakened to the anguish, the urgency of life?" - susan sontag

"Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up." - V for Vendetta

"The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation!" - Rent

"You're killing me, Smalls!" - The Sandlot

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Dominican Republic, United Kingdom, United States

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