CURRENT MISSION

relearning the language of flowers

ABOUT ME

I have natural hair and love languages. I only have brothers, no sister. I play guitar and love to chat, host, cook, and live life.

PHILOSOPHY

love is first. this includes patience and caring, forgiveness and action. I feel passionate about empowering women and connecting people to each other in a deep, real, meaningful way, either by helping people communicate, understand differences or however else I can. I feel like the building blocks of interaction are communicating caring warmth, understanding feelings, and communicating value in the person intrinsically.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have a couch available and I love to travel

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

having people in my home has been a fulfilling experience. I have lived in intentional community since 2010 and I have a very open view of belongings. I believe that my home should be used for others as well as myself.

Interests

music, languages, animals, children, cultures

• animals
• cats
• dogs
• chickens
• rabbits
• cooking
• baking
• crafts
• flowers
• reading
• traveling
• knitting
• origami
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• christian
• fencing
• geography
• languages
• logic
• psychology
• religion
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

I have very diverse tastes, but in any category, i prefer comedy.
In music I like anything from classical to reggae, punk, techno, goth, rock (classical, alternative, Indy, etc.), house music, folk, World music, country, and rap, but my very favorite is Ska, which i refuse to say is dead, because i keep it alive!

in movies, I like amelie, fight club, pricess bride, tommy boy, and so many more. I do not own very many movies, but I do have napolean dynamite and fiddler on the roof, among others.

I love reading! some of my favorites are:
Good Omens, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, On Longing, Catch 22, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5,
classics such as: Chaucer and Shakespeare,
books about spiritual topics like: The Call, To Be a Jew, The Tanakh, New Testament, and Quran

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have seen the shadows of raindrops and marveled. I have slept on Bible Point in the open air and climbed to the top of Emerald Mountain. I came within a foot of a hummingbird on the side of Eagle Cliff above Moraine Valley. I saw a dried-out lizard on the street in St Bernard Parish, Louisianna in the spring after Katrina. I have seen people reconcile differences and I give the best hugs and back rubs. I have seen my little brothers grow from baby-size to teenager-size.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you [about]:
guitar, music theory/how to write a song, Chinese tea ceremony, listening skills, crafts, needlework, geography & map reading, budgeting, simple paper folding (i.e. how to make an origami crane), high school algebra, high school chemestry, knitting, sewing, reading, english, editing, linguistics, driving/Illinois rules of the road, how to write a paper, how to make a really good cake, cooking, baking, cleaning, fencing, decor, flower arrangment, philosophy (esp. of science), logic, religions (esp. Judiasm & Christianity), "the bible," psychology, animals (esp. cockatiels, rabbits, sheep, pikas, chickens, dogs, cats, and sharks), high altitude sickness, hiking, how to choose a sleeping bag, and more!

I would like to learn [about]:
anything you are passionate about, how to feel feelings in a deeper and more healthy way, how to communicate better, how to be more organized, how to make creme broule, how to fold more complicated origami, how to grow a bonsai, how to read and interperate a barometer, how to accept more kinds of people in a natural-feeling way, how to be less (and more) socially akward, how to give my guitar songs more "oomph," more strumming patterns on the guitar...I am a generally curious person and easily amused.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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