CURRENT MISSION

It's a three step process, you see, it takes one to free.

ABOUT ME

Lately
I've been
Standing in the mud with a fist
FULL of weeds.

PHILOSOPHY

Love. Listen. Learn.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Happiness is a pile of friends in a rather small chair.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Sometimes
Sometimes
a past and present collide
into one
drawn
immutable moment
and
the impressions made are
too short
lived
and too long
revisited.

Interests

Climbing
Poetry
Coffee
Picking berries
Camping in hammocks
Rivers
India
Volunteer work
Sociology
Biking
environment/Environment/"environment"
Picnics
Swing Sets
and of course Music

• poetry
• education
• environment
• coffee
• drinking
• traveling
• volunteer work
• music
• cycling
• camping
• rock climbing
• teaching
• sociology
• volunteering
• beaches
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
The Brothers Karmazov- Dostoevsky
Identity and Violence- Amartya Sen
Pedagogy of the Oppressed- Paulo Friere
100 Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Coney Island of the Mind- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Mutant Message Down Under- Marlo Morgan
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle- Haruki Murakami
You Shall Know Our Velocity- Dave Eggers
Ecological Rift-- Foster, Clark and York
Corporate Crops-- Pechlaner
Risk Society-- Ulrich Beck
The Great Transformation-- Karl Polanyi
First the Seed-- Kloppenburg

Films:
Amelie, Waking Life, Harvie Krumpet, Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I worked in Ooty, India over the summer in 2006 with "untouchable" children, and it took my heart.

The next summer I worked in Palapye, Botswana doing AIDS education and I learned I could live content just about anywhere in the world. But I could not see myself doing organized group short-term volunteer work ever again. I've had nightmares.

I spent my new years in 2010 on a beach in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua retrieving empty liquor bottles from the shore and realized so many who drink and who travel still have so much to learn about respect.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Botswana, India, Nicaragua, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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