CURRENT MISSION

sing to the roots of trees

ABOUT ME

I've lived four or five lives out of my allotted nine so far. I've been a philosophy student, a pilgrim, a gardener, a builder, a community organizer and a yoga teacher. I kickstarted an album last year, full of sad and silly songs about love and life and finding out that God is a marvelously interesting person. I'm deeply committed to the philosophy that everyone is inherently good, and cruelty, though it can be immense, is ultimately a surface defect.

PHILOSOPHY

Breathe. Sing. Breathe. Pray. Breathe.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My brother and I started our CS careers cooking and cleaning at the the Montreal Couchsurfing collective for the week after the site crashed back in 2006. We've since surfed across the country and hosted wherever we had a bed to share.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Mucho.

Interests

bhakti yoga, sustainable living, music theory, music sans theory, mirror neurons, walking barefoot

• singing
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• meditation
• walking
• music
• guitar
• blues
• boxing
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Son House, The Black Keys, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Mississipi John Hurt, Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin, Paul Simon, Van Morrison

Directors: Kaufman, Gondry, the Andersons, the Coens, Jarmusch
Funny people: Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy.
I will randomly quote: Wayne's World, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club
Recently loved: Locke, The Intouchables, Undefeated

Books: reading the Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Got born.

Teach, Learn, Share

teach: vegetarian cooking, kirtan and japa meditation, trauma healing techniques, cowboy chords

learn: blues guitar and improv, Spanish and French, CSS

share: my lunch (except for the juice box)

Countries I’ve Visited

Guatemala, Mexico, Philippines, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Indonesia, United States

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