CURRENT MISSION

To be full of wonder. To be a good person.

ABOUT ME

I'm a skeptic but an optimist because that seems my best option. I spent my formative years basking in the fields of cornbread, fried okra, and chitlins of Alabama, but I escaped without much of an accent or an -ism.

A few life milestones. I got married a few year ago and I recently received Master's degrees in Social Work and Documentary Filmmaking at the University of Washington. I am pursuing careers in social justice filmmaking and homelessness housing.

PHILOSOPHY

"Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe those who are in hiding--escaping encounters, avoiding surprises, protecting their property, ignoring their fantasies, restricting their feelings--maybe those people, people who won't talk to rednecks, or if they're rednecks won't talk to intellectuals, people who're afraid to get their shoes muddy or their noses wet, afraid to be a long shot to win, afraid to jaywalk, cogitate, osculate, levitate, rock it, bop it, sock it, or bark at the moon. Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. But there are folks who want to know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it--and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth nor the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas." (Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting when feasible, exploring, showing off Seattle, telling folks I meet and know about CS, sometimes organizing Seattle CS events.

Interests

middle school science fairs, dancing to 80's music (or any music, really), Oregon Country Fair, doggy fashion shows, greeting card making, philosophy, theatrical lighting, accents, people watching, sushi, harmonica, growing old, wigs, Halloween, Harper's Magazine, MC battles

• fashion
• photography
• documentaries
• film making
• dancing
• music
• science
• social work

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Boards of Canada, Magnetic Fields, Plaid, The Books, Antony and the Johnsons, Kimya Dawson, Grateful Dead, Emancipator, Blue Scholars, Lavender Diamond, Flight of the Conchords, Leonard Cohen

Movies: Storytelling, My Dinner With Andre

Books: I am currently reading Identity by Milan Kundera

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Met Carrot Top while dressed as a carrot, had Speed Levitch hook up with a friend in my bed

"I want to live in a country where peoples' favorite activity is to be vulnerable in public." - Speed Levitch

Teach, Learn, Share

Politcal theory, harmonica, valentine-making, photography, filmmaking, water aerobics

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