CURRENT MISSION

every moment is pregnant with potential gestures of beauty

ABOUT ME

Currently taking a year off to travel, walk, and teach around the world. Hoping to begin a PhD next year studying the relationship between walking and memorial.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is constantly unfolding, I try my best to get out of the way and let things happen the way they need to -- my own ideas of how things *should* be pale in beauty and poetics compared to the bigger picture.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm always open to meeting people and discussing anything and everything. I love walking and talking. Also playing music and crazy art projects. I've been told that I'm low maintenance and an easy and respectful guest.

Interests

music, history, art, bocci ball, chess, dancing, stories, coffee, tennis, inventing games, exploring the senses, breathing, flirting, eating, cooking, walking, backgammon, poetry, baths, analyzing, reading, meditating, singing, watching snow fall, watching rain fall, watching other things fall, watching people embracing, watching people embrace while falling, airport reunions, train station reunions, forgiveness, grace, beauty, truth, kindness, integrity, empathy, courage, humility, brilliance, fierceness, flow, flexibility, letting go, intention without tension

• arts
• poetry
• singing
• beauty
• dancing
• cooking
• coffee
• walking
• gardening
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• piano
• tennis
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

FILMS: Cinema Paradiso, L'Auberge Espaniol, A bout de Souffle, La Fille sur le Pont, My name is Ivan, Amelie, Fitzcarraldo, Zorba the Greek, Happiness, Funny Games, Terms of Endearment, Vernon Florida, Red Dawn, Magnolia, Delicatesen, Ran, Seven Samuri, A Man for all Seasons, The Cook The Thief his Wife and her Lover, 8 1/2 Women, Stevie, Baraka

MUSIC: The Magnetic Fields, Armenian folk music, Greek folk music, Turkish folk music, Belle & Sebastian, Depeche Mode, The Clash, Low, The Innocence Mission, Marissa Nadler, Joan Baez, Victor Jara, Billy Bragg, Digable Planets, Wu-Tang Clan, June Tabor, Morrissey, Gang Starr, Iron & Wine, Odetta, Richard Hawley, The Field Mice, Mojave 3, Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, Ian & Sylvia, Francoise Hardy, St. Etienne, Momus, Stereo Total, Bembeya Jazz National, Emmylou Harris, Beirut, Jesus & Mary Chain, Jaques Brel, Ariel Pink, The Raveonettes, Astrud Gilberto, Henryk Gorecki, Maurice Ravel, W.A. Mozart, Michael Nyman, Lou Harrison, Pauline Oliveros, June Carter-Cash, Skinny Puppy, Prince Buster, The English Beat, King Tubby, Heavenly, Kimya Dawson

BOOKS/AUTHORS: Kundera, Salinger, Camus, Wilde, Ginsberg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Philip Larkin, ee cummings

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

an old chinese man doing tai chi in a park, and then going over and playing on the teeter-totter

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH - guitar, piano, music theory, music history, english

LEARN - to cook better, languages, clarinet, gardening, landscaping

SHARE - anything!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cuba, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States