CURRENT MISSION

Play in a blues band.

ABOUT ME

All day, every day, I follow my heart. Worldly goods don't distract me. I'm never bored as I walk and take the bus, thinking about current projects.

I remember the grownups discussing whether we should be in the Second World War or not after they listened to Hitler's speeches replayed with translations on the radio.

PHILOSOPHY

Apparently, I don't need anything I wanted, because I don't have it, and I'm blissful.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Currently I have no place to host. Occasionally I post.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Since I joined this group, I have hosted several couchsurfers on my boat in Los Angeles, stayed with a host in Germany, helping with her house and garden, and stayed with a host in London for one week. Before the internet was invented, several visitors stopped over at our family farm. Some stayed for years at a time.

Interests

Jazz, writing, home schooling, forthright honesty, self-help peer support, homestead farming, independence, green business, peace, survival (but I'm not hysterical about it).

• writing
• gardening
• homesteading
• survival
• jazz
• piano
• blues
• business
• mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Toots Thielemans, Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Stan Goetz, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Norah Jones, Steely Dan, Willie Neslon; Debussy, Ravel, Faure.

Movies: More than sixty years ago, a movie, Viva Zapata, helped me to become a pacifist. The Fabulous Baker Boys is an accurate depiction of the culture of jazz performance, except that they omitted some of the drug addiction in the original script.

Books: Calvin and Hobbes, Doonesbury, Please Understand Me II, The Trial of Socrates by Plato, Catcher in the Rye. Break a Leg's trail journal at http://trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=85724
together with later entries.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I rode out of New Orleans on a bike the day before Hurricane Katrina arrived.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Math, jazz piano, stand-up bass, English, inspiration of children.

Learn: Anything you understand deeply.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Private jazz performance. Tour of my son's manufacturing and shipping company. Hiking at Griffith Park, the largest municipal park in the United States.

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, France, Germany, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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