CURRENT MISSION

Making new friends :)

ABOUT ME

Been around a while. Feels like a lifetime! Studied some, worked some, travelled some. Been busy & active, been quiet & still. But seldom have I been at peace. I have yet to find a place to drop my anchor. Many times I have tried, but some storm always blows up & hurls me back out to sea

I lived in cities & villages & forests & caves. In the desert, on the plain, by the mountains & the sea. Been roasted & parched by the sun, swamped by the rain & mud, frozen by the ice & snow. Climbed the highest peaks to see an incredible view, disappeared from sight in the crowd. Lost myself in the traffic, found myself alone by the river. Feasted on the fruits of the ocean, been feasted upon by the bugs in the jungle. Written stories, read tomes, taken pictures, made music, shared adventures, lived, loved, lost, found

Nothing remains as it was nor quite works out how we planned. The path is never straight nor without unknown hurdles. Everything changes, is in a constant state of flux. We must be prepared to adapt & change too if we are to complete the journey

It's been interesting. And exciting. And stimulating. And fun. But hard at times. And lonely. And tiring. But it's been real :)

PHILOSOPHY

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter & the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning & is refreshed

- Be a lamp unto yourself & seek your own liberation with diligence
- Every problem contains the seed of its own solution
- Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it
- Open yourself to opportunity & it will find you
- You will never achieve what you never begin
- Shit happens: deal with it

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have a home at the centre of Ankara.

Interests

People, ideas, wisdom, love, beauty, sustainability, equity, learning, peace, NGOs, diversity, languages, anthropology, social enterprise, knitting, capoeira, music, coffee and turkish delight, cooking and creating things, long evenings talking, exploring beautiful places, philosophy and social theories, the desert, forests, beautiful textiles and crafts, markets.

• beauty
• capoeira
• cooking
• coffee
• crafts
• knitting
• music
• anthropology
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

a few watchable movies…

Amelie, Apocalypse Now, Babel, Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, Brazil, Breathless, Chinatown, Chocolat, Citizen Kane, City of God, Clockwork Orange, Coffee and Cigarettes, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Dead Poets, Delicatessen, Duck Soup, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, Fear and Loathing, Fight Club, Frida, Gattaca, Get Carter, The Godfather, House of Flying Daggers, Inception, It’s a Wonderful Life, Jacob’s Ladder, Kill Bill, Kes, The King's Speech, The Man with a Movie Camera, The Matrix, Memento, Naked Lunch, Network, A Night at the Opera, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pan's Labyrinth, The Pianist, Pulp Fiction, Rebel Without a Cause, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Schindler's List, Seven Samurai, Shallow Grave, Sideways, The Silence of the Lambs, Sin City, The Sixth Sense, Some Like It Hot, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, Taxi Driver, The Third Man, Three Colours, Vertigo, Waltz with Bashir, Wings of Desire, Withnail and I

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching the universe expand in the clear desert sky, with a full moon & a small fire for company. Nothing can prepare you for the sheer enormity & astounding beauty of it all

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey