The CliffsNotes version:
I grew up in San Diego,
studied Ethnobotany in Oahu,
lived for a semester in Nepal,
got my Master's in City Planning,
and recently moved to Santa Monica to work for a non-profit.

Outside of work, I enjoy freediving, snowboarding, birdwatching, brewing beer, playing beach volleyball, stargazing, gardening, and collecting new hobbies.

I'm also learning to play the banjo... my neighbors love me.

identifying edible plants, cooking Tunisian briks, and playing Pictionary.

Books: Richard Adams, Ray Bradbury, Anton Chekhov, Loren Eiseley, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse, Jens Peter Jacobsen, George R.R. Martin, Fernando Pessoa, Rumi, Kurt Vonnegut

Comics: François Schuiten, Moebius, Preacher, Saga, Scalped

Movies: Arizona Dream, A Boy and His Dog, Before Sunrise, The Bothersome Man, Cool Hand Luke, Delicatessen, Mind Game, My Dinner with Andre, The Princess Bride, The Seventh Seal, Spirited Away, Stand by Me, Wicker Man, Wings of Desire, Zardoz

TV: Archer, Arrested Development, The Daily Show, Deadwood, Game of Thrones, Home Movies, Peep Show, South Park, Spaced, Twin Peaks, The Wire

Music: Andrew Bird, Archers of Loaf, Bill Callahan, Patsy Cline, Modest Mouse, Moondog, Moonface, and other lunar bands...

Food: Anything, just make it hot!

In no particular order...
1. French pressed coffee with breakfast and tea for the rest of the day
2. Good conversations
3. Travel
4. Trader Joe's
5. The ocean
6. Cities
... some of those are plural - does that make more than six?

writing a sequel to the Bible.

laughing with friends over dinner, at an event for work, seeing a show, night hiking, or at home with a cup of tea reading a book on the couch.

I've been a member of the California Rare Fruit Growers since I was 12.

you want to explore a new trail,
or
you'd like to split a bottle of cheap red wine and watch Northern Exposure reruns,
or
you feel like we'd connect.