I should mention that while my location is stated as Angelus Oaks...this is only the nearest town to the school I work at during the week. During the weekend, I am from the Colorado River, Joshua Tree, Yosemite, Ocean Beach, Deep Creek Hot Springs, SLO, Big Sur, the Mojave, LA, San Fran, SD, and everywhere in between.

I'm a human, so I am original and flawed. I recognize that I see the world through eyes that are only my own, therefore I try not to judge others or measure myself against those around me. I laugh a great deal, and the majority of my free time is spent watching the wonders of nature. I travel a great deal, and spent the last year and a half in Costa Rica, followed by 8 months of living out of my car teaching Natural Science in California, followed by 3 months on an organic produce farm on the Oregon Coast. The last two months have been spent in Michigan, working on a wildflower farm and enjoying time with family and friends. Now back in California!

My passion is my writing, through which I try to inspire people to truly embrace themselves and seek a life that is their own. I am currently about 1/3 of the way through my first novel, and I am also working on a collection of essays themed on the ethical dillemmas my generation faces.
I just moved back to California and am looking for someone to share my thoughts, ideas, goofiness, seriousness, and adventures with.

Back in Southern California on September 16! Excited for a new year of teaching, writing, adventuring, and simply enjoying the crazy west coast!!

I take on many writing projects, and am currently working to get a deal for another book idea I have that incorporates photography. Also trying to start a non-profit for disadvantaged youth to visit National Parks....We'll see.

Creating projects for myself out of thin air. Cooking. Watching movies. Laughing when telling a joke. Looking like a fool when I dance. Wandering through the woods. Finding a way to watch sunset no matter what the circumstances are. Being a dependable friend: I really try to be there for the people I love, in whatever way I can.

I'd say I'm PRETTY good at:

writing, nature photography, planning trips and executing them in extremley enjoyable fashion, making others laugh.

That would most certainly be relative to the noticer.

Books: currently reading Walden. not reading any novels right now because I want to feel that my writing style is not borrowed. I enjoy books that compel me to dig deep within myself for answers, or to continue researching a topic to better understand it. The best books, however, are the ones that shake my whole perspective and understanding of the world. FAV BOOKS: Into the Wild, Breaking Open The Head, State of Fear, The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird, anything Stephen King.

Current Music: Fleet Foxes, Neil Young, Daisy May, New Amsterdams, The Starting Line, My Morning Jacket, The String Cheese Incident, Steppin In It, As Tall As Lions, The Cave Singers, and so on.

Trees.
Dreams.
Hats.
Lake Michigan.
Adventures.
Books.

The predicament of my generation. The book I'm writing. The universe. What I should be doing with my time. Women. What's beyond the limitations of human perception, aka what reality might actually contain. Friends/family, and the time I can spend with them. Finding a balance between being involved in society without being polluted by it.

on an adventure of some sorts. Camping, hiking, on a road trip up to San Luis Obispo or Yosemite or Big Sur or Ocean Beach...who knows!!

I was just watching Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. It was the end of the movie, and Frodo realizes that he deeply resents the ring coming to him. He wishes that none of this would have happened to him. He is caught in a moment of utter loss of hope in life. And then Gandolf's voice comes in, telling him "so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. The only thing we can decide, is what to do with the time that has been given to us."

And I teared up. I see our world at a changing point in history that is bringing about the most difficult of times, the worst of which remain to be seen. And many of us, like Frodo, resent to be alive at such times, and go so far as to live in denial of the purpose that has been placed upon this generation of lives. It is sad, indeed, that most of us will not make great use of the time that has been given to us.

You're in Southern California and don't have an ego the size of Rhode Island.

You have an earnest desire to do something original in life. You often fined yourself overwhelmed with the wonderment and awe of life and the universe at large. You have a healthy distaste for drama. You don't depend on a person to complete you, only to enrich your life and share the experience with.

You should also message me if you are, in general, ready and willing for adventure.