I try to keep things joyous and live my life as creatively as I can.

I want to do/see/visit/listen to/meet/dance with or to/learn about everything/everyone at once. "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time..."

I speak French, Spanish and some Portuguese, some Kiswahili and Ukrainian.

I like meeting people, talking with people in shops, subways, greeting store clerks, people in the street.

Left-handed/right-brained.

I am studying clowning. I take it very seriously.

I like ambiguity and discussion! I'm a bit of a contrarian in conversation.

I like playing music, with or without other people. I love to sing.

If you know the enneagram theory of personality, which I am currently reading a lot about-- I'm a 2 or a 4. Not that that stuff is me... they're just the stories I work with naturally.

I love roadtrips and have a serious curiosity for new places and cities especially.

My life is rich with a great diversity of wonderful friends around the world. I am coming to terms now with the fact that I'll probably always be a nomad, and that actually I love that version of community.

I'm into open relationships and polyamory.

“Why don't we get together and give that big grey bubble a kick?” -graffiti, seen by Eduardo Galeano, then quoted in The Book of Embraces

Writing and editing, dancing, coaching people through stuff, baking, accents, kissing.

my butt's great. Just sayin'. I usually wear a pair of bike shorts on my first dates.

Now: The Dirty Projectors, Sam Mangwana, Bahamas, Bad Brains, Propagandhi, Gillian Welch, Glenn Gould, Talking Heads, Lil' Wayne, Neil Young, the Clash, Billy Bragg n Wilco, Woody Guthrie, Sam Cooke, Arcade Fire, Paul Simon, Operation Ivy, Bruce Springsteen.

Movies: Synecdoche, New York; Broken Flowers; Stop Making Sense; The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Books:

Recently--
The Enneagram, Opening Up: A guide to creating and sustaining open relationships, Expect Resistance, Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier, Anarchism and Anarchists by George Woodcock, Sex At Dawn: how we mate, why we stray and what it means to modern relationships; Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne; The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day; poems by Irving Layton.
Next: Infinite Jest, Learning From Nairobi Mobility.

Authors: Roald Dahl, Graham Greene, Eduardo Galeano, Dorothy Day, Jean Vanier.

Poetry: Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, David Solway, Irving Layton.

Catholic Worker Newspaper, Harper's Magazine. Anything pinko. Social-Role Valorization theory, anything about disability.

resourcefulness, bicycles, plane tickets, rhythm, friends, a journal.

Anarchism, pacifism, community, autonomy, what life was like before the industrial revolution, feminism, the relationship between society and mental illness/disability.
How to engage in meaningful dialogue on these topics with people who don't ever really think about them.
How to live most honestly and fearlessly.
What to eat for supper.
Music.
Syncronicity.

There is no typical friday night. I like parties. I like reading, I like traveling and camping, cottages, day trips, documentaries, dancing, practicing languages, going on dates, cooking, slacklining, running.

http://music.cbc.ca/artists/The-Youjsh