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i have just recently moved back to portland, i spent the last year experimenting with living in the forest, eating squirrels, fish, insects, wild flowers, and berries. now that i am back in the city i will be going back to college.

i am a portland native. i have a lot of friends but am excited to meet new, interesting people. especially people who think outside the box and are not completely absorbed by western culture (i.e. materialistic, superficial, greedy, overly competitive, fearful, wasteful, unhealthy, etc.). if i sound interesting to you lets find something fun to do.

here is some random info that comes to mind:

+ i'm healthy (mostly eat macrobiotically and vegan)
+ i like sustainable things
+ i like to go on adventures and take risks

(this is what it means to be an adventurer in our day and age: to give up creature comforts of the mind, to realize possibilities of the imagination. because everything around you says no you cannot do this, you cannot live without that, nothing is useful unless it's in service to money, to gain, to stability.

the adventurer gives in to tides of chaos, trusts the world to support her -- and in doing so turns her back on the fear and obedience she has been taught. she rejects the indoctrination of impossibility.

my adventure is a struggle for freedom.)

+ i have a background in art but do not devote too much time to it
+ i like wild things
+ i sometimes hunt and gather wild foods
+ i like to cook
+ i try to live simply
+ i don't like wearing socks
+ i periodically give away everything i own
+ i read lots of books, like to write, and enjoy thoughtful conversation
+ i like walking, running, and hiking
+ i do not work; i enjoy being free
+ i love rivers
+ i am a natural investigator
+ i enjoy sustainable fashion
+ i like open minded people
+ i like red wine and local microbrews
+ i enjoy being left to my own thoughts from time to time
+ i have a very strong will
+ i watch almost no television (OPB occasionally)
+ i like learning and developing primitive skills
+ i have an animist world view
+ politically i am probably closest to anarcho-primitivism
+ i do not drive. i walk or take the bus
+ i live in SE portland off of hawthorne
+ i like stumptown coffee black. i also like tea
+ i enjoy practicing the art of "doing nothing"

my top ten most important things in life are (subject to change):

1. meaningful relationships (human and non-human)
2. health
3. freedom
4. happiness
5. self sufficiency
6. love
7. activism
8. growth
9. family
10. sustainability

SOME QUOTES I LIKE

"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences." -Lewis Mumford

"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." -Gandhi

"Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing." -Adolph Monod

"We're in a giant car heading toward a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit." -David Suzuki

"The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world." -Susan Sontag

"What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak." -George Santayana

"It's universally wrong to steal from your neighbor, but once you get beyond this one-to-one level and put the individual against the multinational conglomerate, the federal bureaucracy,...or the utility company, it becomes strictly a value judgment to decide who exactly is stealing from whom. One person's crime is another person's profit." -Abbie Hoffman

"But the important thing is not the finding. It is the seeking. It is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it, because your heart would not have been purified by the long quest." -Umberto Eco

"What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us. We seem to succumb so easily to the prevailing human tendency to pave such places over, build subdivisions upon them, and name them the Willows, or Peregrine's Roost, or Elk Meadows, after whatever it was that got killed there. Apparently, it's hard for us humans to doubt, even for a minute, that this program of plunking down our edifices at regular intervals over the entire landmass of planet Earth is overall a good idea." -Barbara Kingsolver

"I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man." -Thoreau

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation....Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation." -Jean Arp

"Once one of the monks with Saint Francis asked if he might own just one book. Francis replied, "No, if you have a book, pretty soon you will need a bookshelf for your book. Then you will need a house for your bookshelf. After that you will need a lock on your door to protect your book from thieves breaking in and stealing it." -Loretta Ross-Gotta

"That is mine which none can steal from me." -Thoreau

"Beneath the veneer of civilization...lies not the barbarian and the animal, but the human in us who knows what is right and necessary for becoming fully human: birth in gentle surroundings, a rich nonhuman environment, juvenile tasks with simple tools, ...play at being animals, ...clan membership and small-group life, and the profound claims and liberation ritual initiation and subsequent stages of adult mentorship. There is a secret person undamaged in each of us, aware of the validity of these conditions, sensitive to their right moments in our lives." -Paul Shepard

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail." -Thoreau

"God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water; the next, your son bouncing on your knees, or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk." -Nikos Kazantzakis

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

trying to spend my time living instead of working.

"If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage." -Thoreau

"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price." -Khalil Gibran

"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it is highly unprofitable to most people." -E.B. White

"Where the whole man is involved, there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor." -Marshall McLuhan

"Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation -- that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno -- I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!" -Luis Bunuel

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VINCENT: So if you're quitting the life, what'll you do?

JULES: That's what I've been sitting here contemplating. First, I'm gonna deliver this case to Marsellus. Then, basically, I'm gonna walk the earth.

VINCENT: What do you mean, walk the earth?

JULES: You know, like Caine in "KUNG FU." Just walk from town to town, meet people, get in adventures.

VINCENT: How long do you intend to walk the earth?

JULES: Until God puts me where he want me to be.

VINCENT: What if he never does?

JULES: If it takes forever, I'll wait forever.

VINCENT: So you decided to be a bum?

JULES: I'll just be Jules, Vincent -- no more, no less.

VINCENT: No Jules, you're gonna be like those pieces of shit out there who beg for change. They walk around like a bunch of fuckin' zombies, they sleep in garbage bins, they eat what I throw away, and dogs piss on 'em. They got a word for 'em, they're called bums. And without a job, residence, or legal tender, that's what you're gonna be -- a fuckin' bum!

JULES: Look my friend, this is just where me and you differ --

I'm really good at Propose an edit

destroying people at ping pong!

...and cooking stir fry.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

BOOKS

authors: John Zerzan, Derrick Jensen, Kerouac, Thoreau, George Ohsawa, Nietzsche, Chomsky, Tom Brown Jr., Neil Stephenson

subjects: philosophy, religion, anthropology, ethnobotany, health, politics, classic literature, crimethinc, history, cynicism, field guides

magazines: The Sun (especially the Readers Write In section), AdBusters

MOVIES

Lost In Translation, Donnie Darko, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, Royal Tenembaums, I Heart Huckabees, Thin Red Line, Dead Poets Society, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Igby Goes Down, The Dreamers, A Scanner Darkly, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Steal This Movie, Lost and Delirious, V for Vendetta, Amelie, L'Auberge Espagnole, Russian Dolls, Vicki Christina Barcelona, The Corporation, Things To Do In Denver When Your Dead, Kingdom of Heaven, Pride And Prejudice, Into The Wild, The Science of Sleep, Amores perros, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Requiem For A Dream, Reservoir Dogs, The Big Lebowski, Children of Men, Mystic River, Garden State, Waiting For Guffman, Best of Show

MUSIC

i like all music but especially like the music produced by rushing water (e.g. a river), frogs, crickets, and rain drops.

artists: talib kweli, mos def, brooklyn academy, immortal technique, jaymay, jewel, eddie vedder, jack johnson, james blunt, thirstin howl, matt fingaz, punch and words, josh ritter, yanni, enya, bob marley, dave matthews, ingrid michaelson, dire straits, bob dylan, eric clapton, counting crows, ten years after, joe walsh, beatles, jimmy buffet, aerosmith, billy joel, elton john, steve miller, tom petty, steely dan, bruce springsteen, lynrd skynrd, the who, moody blues, chris isaak, the doors, led zeppelin, rolling stones, johnny cash, creedence clearwater revival, otis redding, buffalo springfield, willie nelson,... whatever sounds good! (i like all music depending on my mood)

FOOD

“The use of beneficial food is the only cause of growth of a person, while the use of food that is injurious is the cause of disease. It is in consequence of this deterioration that there took place a corresponding deterioration in the sap, purity, taste, potency, post-digestive effect and quality of seeds and plants. In this manner, righteousness dwindles in each succeeding age by one quarter…until eventually the world comes to dissolution [and is reborn].”

- Charaka Samhita, Indian medical encyclopedia, first century A.D.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

fire, water, food, shelter, air, friends (human and non-human)

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

living in the northwest before lewis and clark, traveling and going on wild adventures, hopping freight trains, hitch hiking, having a family, art, relationships, how to create change, the web of life, reptilians, communication without language, human nature

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"And how is it possible that a man who has nothing, who is naked, houseless, without a hearth, squalid, without a slave, without a city, can pass a life that flows easily? See, God has sent you a man to show you that it is possible. Look at me, who am without a city, without a house, without possessions, without a slave; I sleep on the ground; I have no wife, no children, no praetorium, but only the earth and heavens, and one poor cloak. And what do I want? Am I not without sorrow? Am I not without fear? Am I not free? When did any of you see me failing in the object of my desire? or ever falling into that which I would avoid? did I ever blame God or man? did I ever accuse any man? did any of you ever see me with sorrowful countenance? And how do I meet with those whom are you afraid of and admire? Do not I treat them like slaves? Who, when he sees me, does not think that he sees his king and master?" (Epictetus, Discourses)

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

out with friends

You should message me if Propose an edit

you want to get to know me

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