CURRENT MISSION

learn three things: a skilled trade, make one dinner dish perfectly, and speak portuguese

ABOUT ME

My name is Wagner Israel Cilio III and I like human beings a lot, a lot, a lot. If you are one of these human beings please come sleep on my couch and tell me your stories.

PHILOSOPHY

"Don't have an orgasm, be an orgasm!" - Devin Ruth Adams RIP

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I participate more as a surfer than anything else but I am very willing to host when I have a place, like now.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Potluck Tour of Homes Summer 2007:
John Miller in Austin, TX
Ryan & Lindsey Gloetzner in Albuquerque, NM
Brian Mayhall in Santa Fe, NM
Chrissy Giles in Denver, CO
Todd Muchow in Boulder, CO
Owen in Seattle, WA
Bret in Portland, OR
Aaron in Eugene, OR
Brooke in Kansas City, MO

Interests

Human beings and they way they laugh and talk and scream and yell and how they get jealous and joyful and the way they cry and pray and the way they smile and just the way they are.

• animals
• potluck
• boating
• bouldering

Music, Movies, and Books

William Saroyan [Tracy's Tiger, Dear Baby]
Wendell Berry - Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays, Northrop Frye - The Great Code, Shane Jones - Light Boxes, Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature, Henry David Thoreau - Walden, Caetano Veloso: self-titled (1968), Tropical Truth

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I drove from Santa Fe to Denver on scenic Highway 285. Watched a guy fix his boat on a canal in Amsterdam. Drove through the desert and thought about how little I really was. Taught English for a year in Czech Republic. Blushed at a laughing baby in Frankfurt. Slept in a Hungarian park in March. Explored an abandoned apartment building in Prague. Played house shows around the country all summer. Screamed and threw rocks at the Grand Tetons. Saw Animal Collective in a basement in Omaha. Drove through a double-arc rainbow. Got hugged by a complete stranger and loved everything.

Teach, Learn, Share

"In the time of your life, live — so that in good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart. Be the inferior of no man, nor of any man be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live — so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

-William Saroyan

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, United States

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