I am...

I'm unabashedly an idealist with overly lofty goals but with a true undercurrent of purpose. I value the importance of early mornings when the light filters in through my living room window and hits my favorite overstuffed chair in the corner. I appreciate creative vision when I see it, and I admire those who push the status quo. I believe we all should take on an attitude of global citizenship, and break free from ethnocentricity and lukewarm, halfhearted opinions. I value the art of asking questions and understanding fully. I challenge myself to be a generalist in many things: politics, foreign affairs, health and wellness, extreme travel, anthropology, marketing, and sociology so that I can better understand how to give back to the world. I indulge in stacks of coffee table books. Currently I have set out: a passion for tea, a year of adventures, alfons mucha's prints, ansel adams, french dreams, a year in the south of france, and prague: city of light. I'm a subscriber of Vanity Fair, unbeknownst to my staunch Republican parents. Lately, I'm intrigued by historical accounts of the Middle East and Latin American poetry. I'm currently reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist. Next on my nightstand is Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I'm most likely to...spend a rainy day creating an art journal and painting, be the friend that embarrasses you when I ask for the last free copy of the NY Times before Starbucks closes, make a bulleted and checkbox to-do list for each day of the week, be the friend that sends you Mozel Tov e-cards on your "Bar Mitzvah", never have enough flip flops, daydream over a REI catalog, be the friend that calls you up to plan another extreme trip to some obscure part of the world, study two languages at the same time, almost always charm my way into an airplane or ultralight, spend a free afternoon in an art museum with a caramel mocha in hand, volunteer every possible second of my free time, and blog about my amorous relationship with darjeeling tea