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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
poetry, improvised music, blues, community activism
ABOUT ME
I am recently retired from working as a policy analyst for the Nova Scotia government, but my long time vocation are poetry and music. My community work has focused on coastal, fisheries and social
innovation/enterprise. I am also doing volunteer work with the international small-scalll fisheries movement. I am also a blues singer songwriter.
PHILOSOPHY
social justice, free improvisation, communitarianism, Taoism, spontaneous creativity
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I am planning to put in some major low budget road time, combining music gigs, writing and my international fisheries work. I have just returned from a trip to NYC, Lisbon, Morocco and London that combined all these thing, and I am ready for more.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I am new to it.
Interests
I have been billeted many times as part of music tours
- writing
- poetry
- volunteer work
- music
- guitar
- blues
- volunteering
- tours
Music, Movies, and Books
Fave movie: Ran
Fave record: Best of Muddy Waters
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Walked up Emei Shan, the sacred mountain the Szechuan
Teach, Learn, Share
Teach:
blues guitar, music improvisation, facilitation/organization skills, writing poetry
Learn:
conversational Mandarin and French, music, poetry,
Countries I’ve Visited
China, France, Greece, India, Italy, Morocco, Mozambique, Pakistan, Portugal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
Canada, France