l'autrefois maison cède pas à l'errance, plus de lieu, apprendre à nouveau à la vie sur le fil chez les autres

CURRENT MISSION

vivre!

ABOUT ME

I am euh... how to explain oneself? Small, indecisive, somewhat shy, absentminded, curious, in love with life, trees, leaves and sea-breezes, pebbles, corner-of-the-eye-smiles, early mornings and cups of coffee...
born in the north of northern ireland then off with the people. Now, in marseille, trying to live this city in all her faces, to create spaces where new winds can blow and there can be a together
though
the days pass with their time, the itch in my feet, between my toes, grows to the small of my back, shoulderblades, elbows, palms of my hands, mind : go! now! but where? here even in the shadows, here already is far

PHILOSOPHY

pas après pas
footsteps, take the slow paths, the long the winding paths, the ones with the wind, take them when they offer themselves to me, where they lead
glimpse, capture, try to be just one instant the immensity of earth
moving

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I spent more or less the last ten years glued to my city, Marseilles, working and living with people who had travelled to europe to find another life. We created a collective in 2015 to try and create collective space to resist the racism of french society, and to make acces to legal rights, the language, housing and work opportunities more accessible. It was a strong though terrible time of my life. These years i gained my money working in the mountains as a shepherd, hearding one thousand five hundred sheep through the french alps with a close friend.

A couple of years ago my mind split as i felt we had not the strength to fight against the depths of the inequalities, and i left Marseilles to train as a house carpenter, willing that i should find a way through building with other people to create incomes and try to question from another angle the exclusion of the illegalised immigrants.

Well i guess i somehow got lost along this road and after three years travelling france and working on different projects i started to question my own place as an irish immigrant in france completely cut off from my home country, family and history, and decided to travel back to see what this all comes from.

I stayed a few places through the couchsurfing on travels in my early twenties, had people stay with us when we started to live steady again, and then there were just too many people needing houses in the city to take people from couchsurfing as well, our couch was allways occupied.

a desire to fall of the inter-net-work, to meet people by chance or on the road , becoming friends, seeing again and again, a friend met on couchsurfing then lived with us for a year...

Interests

batir ensemble

créer des espaces où nous pouvons nous poser, nous reposer, nous lancer à nouveau plus puissantes vers la vie, dans la vie,

la paysannerie, l'organisation des travailleurs, la montagne, les espaces moins régis par le dictat humain, la rencontre de celles et ceux qui viennent d'ailleurs et se placent ici

Music, Movies, and Books

old french cinema, documentaries, the films of bahman ghobadi

i love music by no way of remembering, the sudden of the street artists, of the wind in the gates, of the concerts in the corners of the gift of a friend cello between my thoughts dancing me through the streets of my city

in writers i love arundhati roy, john berger, dermot bolger, the poetry of mahmoud darwish, nazim hikmet, yannis ritsos and marina skalova

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

spent three mounths on the edge of a world that once believed itself ending
climbing a mountain in the jura thinking it was the alps through a spring snow storm, eating figs
watching the seals
lost myself on a mountain and thought i would freeze then at nightfall found a cabin with old men eating cheese
swimming at m'chouneche between the datepalms and red rocks of the algerian desert
waking up each morning by my window in marseille, and heading down to the streets eager for a new adventure

Teach, Learn, Share

the little things of a little life, passing
the joy of being, making rose-hip jam stone walls and mud pies, spinning wool - if we find a wheel, three words of arabic, the desire to change
house building and woodworking in the french peasent tradition, sheep hearding and healing

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Greece, Ireland, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Ireland