tadhargrave

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

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My life has been a crazy mix of stuff.

I grew up in Edmonton going to an alternative hippy school called Waldorf. In kindergarten we would sit carting wool, then spinning it and then knitting our own recorder cases. I was, possibly, the only child at my school who never really learned how to play.

We learned Greek, Roman and Norse myths in elementary school, having Homer's Osyssey told to us by the teacher from the front of the room. We would bake our own bread in class, play capture the flag in Mill Creek ravine and somehow consistently persuade our french teacher to let us play soccer during french class ("Okay! But you guys need to speak in french while we play!").

My best memories are the Summer Solstice bonfires at Hawrelack Park where are the families and children would get together for a big end of the year picnic and celebrate. Then, when it was dark, we would gather around the fire for stories. So many happy memories from those times. The school, to my immense heartbreak, collapsed when I was in grade 6 due to politics I have never fully understood.

I went to public school in junior high and then to Victoria School for the Performing Arts (then Vic Comp). It was a wonderful, open and creative environment and I was blessed with incredible teachers across the board.

To the utter dismay of many of my teachers, I never went to university after high school.

Since then . . .

- I've done close up magic (card tricks etc) since i was 12,

- street performing magic (which i have discovered is unspeakably harder than it looks),

- improv comedy more or less weekly since I was 16,

- led over 80 day long workshops for student councils and peer support teams from around Alberta over a span of about 7 years. They were a lot of fun and very well received and seemed to really have an impact on some of the youth who came. I miss it.

- traveled a lot (Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, Hawaii, most of the USA and a lot of Canada)

- Spent a year in Nova Scotia learning Scottish Gaelic and then 5 months on the Isle of Skye a the Gaelic College there.