Essayist. Weaver. Fiddle-player.

I write about how we might live our best lives during impossible times. 

My name is Megan Adam. I am a writer, musician, and textile worker living on Gabriola Island. These are not professional titles for me so much as creative practices — ways I navigate my life and relate to the world around me. I am also a community convenor, a believer in bringing people together in shared work as an antidote to the isolation of our current times. If I were to sum up my creative, community, and activist interests in a single line, it would be this: discovering how we create human-scale lives in a human-sized world.

My creative “CV” includes my newsletter Comfort for the Apocalypse, two long-standing musical projects (The Flying Folk Army and Lone Crow Jubilee), fiddle support on numerous other recordings, and my role in launching the Gabriola Island Fibreshed Pod initiative. My fibre practice focuses on functional textiles, and I have experience in weaving, knitting, and sewing. More recently, I’ve been exploring book-making and mixed-media work.

Whatever I do, I write about.

Subjects covered on the blog include weaving, fiddle-playing, sewing, knitting, power-lifting, books, canning and cooking, community politics, and Zen Buddhism. Over the years I have also written about mental health, homesteading and gardening, environmental politics, philosophy, urban living, and cycling.

I welcome comments and connections via the blog interface, or email. I can be reached at megan@birdsongisland.ca. I also have a newsletter called Comfort for the Apocalypse which you can subscribe to for free.