Essayist. Weaver. Fiddle-player.

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

My name is Megan Adam. I’m a professional communicator and president of my union local by day. When I’m not working for pay, I am active in community, craft, music, and creating a home with my partner Brian on Gabriola Island (Snuneymuxw territory) in British Columbia. 

Whatever I do, I write about.

Subjects covered on the blog include weaving, violin-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.e.adam@gmail.com. I also have a monthly newsletter called Comfort for the Apocalypse which you can subscribe to for free.

Working from home during a power outage. Yeti battery backup to keep everything charged up, cel phone hot spot (we have weak signal, but some), battery operated lantern. Wood stove for heat in the background. Today’s outage was planned for repair work, so I was organized for it - but every time we lose power I refine my set-up just a little bit more.
Some incredibly pleasing after work weaving; shots taken with a proper camera to get the colour and detail.
Hard to capture the beauty of this forest green bamboo, but I do love a good hemstitch at the start of a project. #weaversofinstagram #weavingloom #weaverfever #handweaving
More finished items that I am just getting around to posting now. These plaited twill tea towels are the last of a batch that I put on the loom late last spring. I finally wove them off at the start of November (in time for some housewarming presents).
Finished these during the power outage this week. I suspect that another pair of socks is coming out of the ongoing communications line breakdown since I can't actually browse or surf my phone at the moment. Good luck, bad luck, who knows?
When the days get short, I forget about taking pictures of my work, so I have some to catch up on from the last week.
Went to Port Alberni today to meet up with some union folks and got a chance to look at fish and lots of fish eggs. This is a tray of one-day coho salmon.
I am going to be fifty in two and a half months.
I was supposed to be on a residential meditation retreat this past week but I was still too sick to go. Instead I made an at-home retreat with meditation practice in my tiny zendo, chanting service, soji (work practice), art practice, and lots of rest practice. I kept silence most of the time (I was here by myself) and stayed off social media. So grateful that my Zen community offered online participation so I could feel that I was sitting with others.
Preparing a warp: winding on 238 threads, tying the cross, a tied warp on the board and the finished warp chain. This is a small warp at 238 threads and 6.5 yards. From start to finish it takes me about 2 hours to complete this stage of the weaving process.
All this colour in the weaving stash (and this is just some of the cottons) and yet I'm winding an all-white warp today. At least these pretties are here to brighten up these grey mornings. #weaversofinstagram #weaverfever #handweaving #textilestudio
My small #glimakrajulia loom is empty for the first time in six months as I've used some of my sick time this week to slowly weave the tea towel warp off. Once I recover some energy I will start warping this loom again and then turn to fixing the warp on my larger loom.

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