44 Anna Mernieks (Beams, Toronto)

Bridging the Social Distance · May 27, 2020 · 59m

For this episode I interview Anna Mērnieks-Duffield, a musician and Arborist living in Toronto ON. We talk about Anna's own musical project Beams, and the bands she plays in (Ace of Wands and The Fern Tips) and how her identities as a musician, wife, and arborist fit into a quarantine. It's all a balance - she's still working full time at her day job during the quarantine, but she's working on other stuff too - she's working on herself, making more room for trust and healthy relationships, appreciating having a less chaotic schedule, and working on an internet television show with Ace of…