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Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws
"...This glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws"
Created on 2005-12-16 14:45:24 (#9041943), last updated 2009-11-08
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bdouville@sympatico.ca BioCurrently, I'm in the third year of my PhD (History) at York University in Toronto. I'm researching the relationship between counter-culture and Christianity in urban Canada, 1965-1975. This means I'm looking at hippies, New Left student radicals, Jesus People, and alarmed churchfolk.
Before I returned to grad school, I taught high school History and English for four years in Thornhill. (I'm from northern Ontario originally.)
I play piano and sing. I did my undergraduate degree in Music at University of Western Ontario, and also attended Teacher's College there. About 5 years later, I did my MA at Queen's University (Kingston). The full-time teaching gig came after that.
I'm have an academic interest in religion and spirituality. But as a recovering ex-evangelical, and an agnostic, the interest is also personal. I try to abide by Jesus' teachings about love and forgiveness. And I still do church music in an evangelical Anglican church. My family and many of my friends are evangelicals, and I love them dearly. But I also think it's important to have a sense of humour about religion, life, the universe and everthing.
Also, I'm queer, left-handed, and an ex-vegan. It is still unclear to me whether or not these things are related.
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Before I returned to grad school, I taught high school History and English for four years in Thornhill. (I'm from northern Ontario originally.)
I play piano and sing. I did my undergraduate degree in Music at University of Western Ontario, and also attended Teacher's College there. About 5 years later, I did my MA at Queen's University (Kingston). The full-time teaching gig came after that.
I'm have an academic interest in religion and spirituality. But as a recovering ex-evangelical, and an agnostic, the interest is also personal. I try to abide by Jesus' teachings about love and forgiveness. And I still do church music in an evangelical Anglican church. My family and many of my friends are evangelicals, and I love them dearly. But I also think it's important to have a sense of humour about religion, life, the universe and everthing.
Also, I'm queer, left-handed, and an ex-vegan. It is still unclear to me whether or not these things are related.
***********************************************************************************
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
"There is another theory which states that this has already happened." (Douglas Adams)
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"life is not about what we do when godot gets here
"it's what we do while we're waiting..." (
foucaultonacid)
"ME PLAYING THE PIANO" IS LOVE!!!
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agnosticism, aids in africa, allen ginsberg, american history, american politics, atheism, baking, baroque, bible, bisexuality, bruce cockburn, canadian history, canadian literature, canadian politics, cathedrals, cbc radio, cbc radio two, choral music, church architecture, coming of age movies, counterculture, dinner piano, douglas adams, early music, eighties music, environmentalism, ex-fundamentalist, ex-vegetarian, family guy, folk rock, gandhi, gastroparesis, genius, gifted teens, glenn gould, graduate studies, gustav mahler, henry david thoreau, hippies, human rights, jesus, jesus movement, jesus people, johann sebastian bach, joni mitchell, livejournal, margaret atwood, monty python, mordecai richler, moxy fruvous, ndp, neo-hippies, non-dairy, northern ontario, oral history, organic food, osteopenia, osteoporosis, piano, prog rock, queer, robertson davies, seeker, shakespeare, simple living, sixties, social activism, social democracy, social justice, socialism, stan rogers, teaching, timothy findley, wallace and gromit, weight gain, york university, youtube
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Schools:
William Merrifield VC Public School - Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada (1974 - 1978)St. Joseph's Catholic School - Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada (1978 - 1979)
Tarentorus Public School - Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada (1979 - 1982)
Bawating Collegiate and Vocational School - Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada (1982 - 1987)
University of Western Ontario - London, ON, Canada (1987 - 1993)
Algoma University College - Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada (1995 - 1997)
Queen's University - Kingston, ON, Canada (1997 - 1998)
York University - Toronto, ON, Canada (2004 - 2006)
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