BIO
"aesthetic creative interpersonal embodiment and leadership..."
Michael Sunshine
Appalachian Season
Asheville
ecology, psychology,
politics, story, and art
R E C E N T A C T I V I T Y
• community-house member
• producer, director, performer, musical pageantry
• entrepreneur, landscaping business
• writer, musician, artist
• journeyer, mycelium school
N A T U R A L G I F T S
• emotional and intuitive sensitivity
• text, language, lyricism, song, and communication
• theatricality, aesthetics, ceremony, charisma
• group leadership
• inner-personal and interpersonal practice and presence
A C H I E V E M E N T S
• created this website
• direct, perform, musician in the faerie kin
• successful personal landscaping business
• edible landscaping installation, Clemson University
• community garden visioning, co-design, and implementation, Carrboro, NC
• co-parenting, stepdaughter
• certified master gardener, south carolina
• leadership trainings and experiences
• wrote, produced, directed, and co-starred in a 9-person collaborative stage show, other successful productions
• grew up on a family farm (Christmas trees, no longer ours)
D R E A M S & G O A L S
• house, garden, community, and wilderness - creative learning spaces
• collaborating on highest possible visions for the Southern Appalachian bioregion
• create, construct, & produce stories that transform
• alignment between family, community, and purpose
• supporting resilient, eco-cultural transformation
• a just, peaceful, vibrant, and co-created world
F I N A N C I A L G O A L S
• time for creative pursuits with livelihood
• upgrade vehicle to a fuel-efficient 4x4 extended cab truck
• dedicated, separate studio for my art-music-creativity
• medicinal foods and tea garden, productive ecological sanctuary, conservatory on shared land
P A S S I O N S
• activating & engaging purpose & passion
• beauty, art, nature, intimacy, connection
• truth, clarity, mutual understanding
• right relationship, right action, right love
• dance, movement, & physical health
