Wandering Where I Am

Wandering Where I Am is a poetic journey of a young man going through a marital breakdown and encountering the europe he has studied, face to face. The book charts Thoms Andrews' travels through the Europe, himself, and the experience of his relationship coming to resemble the ruins in which he found inspiration. From the canals of Venice through the streets of London, Andrews contemplates loss, personal transformation, and experiences moments of clarity through encounters the art and the history of the places he finds himself in.

Wandering Where I Am is a poetic journey of a young man going through a marital breakdown and encountering the europe he has studied, face to face. The book charts Thoms Andrews' travels through the Europe, himself, and the experience of his relationship coming to resemble the ruins in which he found inspiration. From the canals of Venice through the streets of London, Andrews contemplates loss, personal transformation, and experiences moments of clarity through encounters the art and the history of the places he finds himself in. The spring and summer of 1989 was a time where walls, both litteral and figurative, were being torn down. In the context of this deconstruction of boundaries and identities, Andrews finds himself transversing the demarcations of who he thought he was, as the curtain of the assumptions that had confined him was being exposed as untenable. Writing with austere sincerity and without the confines of convention, Andrews presents the poems he was writing throughout his travels, both external and internal. The reader is invited to travel with Andrews through spaces sacred and mundane, and he charts his european grand tour of love in ruins.

Born in Vancouver, Canada, Thom Edmund Andrews has been an educator, an advocate, an emcee, and continues to be a student of life, a seeker, and an artist. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and a Masters degree in Educational Studies/Adult Education from the University of British Columbia. His love of words, language and the sensuality of all things led him to writing at an early age. After living and teaching Intercultural Communication and Critical Thinking in Tokyo for 12 years, he moved back to Vancouver in 2004. In 2006 he was diagnosed with with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. He lives with hand and arm tremors, multiple vision, and walks/shambles along with the aid of a cane. He wrote this book by painstakingly typing with one finger. He has a beautiful daughter who lives in Yokohama, Japan. He continues to travel and be inspired by his wanderings and is now once again in love and on the coast.