As the lights go out all over the world, be a shining beacon It is important everyone knows there is still good out there, and where to find them The darker it gets, the more you shine Do not lose your humanity

My heart aches for all the schoolchildren killed this year in US gun violence

Driving through the Anthropocene — Happy to be reading in the wonderful series POETEA June 3 in Wakefield, QC #poems #livereading #anthropocene

Gratitude to @writersfedofns.bsky.social for a week of recharging and renewal at Jampolis Cottage #fundy #minasbasin #highesttidesintheworld #newmoon #neaptide #amwriting #poets #neilandjanejampolis

This brief summary of yesterday’s letter is really good.

Spring springing in the backyard

If you shop at Loblaws and see this, please turn the package upside down. Help your fellow Canadians boycott the USA. 🇨🇦 🍁

Reading this now and cannot put it down. ❤️

Friends in Kingston Ontario, could I call on you for a small favour? I lost a pair of glasses downtown near St George’s Cathedral, and might have a lead on where they are but I can’t get to Kingston for a few days. If you can swing by that area today, let me know and I’ll give you the details? 🤞🤞🤞

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Thanks, Hakeem! [Letter calling for Hegseth's immediate firing.]

Frances Perkins.

Marina Hyde pulls no punches www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ouf, that's a bad line break. Especially when a significant part of your political identity is 'verb the noun.'

What is he hiding! What’s he hiding from! How is it even legal for him to be leader of the official opposition without security clearance!!

It's always wrong to vandalize personal property and that certainly includes Teslas, and also: your government is actively disappearing innocent people without due process, so, you know, that second one is taking up my empathetic bandwidth at the moment.

Spring morning moon . #robinsareback #redwingsareback #ticksareback

Happy Spring!

March 19, 2025

As an artist in 🇨🇦 I call on artists in all genres and arts patrons of all political persuasions to boycott the Kennedy Centre as long as Tr*mp and his minions are involved

Keep it up, DC. Boycott the Kennedy Centre. Show producers, cancel your bookings and move your productions to another of the many incredible DC venues.

Putting the Arctic Ocean closer to the center, this brings the Greenland Canada gambit into focus. It is a grab for power, money, water, and resources, also giving the US complete control over the Northwest Passage. Fentanyl and the border are a smokescreen for a much bigger project: theft.

Prime Minister Marc Carney 🇨🇦 - #cdnpoli I did it in two weeks. Why can't Poilievre do it after 3 years?

First attempt at moon photography and excited to learn more. Lunar eclipse March 14 2025, eastern Ontario

A great 🇨🇦 #litmag I’m happy to have a couple of #poems in. And what stellar company! @smcormond #suesinclair @manahilbanduk @ronnabloomroom Sneha Madavan-Reese Eve Joseph Jennifer Gossoo (how is this the first poem of yours I’ve seen??) @jockobenoit and the list goes on! Thanks, @malahatreview

This is a powerful little book! Vertebrata by [email protected], from Turret House Press

Abstract: Bro, do us dudes bro-bro to pump gun bulk at the war gym? How cool rad is that right? White Anglo-Saxon bros, my normal dudes, bro gym dudely ammo bro? In order to explore this dudeportant bronomena, I will require bro bro bigly bags of cash in small bills bro.

A gorgeous winter day in 🇨🇦

. "The shriveling husk of a waning moon..." —Angelina Weld Grimké #ForgottenPoets #blackhistorymonth #poetry

peace dove instead of an olive branch a broken wing #HaikuChallenge (wing) #senryu #haiku #3lines #micropoetry

Over the last week, protests against Trump have been held all across the country. And to this point they’ve received scant news coverage.

Elon Musk’s staffers have gained unauthorized access to sensitive government employee data by installing a server at the OPM. They now have access to USAJOBS, the federal hiring portal where applicants submit personal details such as Social Security numbers, home addresses, and employment histories.

Absolutely!

Evening blue

Devin Kelly making me rethink resilience as my personal word of the year “I’d rather a world that acknowledges fragility rather than resists it... It is in this world that we might see our connection to one another, rather than our various possibilities to exploit and be exploited.”

Winter afternoon

One for the year #poetry #Bach #GjertrudScnackenberg www.concreteandriver.ca/2024/12/arre...

A poem for the winter solstice. May we all carry light into the new year www.susangillis.ca/2020/12/sols...

Mood. Cross-stitch embroidery by @wendyenthomas.bsky.social

Please, if you're able, support Independent bookshops in the run up to Christmas. Their curation and knowledge will help you choose books that no algorithm can. And algorithms don't smile and chat to you either. @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social

The hard shapes of snow as found collected in the odd knot of a fallen tree…✨

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